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Alleged Straw Gun Buyer Put 20+ Illegal Firearms On Pennsylvania Streets, AG Says Alleged Straw Gun Buyer Put 20+ Illegal Firearms On Pennsylvania Streets, AG Says
Alleged Straw Gun Buyer Put 20+ Illegal Firearms On Pennsylvania Streets, AG Says A Philadelphia man is accused of putting nearly two dozen illegal guns in the hands of criminals, according to prosecutors.  Michael Bickle is charged with making 23 "straw purchases" of firearms, said the Attorney General's Office in a release Friday, Dec. 1.  Authorities believe the illegal sales date back to 2014 but said most of the straw guns — 21 of them — were purchased in 2022.  None of the guns were reported lost or stolen before Bickle allegedly sold them to people ineligible for firearm ownership, the AG's Office said.  Six of the guns have since t…
COLD CASE: $5,000 Reward Offered In PA Woman's Sudden Disappearance COLD CASE: $5,000 Reward Offered In PA Woman's Sudden Disappearance
Cold CASE: $5,000 Reward Offered In PA Woman's Sudden Disappearance Forty-five years after a Scranton woman vanished, Pennsylvania State Police are on the case.  Authorities say Joanne Williams was 22 years old the last time she was seen on December 7, 1978.  Williams left her East Gibson Street home that night to attend a dance class at a studio in Chinchilla some six miles away, according to investigators. She left the studio around 10 p.m. and was never seen again.  Police said they found her car, a red 1977 Datsun 200 SX with white racing stripes, about a week later, unlocked and abandoned across town at the intersection of&nbs…
Bucks County Gun Trafficker Learns His Fate Bucks County Gun Trafficker Learns His Fate
Bucks County Gun Trafficker Learns His Fate A convicted gun trafficker in Bucks County will spend five to 10 years in state prison, authorities announced.  Bashir T. Shakir, 25, of Yeadon, was convicted of twelve felonies connected to straw purchases of firearms that were later uncovered in criminal investigations across the mid-Atlantic, said Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub in a statement Wednesday, Nov. 9.  The investigation began in December 2020, when two guns Shakir purchased turned up on the streets of Philadelphia, the DA said. Another turned up in Wilmington, Delaware and a fourth in Millville, New …