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Negotiated Deal Lands Bensalem Drug Dealer, Fatal Hit-Run Christmas Driver In PA State Prison Negotiated Deal Lands Bensalem Drug Dealer, Fatal Hit-Run Christmas Driver In PA State Prison
Negotiated Deal Lands Bensalem Drug Dealer, Fatal Hit-Run Christmas Driver In PA State Prison A 21-year-old man whose drug dealing scheme came to light while out on bail in a 2021 fatal hit-and-run Christmas crash has been sentenced to several years in Pennsylvania State Prison. Kevin Michael Baker Jr., 21, of Bensalem, pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in the crash that killed 65-year-old John Dugan as he crossed State Road in Bristol Township to go to a Christmas party on Christmas Eve in 2021, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office announced. While out on bail, Baker was arrested by Bensalem Township Police for a series of illegal narcotics purchases, particular…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Obsessed Patient Admits Beating Chiropractor Dead, Assaulting Investigating Detective Obsessed Patient Admits Beating Chiropractor Dead, Assaulting Investigating Detective
Obsessed Patient Admits Beating Chiropractor Dead, Assaulting Investigating Detective A 23-year-old Bucks County man admit beating his chiropractor to death and assaulting a detective investigating the case, authorities announced. Joseph O'Boyle, of Bensalem, took a guilty plea in the fatal Nov. 2, 2020 beating of 64-year-old Dr. James Sowa in his Hulmeville Road home office District Attorney Matt Weintraub said. He ultimately entered an open guilty plea to criminal homicide, criminal trespassing, and possession of an instrument of crime before President Judge Wallace H. Bateman Jr. He also pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated assault and one count …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Bucks Man Gets State Prison Time For 3 Violent Attacks Of Ex-GF Bucks Man Gets State Prison Time For 3 Violent Attacks Of Ex-GF
Bucks Man Gets State Prison Time For 3 Violent Attacks Of Ex-GF A Bucks County man who beat and choked his ex-girlfriend three different times in a seven-month period was sentenced to two to four years in state prison, authorities sad. Patrick Dando, 35, of Bensalem, pleaded guilty Thursday to aggravated assault, strangulation, and theft by unlawful taking in the most recent attack, which he committed while he was out on bail for the first two, according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. He pleaded guilty to strangulation and simple assault for each of the first two attacks on the victim. The first attack was on Aug. 7, 2020, in…

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by Nicole Acosta