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Pipersville, PA

COLD CASE: Bucks County Killer Still Sought After 56 Years COLD CASE: Bucks County Killer Still Sought After 56 Years
Cold CASE: Bucks County Killer Still Sought After 56 Years More than 50 years after she was beaten to death, Alice Swope's killer eludes police.  The 82-year-old was found beaten to death in her Dark Hollow Road home in Pipersville on Jan. 25, 1968, according to state troopers.  She was discovered by a Bell Telephone repairman who had come to check the line and a neighbor who let him in, the Allentown Morning Call reported in a 1974 retrospective.  They found the phone off the hook downstairs and Swope dead in her bed upstairs, the newspaper wrote. She had been beaten with a broom handle and then a standing coatrack, the Mornin…
Devoted Lehigh Valley Dad Dies Suddenly, 33 Devoted Lehigh Valley Dad Dies Suddenly, 33
Devoted Lehigh Valley Dad Dies Suddenly, 33 Devoted father Justin David Sykes died unexpectedly at his Lehigh Valley home on Friday, June 3. He was 33. Born in Morristown, Justin grew up in Wilson, where he graduated from Wilson Area High School in 2007, his obituary says. Justin had previously worked as an experienced pipe fitter with Worth & Company in Pipersville, according to his memorial. Known for his one-of-a-kind wit and sense of humor, Justin was always bringing happiness to those around him. Above all, Justin was a devoted father and loved spending time with his three children, Noah, Levi, and Sydney. In addition to …
Woman Who Killed Man She Thought Was Deer Sentenced: Bucks DA Woman Who Killed Man She Thought Was Deer Sentenced: Bucks DA
Woman Who Killed Man She Thought Was Deer Sentenced: Bucks DA A 27-year-old woman who police said killed a Bucks County man she mistook for a deer last summer has been sentenced to three to 10 years in Pennsylvania state prison. Charlotte M. Kleckner, of Doylestown, pleaded guilty to accidents involving death or personal injury and drunk driving in the Aug. 2021 hit-and-run crash in Plumstead Township that killed 61-year-old Delfino Colop-Alvarado, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said. Colop-Alvarado was walking on the 4700 block of Stump Road when he was struck by Kleckner's car about an hour before 12:20 a.m. when police arrived, au…
PD: Doylestown Woman Charged In Hit-Run Crash That Killed Bucks Man PD: Doylestown Woman Charged In Hit-Run Crash That Killed Bucks Man
PD: Doylestown Woman Charged In Hit-Run Crash That Killed Bucks Man A Doylestown woman was charged in a hit-and-run crash that left a Bucks County man dead overnight Saturday, authorities said. Officers responding to the 4700 block of Stump Road in Plumstead Township around 12:20 a.m. on a report of a pedestrian struck by a fleeing car found a 61-year-old Pipersville man with "fatal injuries," according to the Plumstead Township Police Department. The hit-run driver -- identified as 27-year-old Charlotte Kleckner -- was spotted less than a mile away from the crash scene, police said. Kleckner was arraigned on one count of accidents involving death or …
Bucks County Teen Dies In Post Prom Crash Bucks County Teen Dies In Post Prom Crash
Bucks County Teen Dies In Post Prom Crash A Central Bucks High School East student died in a crash that occurred in the hours following the school's senior prom Saturday, authorities said. Nicholas Mannino, 18, of Pipersville, was riding in a car that lost control and overturned then struck several trees on a rural Pike County road around 1:20 a.m., the Bucks Courrier Times reports. Mannino was rushed to Geisinger Medical Center in Scranton, where he was pronounced dead at approximately 4 a.m., the outlet said citing Lackawanna County Coroner Timothy Rowland. Pennsylvania State Police were investigating.
Plumstead PD: 31-Year-Old Woman Faces Assault Charge In Violent, Drunk Domestic Dispute Plumstead PD: 31-Year-Old Woman Faces Assault Charge In Violent, Drunk Domestic Dispute
Plumstead PD: 31-Year-Old Woman Faces Assault Charge In Violent, Drunk Domestic Dispute A Pipersville woman was arrested after brutally beating a man in a drunken domestic dispute last weekend, authorities said. Christina Bennett, 31, of Pipersville, was charged with simple assault and more following the March 6 incident in Plumstead, local police said. Officers responded to a home in the 5800 block of Bradshaw Road on reports of a domestic dispute when they found a man with scratches and fresh wounds, bleeding and alone, police said. Officers also found several broken items around the home, and a "highly intoxicated" woman -- later identified as Bennett, police said. A…
Police: Bucks Driver, Accomplice Charged In Wawa Hit-Run That Injured 85-Year-Old Man Police: Bucks Driver, Accomplice Charged In Wawa Hit-Run That Injured 85-Year-Old Man
Police: Bucks Driver, Accomplice Charged In Wawa Hit-Run That Injured 85-Year-Old Man A Bucks County driver and her accomplice were in police custody nearly a year after she collided with an 85-year-old Doylestown man and left him injured in a local Wawa parking lot where she quickly fled the scene, authorities said. A witness provided police with the car's registration after the April 24, 2020 crash at the Easton Road store in Pipersville, Plumstead police said. The registered owner, Alexandria Herrmann, 25 of Hellertown, fabricated a story to police saying she did not know who the operator of the car was, police said. After a nearly year-long investigation, detectives wer…