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Officers Shoot, Kill Alleged Burglar In Schuylkill County: PSP Officers Shoot, Kill Alleged Burglar In Schuylkill County: PSP
Officer-Involved Shooting In Skook: What We Know State troopers are investigating the deadly police shooting of a suspected burglar in Shenandoah Borough, authorities said in a release.  Shenandoah and Mahanoy City police were called to 309 West Coal Street for a break-in around 12:40 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 11, according to PSP.  The property owner told them he had seen a masked person walking inside with a large knife on the vacant home's security cameras, troopers wrote.  When officers went inside, the person was hiding under a bed upstairs, according to state police.  "As they were moving the bed, the person lunged …

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
'Let's Hit Five Below Next': Thief Gets Text From Accomplice While In Police Custody, Cops Say 'Let's Hit Five Below Next': Thief Gets Text From Accomplice While In Police Custody, Cops Say
'Let's Hit Five Below Next': Thief Gets Text From Accomplice While In Police Custody, Cops Say A woman accused of stealing from retail stores in Delaware County received an inconvenient text from her alleged accomplice while she was in police custody, authorities claim.  State troopers were dispatched to the Kohl's at Granite Run Mall in Middletown for a theft in progress on May 4, they wrote in a release. While officers were en route, the suspect hopped into a Ford Focus, went to the nearby Boscov's, and stole more merchandise, police said.  She was arrested at Boscov's and identified as 28-year-old Nye'jierra Drummond of Wilmington, Delaware, troopers wrote.  While …

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
PA Man Sets House On Fire With Police Inside: Report PA Man Sets House On Fire With Police Inside: Report
PA Man Sets House On Fire With Police Inside: Report A Pennsylvania man is police custody after authorities say he set his house on fire while state troopers were inside, according to a report from CBS 21. John Andrew Young, 59, of Montour County, is charged with three counts of attempted murder, making terroristic threats, and related offenses, state court records show.  Troopers were dispatched to a home on R & H Avenue in Liberty Township at around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2 for a reported domestic disturbance, the outlet wrote.  When officers were inside, investigators say Young retreated to a back room and started a fire …

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by Mac Bullock
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NJ State Police Seize Driver Of Stolen Ambulance On Garden State Parkway NJ State Police Seize Driver Of Stolen Ambulance On Garden State Parkway
NJ State Police Seize Driver Of Stolen Ambulance On Garden State Parkway A man just released from a detox program was captured by state troopers on the Garden State Parkway after he stole an ambulance from outside Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus early Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. Daniel Grant Wyres, 37, of Marlton got into the unattended ambulance and drove off from the East Ridgewood Avenue facility at 12:50 p.m., Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton said. The ambulance company was notified and began tracking the rig, he said. The ambulance was stopped less than 15 minutes later on the Garden State Parkway near Exit 157 in Elmwood Park,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Support Surges For PA Mom Whose Gun-Wielding Husband Was Shot, Killed By Police Support Surges For PA Mom Whose Gun-Wielding Husband Was Shot, Killed By Police
Support Surges For PA Mom Whose Gun-Wielding Husband Was Shot, Killed By Police Support is surging for a Pennsylvania mom whose estranged and gun-wielding husband was shot and killed by police on Tuesday. Brianne Shuller said that she separated from 34-year-old Mitchell Shuller, in January due to safety concerns, PennLive reports. He had apparently been diagnosed with congestive heart failure and suffering hallucinations and mental illness.  Everything came to a head on Tuesday, Brianne explained, when Shuller began shooting into neighbors' homes on the 7000 block of Fishing Creek Valley Road in Harrisburg. State troopers at the scene pleaded with Shuller t…

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by Cecilia Levine