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These Men Showed Up Hoping For Sex With Minors In Undercover OA Sting, Authorities Say These Men Showed Up Hoping For Sex With Minors In Undercover OA Sting, Authorities Say
These Men Showed Up Hoping For Sex With Minors In Undercover OA Sting, Authorities Say Authorities in Berks County have released mugshots of four of the eight men busted in an undercover operation for trying to have sex with children. The Berks County DA's Human Trafficking Task Force seeded advertisements across "websites commonly used for sex trade," offering "sexual relations with minors at a predetermined location in Berks County," prosecutors said in a release.  Throughout the course of the two days, eight individuals showed up to the rendezvous site and were arrested, DA John T. Adams said.  These suspects were arrested and charged with the followin…

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by Mac Bullock & Cecilia Levine
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Officer Shoots Knife-Wielding Man In Berks County: DA Officer Shoots Knife-Wielding Man In Berks County: DA
Officer Shoots Knife-Wielding Man In Berks County: DA A knife-wielding man was shot by police Wednesday, March 30 in Berks County, authorities said. Brecknock Township police responded to a 911 call of a man suffering from a mental health crisis in Mohnton around 7:45 a.m., Chief County Detective Michael J. Gombar said. Officers found the unnamed 66-year-old man "holding a large knife" on Butlers Lane, they said. He didn't listen when an officer told him to drop the knife and lunged at them, police said. The officer then used a taser device to try to stop the man, but it didn't work, so they shot him, Gombar said. The bullet struck the…

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by Nicole Acosta