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Man ID'd After Killing Himself Following 'Domestic Incident' In Hanover: Coroner
A 58-year-old man is dead after turning a gun on himself following a domestic incident on Thursday evening, authorities announced the following morning. George Bollack of Hanover was found dead in his home in the 900 block of Friar Run Road in Penn Township, area police detailed in a release. Officers had been called to the home for a report of a "domestic incident involving a firearm" at 5:12 p.m. on Feb. 15, as stated in the release. They arrived to investigate and found the resident dead. "There is no threat to the public as officers continue their investigation," the …
Police & Fire
Man With 7 Firearms Points Gun At Police Vehicle Outside Pennsylvania Polling Place: Officials
A 74-year-old man has been arrested following a bizarre incident involving a firearm at a polling location, police announced on Wednesday, Nov. 8. David Lassiter of Harrisburg was identified to police en route to a call of a reported theft and "possible person with a gun" at the polling station in the 1700 block of Derry Street around 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 7, as stated in the police release. When Lassiter had gone to the location earlier in the day to vote he mistakenly left his wallet behind, but when he returned to pick it up he claimed $100 was missing. Sometime during …
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Murder-suicide
: 'Strong Odor' Leads Police In PA To Dead Mom, Son
A Philadelphia woman and her son were found dead Tuesday night in what police are investigating as a possible murder-suicide, the department told Daily Voice. Officers were called to a home on the 200 block of Hickory Hill Road in the far Northeast for complaints of a "strong odor" around 6 p.m., authorities said. Inside, a 66-year-old woman was found dead in a second-floor bathroom and her 49-year-old son was found dead on the stairs, according to police. Investigators said both bodies were "badly decomposed" and no cause of death has been confirmed. A firearm was recove…
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Convict Nabbed For Deadly Shooting In Front Of School In Lancaster, Police Say (
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A 68-year-old man was shot dead outside of an elementary school on Monday, May 1, 2023, and his alleged killer was caught on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, authorities say. Israel Lugo, of Lancaster, died of multiple gunshot wounds and his manner of death has been ruled a homicide, according to the Lancaster County Coroner's Office. Edwin Ulysses Concepcion, a 22-year-old convict who completed six months of probation for driving under the influence on April 20, 2023, was identified as the suspected kill of Lugo on Tuesday, May 2, Lancaster City Bureau of Police announced the following day. …
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GOT HIM! Man Shot Girl In 'Pelvic Region' After She Denied Him Sex At PA Hotel Arrested: Police
UPDATE: Daronte Anthony Brown, 18, of Monroeville has been arrested without incident in connection with this shooting on Feb. 21, 2023, following an anonymous 911 tip, Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers announced on March 2, 2023. Updated court documents were unavailable when Daily Voice inquired that day. ORIGINAL: A 16-year-old girl and her 14-year-old friend were shot at while waiting for an Uber at a Pittsburgh area Red Roof Inn, because the older girl "refused to do sex stuff," with a Monroeville man, authorities detail quoting witnessing in the court documents obtained by Daily V…
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Convicted Shooter Flees From Court, Cumberland County DA Says
A 32-year-old man who attempted to shoot someone at their home in Wormsleyburg (only to discover that no one was home) was fled from the courtroom the day before he was convicted on Tuesday, January 24, authorities say. Joel Richard Kent of Carlisle was found guilty on charges of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Discharge of a Firearm into an Occupied Structure, and Carrying a Firearm Without a License in connection with a shooting that occurred in the 1st block of Campbell Place, Wormleysburg on Wednesday, August 25, 2021, around 12:15 p.m. The jury’s verdict ca…
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Felon Who 'Targeted' Teen In Deadly York Shooting Caught After Four Months On The Run: Police
After four months on the run, a felon wanted for killing a teenager in York has been arrested, police announced on Thursday, January 12, 2023. Tyrell Shyheim Christian, 28, is accused of shooting and killing 19-year-old barber and former high school football player, Ethan Mooney, on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, as Daily Voice previously reported. Christian was a passenger in a vehicle pulled over in a traffic stop for an expired registration in the first block of North West Street on Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 11:47 p.m., according to the updated release. "Durin…
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Loaded Guns Found At Two Pennsylvania Airports: TSA
Loaded handguns were found in carry-on bags at two Pennsylvania airports early in the morning on Wednesday, Dec. 7, authorities say. Both guns were found by Transportation Security Administration officers using x-ray machines, according to multiple releases by the TSA. At Harrisburg International Airport a Michigan resident was stopped with a .38 caliber revolver was loaded with five bullets. This is the ninth gun TSA officers have found at HIA, a record-high number caught at the airport in a single year in the 21-year history of TSA. The second gun was a loaded 9mm handgun fou…
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PA Man Caught With Gun At Newark Airport Makes 22 So Far This Year, TSA Says
Thanksgiving brought Newark Airport a near-dubious distinction when authorities seized the 22nd gun of the year at a security checkpoint, authorities said. Transportation Security Administration officers stopped a Delaware County, PA man with a 9mm handgun loaded with 13 bullets -- including one in the chamber -- in his carry-on bag in Terminal C, the agency's Lisa Farbstein said. The Newtown Square, PA resident was the third traveler nabbed with a gun at Newark just this month, Farbstein said. The 22 overall for the year ties the record for the most in a month there with five weeks left i…
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Anger Management Graduate Shoved Gun Into The Back Of Girl's Head At Central PA Subway: Police
A 30-year-old former convict and anger management graduate apparently still has some anger issues, as he got into a fight at a Subway restaurant and shoved a gun into the back of a girl's head, authorities announced on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Aaron David Babner, of Mechanicsburg, got into a "verbal argument" with another man at the Subway located at 90 Newberry Commons on Saturday, Oct. 1, Township police. Sometime during the incident, he left the restaurant, retrieved a firearm from his vehicle, then approached the 16-year-old girl, "and pressed the firearm to the back of h…
Police & Fire
Carjacker Who Victimized Mom, Daughter In Philadelphia Faces Federal Charges (
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A 20-year-old Philadelphia man is facing federal charges for carjacking a mother and daughter last month, authorities announced. Amir Harvey held a black handgun at the woman and her teenage daughter as they were getting ready to go to school on the 8900 block of Maxwell Place around 615 a.m. on Sept. 19, United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero said. The woman had started her car using a cell phone application on her cell phone and, as they walked outside to the driveway, they were approached by Harvey, authorities said. Harvey took the keys to the vehicle out of the victim’s purs…
Police & Fire
Man Sought By Police After Threatening To Kill Delco Ex-GF's Family, Burn Down House
Police in Delaware County are looking for a man who they say threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend's family and burn down their house. David M. Bodine, 41, arrived at the woman's Wildwood Avenue home drunk and demanded to get inside around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 9, East Lansdowne police said. He would not leave and assaulted the woman and her elderly dad, authorities said. That's also when Bodine threatened to kill the family and burn down their house, according to police. "The homeowner feared for her family's lives and discharged a legally owned handgun, striking Bodine in …
Police & Fire
Man Fatally Shoots Neighbor's Dog, Claims It Attacked His Own In Suburban Philly: Police
A Bucks County man shot his neighbor's dog, claiming it attacked his own dog during a walk on Friday, June 10, authorities said. Officers were called to a home on Midwood Lane, where they found a white American Bulldog shot to death in the front yard around 9:30 a.m., Bristol Township police said. The neighbor told police that he was walking his German Shephard past a house when the bulldog escaped and began attacking his dog. The man, who was licensed to carry, then pulled out a revolver and fired one shot at the bulldog, killing it, police said. It was unclear whether the man …
Police & Fire
Gunman Lured PA Teen To Park Then Shot Him In 'Cold Blooded Execution,' DA Says
An 18-year-old man is facing murder charges in the "cold-blooded execution" of a 15-year-old Delaware County boy, authorities announced. Mark Laird, of Boothwyn, is accused of killing Reuben Rosado, whose body was found in Henry Johnson Park on Township Line Road and Veterans Drive in Trainer, on Tuesday, March 15, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said. Officers who arrived at the scene on Wednesday, March 16 also discovered a fired cartridge casing and a cell phone. A witness — who identified Laird from a photo array — allegedly told polic…
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GOT HIM! Man Wanted For PA New Year’s Eve Triple Homicide Captured By US Marshals
A man who was wanted for killing two mothers and a 12-year-old boy on New Year’s Eve in Pennsylvania has been taken into custody, authorities say. Ronald Steave, 29, has been arrested on charges in connection with the killing Wanda “Nandi” Fitzgerald, Tatiana “Tay” Hill, both 28, and Denzel “Buddy” Nolan Jr., 13, inside of Fitzgerald’s home in the 7500 block of Hamilton Avenue in Pittsburgh on Dec. 31, 2021 around 4 a.m., Pittsburgh city police said at the time. Steave was apprehended in McKeesport on Thursday, Mar. 24 at 5:12 p.m. in a coordinated effort by the ATF, US Marshals Wes…
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FBI Charges NJ Man With Carjacking Woman At Gunpoint In Her Driveway
Federal authorities took over the case of a Newark man charged with carjacking a Montclair woman at gunpoint in her driveway. Andy Cook, 23, was captured by Essex County sheriff's officers shortly after he and a gunman accosted the victim on Melrose Place in the township's Estate section shortly before 7:30 p.m. last Dec. 6, authorities said. The victim told police she'd just returned home when Cook's crony pointed a gun at her, demanded she get out of the car and ordered her to leave her purse, phone and keys behind, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. The gunman ran away as Cook got …
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PA Man With AR-15 Beat 2 Police Officers: DA
A central Pennsylvania man has been arrested for beating a police officer during a chase--while having a visible AR-15 firearm, according to a release by the Lancaster County district attorney's office. The Quarryville police were called to the scene 300 block of West Fourth Street for suspicious activity on Aug. 5, 2020 around 8 p.m., according to a police release at the time. Dispatchers were told that a man had been chasing between the parking lots of the Rite Aid and Good's Store, but when the first officer arrived, they saw a quickly approaching van too. As soon as the officer compl…
Police & Fire
Man Points Gun At Another Driver In Road Rage Incident On I-83: Pennsylvania State Police
A man brandished a firearm at a passing driver during a road-rage incident on Interstate 83, according to a release by Pennsylvania state police. The man with the gun was driving a 2018 Kia SUV on interstate 83 northbound near mile marker 41.7 in Lemoyne, Cumberland County on Jan. 19 around 10:30 p.m., according to the release. No arrests have been made and police continue to investigate this incident.
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Feds: Impatient Repeat Felon Points Police To Smuggled Gun, Drugs
"We can just cut the chase bro -- the gun [is] behind the couch and there's drugs in the cabinet," an impatient six-time convicted felon told police who raided his North Jersey home, federal authorities said. "That sh*t belong to me," Jabbar Pierce, 41, told officers in his Penns Grove apartment who read him his Miranda rights and then recorded his every word, according to a criminal complaint. A federal judge ordered Pierce held following a video-conferenced initial court appearance Friday afternoon in Newark on charges of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Authorities in Salem C…
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Man Found Shot Dead In Central Pa Home: State Police
UPDATE: The man's death has been attributed to suicide as of Thursday afternoon, according to Pennsylvania state police trooper Kevin S. Kochka of troop J. ORIGINAL: A 28-year-old man was found dead inside of a home in central Pennsylvania on Tuesday, according to a release by Pennsylvania state police. The man was found in a home along North Main Street in Loganville Borough, York County on Jan. 4 at approximately 8:16 p.m., according to the release. He suffered a single gunshot wound to the head and a firearm was located at the scene, according to police. An autopsy has been sch…
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Serial Bank Robber Nabbed, Police In Central PA Say
A 43-year-old man who robbed two banks in Central Pennsylvania was in police custody, authorities said. James Bryant III is accused of showing a firearm and handing a note demanding money to the teller of the Citizens Bank on S. Baltimore Street in Carroll Township on Sept. 22, local police said. He fled the scene but, officers were able to obtain a Maryland license plate from the blue Dodge Avenger that was captured in the footage at the scene. Through investigation, the department was able to identify the owner of the vehicle, and subsequently the suspect of the robbery: Bryan…
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Man Kills Roommate During Argument, PA State Police Say
A man in Wiconisco Township fatally shot his roommate on Monday, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Robert Ernest Thomson, 56, of the 200 Block of Williamstown was arrested after he called 911 stating he shot his roommate. Police arrived to find Thomson in the yard waiting from them on Monday around 1:30 p.m. His roommate James Leshko, 39, was found dead at the scene. Where he was found and his official cause and manner of death have not been released. An argument is thought to have led to the shooting. The two men were living with Leshko’s mother, no word has been released on her…
Police & Fire
Teen Gunman Charged In Lancaster Killing, Authorities Say
A teenager who police say fatally shot a 23-year-old man in Lancaster last month was apprehended Thursday. Thanks to video footage and eyewitness statements, investigators were able to identify 14-year-old Elijahuwon A. Brown as the person responsible for shooting Rolando Rivera to death in the 500 block of Third Street around 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 27, according to the Lancaster Bureau of Police. Brown is seen on video surveillance in the area of Manor Street -- where Rivera is also walking -- just before the shooting. Brown then walks west following Rivera, but on the opposite side o…
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Homicide Suspect Nabbed 5 Months After Shooting In Harrisburg
A 29-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a murder in March, on Monday-- nearly five months after the shooting. Tyree Rashaun Smith of Harrisburg was arrested on charges are in connection to the death of Christopher Hill on March 6 in the area of North 3rd and Division Streets, in uptown Harrisburg, police say. Smith has been charged with the following: F1 Criminal Homicide F3 Firearms Not To Be Carried Without A License F1 Conspiracy - Criminal Homicide Possession Of Firearm Prohibited He is being held in the Dauphin County prison without bail per state law on hom…
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Armed Man Who Terrorized Couple At Delaware Water Gap Headed To Fed Pen
UPDATE: A Wayne man must spend more than a year and a half in federal prison for an assault and fierce struggle that occurred after he pulled a pellet gun on a couple who'd been swimming at the Delaware Water Gap. Jeffrey A. Mulcahy, 59, must serve just about all of the 21-month sentence he received Tuesday because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Mulcahy took a deal from the government rather than face trial, admitting last fall that he assaulted the couple in the Kittatinny Point area on the New Jersey side of the river in September 2019. Mulcahy initially walked off after…
Police & Fire
Man Wanted In Berks Quadruple Murder Apprehended By FBI In Florida After 2 Years On The Lam
A man wanted in a Berks County quadruple murder was apprehended by FBI agents in Florida after nearly two years on the lam, according to authorities. An FBI Tampa SWAT team on Tuesday apprehended Pedro Sanchez-Laporte at a home in Lake Alfred, Florida, Michael Driscoll, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division, and Berks County District Attorney John Adams announced. Sanchez-Laporte was allegedly a member of the Trinidad Drug Trafficking Organization, a violent Berks County drug dealing organization responsible for six murders in six weeks in Reading, including the 2018 qu…
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