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MTV's Bam Margera Arrested At Radnor Hotel: Reports MTV's Bam Margera Arrested At Radnor Hotel: Reports
MTV's Bam Margera Arrested At Radnor Hotel: Reports More trouble with the law for Bam Margera. West Chester native and reality television star Brandon "Bam" Margera was arrested in Radnor Township early on Wednesday, Aug. 9, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.  Citing an anonymous police source, the newspaper said Margera was issued a citation for public intoxication and disorderly conduct.  Officers were called to the Radnor Hotel for an argument between a man and a woman before sunrise, the Inquirer reported. The police source said Margera was "intoxicated" at the scene and taken to the station, per the newspaper.  He was r…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
WALMART ASSAULT: Dog Thrown By Irate PA Man, Police Say WALMART ASSAULT: Dog Thrown By Irate PA Man, Police Say
Walmart Assault: Dog Thrown By Irate PA Man, Police Say A Walmart shopper was bitten by an intoxicated man's dog during a domestic dispute inside a Pennsylvania store, authorities announced on Monday, July 17, 2023.  John Herbert Gouse Jr. had a "heated argument" with his wife at the Walmart located at 60 Noble Boulevard, Carlisle around 2:30 p.m. on July 10, according to police. "Other Walmart shoppers and employees attempted to diffuse the situation," police said but "Gouse began yelling and acting aggressive(ly) towards the shoppers and employees." A man shopping at the store stepped between Gouse and an employee and was bitten by …

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Guy Doing Loud Burnouts In Dead Of Night Charged Hours Earlier For Public Intoxication: Police Guy Doing Loud Burnouts In Dead Of Night Charged Hours Earlier For Public Intoxication: Police
Guy Doing Loud Burnouts In Dead Of Night Charged Hours Earlier For Public Intoxication: Police A Central Pennsylvania man who police say was publicly intoxicated was charged twice in less than eight hours. Jonathan M. Beck, of East Earl, was found walking through traffic on Main Street in East Earl Township when officers arrived for a well-being check around 7:45 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 29, local police said. Cops learned he was under the influence of a controlled substance, they said. Beck was issued a citation for public drunkenness. Then around 2:45 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 30, the same man was reportedly doing loud burnouts in his vehicle on the 1300 block of Cedar Avenue…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
Intoxicated PA Parents Assaulted Officers In Front Of Young Children, Police Say Intoxicated PA Parents Assaulted Officers In Front Of Young Children, Police Say
Intoxicated PA Parents Assaulted Officers In Front Of Young Children, Police Say Two parents are facing charges of public intoxication and assault on a law enforcement officer after police arrested the belligerent duo right in front of their own young children, authorities in Chester County say. West Whiteland police responded to the Exton Square Mall on reports of intoxicated subjects last Saturday, Sept. 25, Police Det. Scott Pezick said. There they found Mercedes and Joseph Ritter, ages 29 and 37, respectively, with their two young kids, Pezick said. Joseph became verbally abusive and Mercedes tried resisting arrest, the detective said. Mercedes knocked the officers…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
'Dangerously Insane': Facebook Slams PA Man Accused Of BBQing Dog, Lighting $100 Bills On Fire 'Dangerously Insane': Facebook Slams PA Man Accused Of BBQing Dog, Lighting $100 Bills On Fire
'Dangerously Insane': Facebook Slams PA Man Accused Of BBQing Dog, Lighting $100 Bills On Fire A 49-year-old Pennsylvania man was "incredibly intoxicated" and burning $100 bills in a fire pit after shooting his dog then putting it on a hot barbecue grill, recent news reports say. Northampton Township officers responding to reports of an open fire found Nikolay Lukyanchikov sitting on a bench at his Holly Knoll Drive home near a fire pit and burning couch with a gun setting $100 bills on fire with lighter fluid, according to an affidavit obtained by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Once the fire was out, officers noticed an animal -- later determined to be Lukyanchikov's dog -- badly burne…

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by Nicole Acosta & Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
PA Man Arrested For Calling Woman 45 Times In One Day, State Police Say PA Man Arrested For Calling Woman 45 Times In One Day, State Police Say
PA Man Arrested For Calling Woman 45 Times In One Day, State Police Say A man with a history of abuse was charged with harassment after calling a woman 45 times in one day, according to Pennsylvania State Police in Cumberland County. Brian Knouse, 44 of Mechanicsburg, PA, was arrested in South Middletown Township on April 26 after attempting to contact a woman 45 times in a 24-hour period, police say. Knouse went to the woman’s home even after she told him to stop contacting her, says PSP. Knouse has a pattern criminal behavior, having previously plead guilty to charges in York and Cumberland counties for public intoxication, DUIs, harassment and assaults st…

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by Jillian Pikora