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PA Man Kidnapped Four 'Females,' Held Them In Shipping Container: State Police PA Man Kidnapped Four 'Females,' Held Them In Shipping Container: State Police
PA Man Kidnapped Four 'Females,' Held Them In Shipping Container: State Police Four women were abducted, threatened with weapons, and sexually assaulted in a shipping container in the Poconos this week, according to state troopers.  Police said they received a phone call about a possible kidnapping involving a Ford SUV around 10:45 a.m. on Tuesday. They tracked the vehicle down at the Mount Pocono Walmart and found one victim with suspect Isaiah Rogers-Keeney, troopers said. Another victim was spotted leaving the store with a second suspect, Davaun Carlon Jackson, according to authorities.  Investigators believe Jackson and Rogers-Keeney…

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by Mac Bullock
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Alleged Police Impersonator's Victims Sought By Actual Police In Pennsylvania Alleged Police Impersonator's Victims Sought By Actual Police In Pennsylvania
Alleged Police Impersonator's Victims Sought By Actual Police In Pennsylvania Luzerne County residents may have been duped by a fake cop, authorities warn.  Paul Dolan of Scranton is accused of claiming to be a police officer during an interaction on Old Route 115 in Lehman on Dec. 13, township police said.  Dolan allegedly approached a driver with a flat tire near the intersection with Church Road and tried to get him to move his car into a patch of dirt, authorities said.  He "made several statements about being a police officer" and mentioned multiple local departments and stations where he "works out of," police said. Dolan also claimed to ha…

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by Mac Bullock
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Explosives Found Inside Lehigh Valley Home Explosives Found Inside Lehigh Valley Home
Explosives Found Inside Lehigh Valley Home State police paid a visit to a Northampton County home early Saturday and left with two explosives, authorities say.  Troopers were called to a residence on Flafair Drive in Williams Township around 10:45 a.m. on May 20 for a report of a found grenade, they wrote in a release. At the scene, a second grenade was eventually discovered.  Both weapons were found to be "inert," and the Bethlehem Bomb Squad took possession of the explosives, troopers said.  No one was injured and police say no charges will be filed in connection with the find. 

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by Mac Bullock
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Chesco Shooting Suspect Nabbed By US Marshals, Authorities Say Chesco Shooting Suspect Nabbed By US Marshals, Authorities Say
Chesco Shooting Suspect Nabbed By US Marshals, Authorities Say A man who is accused of shooting another in the chest in Coatesville last month has been taken into custody by US Marshals, officials say.  Matthew Rodgers, 25, was arrested in Downingtown on Thursday, March 23, Pennsylvania State Police announced. Authorities did not say exactly when or where he was apprehended, though court filings show he was arraigned at noon and remanded to the Chester County lockup in lieu of a $1 million bond.  Rodgers was sought in connection with the Feb. 6 shooting of a 22-year-old man, Daily Voice has reported. Coatesville police were dispatched to…

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by Mac Bullock
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Flyer Seized With Six Gun Stashed In Suitcase Said She Didn't Know It Was There: Newark TSA Flyer Seized With Six Gun Stashed In Suitcase Said She Didn't Know It Was There: Newark TSA
Flyer Seized With Six Gun Stashed In Suitcase Said She Didn't Know It Was There: Newark TSA A traveler at Newark Airport claimed she didn't know she had a .38 Special stashed behind the lining of her suitcase, authorities said. The loaded revolver was "artfully" concealed in the Orange, NJ, woman's carry-on, Transportation Security Administration Spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said.  A TSA officer staffing a checkpoint X-ray monitor alerted Port Authority police, who seized the six shooter and the woman, Farbstein said. It was the 11th gun picked off at a Newark TSA checkpoint so far this year, she said. “This is a fine example of how we use the technology available to us to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'I Think She's Dead': Son Charged With Killing Mom, 79, With Fire Iron Called 911 'I Think She's Dead': Son Charged With Killing Mom, 79, With Fire Iron Called 911
'I Think She's Dead': Son Charged With Killing Mom, 79, With Fire Iron Called 911 UPDATE: A man charged with brutally bludgeoning his 79-year-old mother with a fireplace poker called 911 to report the crime, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Responding police officers found Patrick Maupai, 40, on the lawn of the New Milford Avenue home that he shared with his mother, Linda Maupai, across the street from Dumont High School. He was still on the phone talking with the dispatcher shortly before midnight Sunday, the prosecutor said. Maupai had admitted hitting his mother with the fire iron, Musella said. He also told the dispatcher that he believed she was dea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'Sororicide': FL Woman Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Younger Sister In Little Ferry 'Sororicide': FL Woman Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Younger Sister In Little Ferry
'Sororicide': FL Woman Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Younger Sister In Little Ferry UPDATE: A 27-year-old Florida woman was charged with murder for killing her younger sister with a point-blank gunshot to the head in their mother's Little Ferry home, authorities said. Angielly Dominguez, 27, was headed south on the New Jersey Turnpike in her boyfriend's Ford Mustang early Tuesday evening, March 22, when State Police nabbed her in Cherry Hill, nearly 90 miles from the scene of the sororicide, law enforcement sources confirmed. There were five guns in the trunk of the vehicle, which her boyfriend had reported stolen along with the weapons, they said. Dominguez had driven …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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PA Airport Makes TSA's Top 10 List Of Most Unusual Finds At Airport Security Checkpoints PA Airport Makes TSA's Top 10 List Of Most Unusual Finds At Airport Security Checkpoints
PA Airport Makes TSA's Top 10 List Of Most Unusual Finds At Airport Security Checkpoints Chainsaw, cleaver, meth burrito-- these are not new weapons in an update of the classic board game Clue, but part of a top ten list of "catches" at airport security checkpoints around the country in 2021, according to the US Transportation Security Administration. Pennsylvania is never one to be left off such a unique list of items. You can see where one of the Keystone State's airports rank in the top ten list below: Chainsaw – New Orleans International Airport Wine holder – Sacramento International Airport Fireworks – Syracuse Hancock International Airport Machete – Reagan Washington Nat…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Philadelphia Man Arrested In 7-Eleven Armed Robbery, South Jersey Police Say Philadelphia Man Arrested In 7-Eleven Armed Robbery, South Jersey Police Say
Philadelphia Man Arrested In 7-Eleven Armed Robbery, South Jersey Police Say A 44-year-old man from Philadelphia man has been arrested in connection with a hold-up at a South Jersey 7-Eleven, authorities said. John Grubbs was charged by Evesham police with first-degree robbery, aggravated assault, theft and several weapons offenses, police said.  On Nov. 2, 2020, at 5:15 a.m.,  Evesham police responded to the 7-Eleven at 2 East Main St., for an armed robbery. A man demanded money from the store's clerk  while brandishing a handgun, police said. The employee complied and gave the suspect cash in the register, they said. The man fled on foot…

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
Several Students Assaulted At Lehigh University Fraternity, Police Say Several Students Assaulted At Lehigh University Fraternity, Police Say
Several Students Assaulted At Lehigh University Fraternity, Police Say Police are on the hunt for five suspects accused of assaulting multiple Lehigh University students at a fraternity house over the weekend, authorities said. Officers responded to the Theta Chi fraternity house around 12:45 a.m. Sunday, Lehigh Unversity police chief Jason Schiffer said in a HawkWatch alert. As the suspects fled the scene, they "made threats of weapons and possibly returning," Schiffer said. Police were looking for five Hispanic males: one in black pants and a red jacket, one in blue jeans and a black shirt, one in blue jeans and a black sweatshirt and baseball cap, one…

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by Nicole Acosta