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Stalking Ex-BF Making Death Threats Attempts Chester County Home Break-In, Police Allege
A Delaware man is sought by police in Pennsylvania for several incidents of stalking, harassment, making death threats, and an attempted break-in, according to multiple police releases. Juan Cesar Castro-Fernandez, 36, of Wilmington, DE is charged with stalking, harassment, and related counts, according to borough police. His ex-girlfriend and child called the police after finding a broken window in the living room of their home in the 400 block of Juniper Street on Oct. 26, authorities said. The woman told officers that she had been having ongoing issues with Castro-Fernandez a…
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PA Stalker Who Watched Girl Sleep Arrested: Cops (
Update
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A man who repeatedly broke into a Pennsylvania home and watched a girl sleep has been arrested, police announced. Jefferson Mejia Gonzalez surrendered to authorities on Wednesday, Dec. 27, police in Coatesville said. Tiffani Szabara, who captured Gonzalez on home surveillance footage multiple times, says he is the family's neighbor. "I’m so relieved," Szabara tells Daily Voice. "My daughter was definitely excited and relieved that it’ll never happen again." The story began circulating when Szabara posted footage of a burglar to her Facebook page pleading for help. She said the man h…
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KY Jelly, Murder-Suicide Kit Found On 'Crazy' Man Who Stabbed Estranged Wife In PA: DA
A King of Prussia man was arrested in the Walmart parking lot on Sunday during the beginning stages of a would-be murder-suicide, according to prosecutors. Geoffrey Kay-Conway was taken into custody after stabbing his estranged wife multiple times in the leg, said the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office. The 52-year-old had been released on a $5,000 bond last month after he was charged with stalking and harassing his wife in violation of a court-granted Protection From Abuse order, the DA said. Since then, authorities believe he had been plotting to abduct, rape, and k…
Police & Fire
NY Man Who Assaulted Female Passenger On Flight To Newark Gets 2 Years, No Parole
UPDATE: An upstate New York man who admitted assaulting a fellow passenger on a flight from Denver to Newark must spend two plea-bargained years in federal prison. Ryan Manuella, 30, of Erie County, “moved to a vacant center seat next to a female passenger, who was sitting in a window seat” on the April 16, 2021 flight, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Manuella, who didn't know the woman, then "touched the passenger without her consent," Sellinger said. "The victim then yelled at him and left the row of seats," the U.S. attorney said. Defense attorney Andrew Olesnyck…
Police & Fire
Women Called 304+ Times By Stalker Ex-BF, Police In Central PA Say
A woman received hundreds of phone calls in under two hours from her stalking ex-boyfriend, police alleged in an announcement on Monday, Nov. 6. Omar Gaines, 45 of Carlisle, was arrested the day after the incident "near the victim's residence," the Carlisle police said. Officers were called to a reported break-in at Gaines' ex-girlfriend's home in the 300 block of North East Street, Carlisle at 11:39 on Oct. 30. During the police investigation, they learned that Gaines had arrived at her home at 5:07 a.m. "and remained for over (an) hour pacing back and forth near the sid…
Police & Fire
PA Man Posing As Stalker Was Trying To Catch GF Cheating Without Starting Argument: DA
Well, that backfired. A Pennsylvania man posed as a stalker, sending himself and his girlfriend threatening text messages, all as a ploy to try to find out if she had been cheating, authorities said. Jamey Dumeus, 30, of Stroudsburg, has been charged with filing a false police report, unsworn falsification to authorities, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, false reports to law enforcement, and obstructing administration of law or other governmental function, following an investigation by the Criminal Investigations Division of the Monroe County Office of the Dis…
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Couple Robs Hotel Guest At Gunpoint In Central PA —
Twice
: Police
An accused armed robber is on the loose after a couple held up a hotel in Central Pennsylvania — twice, authorities announced on Thursday, July 20, 2023. "Female guests at the Red Roof Inn reported that they were robbed at gunpoint," on June 12 and July 17, the Swatara Township police stated in the release. On Wednesday, July 19, 45-year-old Jamie Francis Bruder of Steelton was arrested on charges of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery, the police explained and court records confirmed. His alleged literal partner in crime, 36-year-old Ashley Renee Barrick of Har…
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Stalker Puts GPS On Victim's Car, Chambersburg Police Say
A 34-year-old woman has been charged after she was caught using a GPS to stalk someone in Chambersburg, police announced the same morning she was arrested. Emily Sommerville was arrested in the first unit block of West Liberty Street in Chambersburg on Monday, May 15, 2023. She was charged with a misdemeanor for stalking after a GPS device was found on the victim's vehicle which police say she, "placed on a vehicle to follow the victim's movements." Additional information was unavailable at the time of publishing.
Police & Fire
'PlugwalkJoe' Admits Unprecedented Twitter Hack That Included Musk, Kardashian, Biden: Feds
A 23-year-old British citizen who hacked the Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian and Bill Gates, among others, pleaded guilty in federal court to a host of related charges as part of a deal with the government. Joseph James O'Connor -- also known as "PlugwalkJoe" -- technically faces up to 77 years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines but will likely get somewhere between 10 to 20 years when all is said and done. The Liverpudlian hacker admitted during a plea hearing in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday, May 9, that he committed one of the largest high-pro…
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Nailed It: PA Stalker Dumps Nails On Road Repeatedly, Police In Delaware Say
A Pennsylvania man dumped nails and screws in Delaware neighborhoods while targeting a specific resident, authorities believe. Scott Taylor, 31, of West Grove, is charged with felony criminal mischief and stalking, along with several misdemeanor offenses in Delaware, say New Castle County police. Authorities had received reports of a driver in a black pickup truck intentionally dumping sharp objects on the roadway entrances to "residential communities" in Hockessin, New Castle police previously said. The suspect vehicleFacebook/New Castle County Police Investigators pulled surveilla…
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Reading Man Shot By Law Enforcement In LanCo. After Using Flamethrower Says 'I Was Doing Drugs'
A Reading man who survived a law enforcement-involved shooting that previously left him in critical condition has pleaded to all charges in the Lancaster County Courthouse on Thursday, March 16, 2023, according to the district attorney's office. Zachary Robert Gilbaugh, 39, of the 1100 block of New Holland Road, pleaded guilty before Lancaster County Judge Thomas Sponaugle who accepted the plea and sentenced him to 8 to 20 years in prison. “I regret what I did,” Gilbaugh said during the proceeding. “I was doing drugs. I apologize.” Gilbaugh was wanted on multiple warrants …
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Lititz Dad Threatens To Share 'Intimate Images' Of Woman He Stalks, Police Say
A dad on probation for making terroristic threats was arrested on Valentine's Day for threatening to share "intimate images and videos" of a woman that he was stalking, Lititz Borough of police announced on Thursday, Feb 16. Oren Harsanyi, 48, of Lititz, "engaged in a course of conduct against a person, an adult female, in which he threatened to send intimate images and videos of that person to other people," the police say. He was charged with a misdemeanor for stalking, although police say they also filed a charge for harassment. He has been held in the Lancaster County Priso…
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Estranged Wife Raped, Mount Joy Husband Caught At Lancaster Courthouse, Police Say
A Mount Joy husband has been arrested at the Lancaster County courthouse for rape— among other charges, months after an incident with his estranged wife, authorities announced on Friday, January 20. **The Following Details Could Be Disturbing To Some Readers** Damon Seth Skrimcovsky, 39, broke into his ex-wife's home and stood over her while she was sleeping— holding her cell phone, so she could not call 911, then he proceeded to sexually assault her in the evening hours on November 13, 2022, the police say following a two-month investigation. He was charged with Burglary, Rape, Inde…
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Bryan Kohberger Stalked His Victims For Weeks, Was Meticulous About DNA Trail: Report
The 28-year-old criminology student accused of killing the four University of Idaho students stalked them for weeks leading up to the slayings and then was meticulous about not leaving fingerprints behind, according to a new report by the Daily Mail. Bryan Kohberger's cell phone pings "followed [the victims'] every move for weeks," a source told the outlet, noting their locations matched up on multiple occasions. Kohberger also allegedly wore gloves in public places following the killings, the source tells Daily Mail. While Kohberger was arrested during a raid of his family's Pocono Mountai…
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Ex-Trump Stalker Gets 6 Years, No Parole, For Threatening Secret Service Agent, Vets Officer
UPDATE: A former longtime stalker of former President Trump must spend nearly six years in federal prison for threatening to assault a Secret Service agent and "shoot up" an officer at a VA hospital in New Jersey. Frank Monte, 52, of Passaic County, NJ, must serve out just about all of the sentence because there's no parole in the federal court system. Monte, of the Oak Ridge section of West Milford, "repeatedly called the emergency line of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Police at the VA Lyons hospital campus" in Somerset County, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said on Tuesd…
Police & Fire
Former Pennsylvania Officer Charged With Stalking And Harassing Ex-GF
A former Bethlehem police officer has been charged with stalking and harassing another police department employee — someone he used to be in a relationship with, authorities announced. Noah Klingborg, 27, is expected to turn himself into the Bethlehem City Police Department on Tuesday afternoon, Northampton County District Attorney Terry Houck said in a press release. Klingborg, of Bethlehem, is accused of stalking and harassing a civilian employee of the Bethlehem City Police Department that he had a relationship with between December 2021 and ended in June 2022, the release said. Af…
Police & Fire
Woman Nearly Blinded By Ex-Lover In Philadelphia Attack: Feds
A Philadelphia man is accused of stalking his ex — a federal employee — and burning her face with a corrosive substance, nearly blinding her in one eye while she was on her way to work, federal authorities announced. Victor Ortiz, 45, followed his girlfriend as she walked to her office in Philadelphia on May 4, US Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero said. Before she reached the office, Romero threw a "caustic substance" at her face and torso, according to authorities. The assault left the victim temporarily blind in her left eye, scarred across her body, and in severe pain, …
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Son MedEvac'd After Stabbing By 75-Year-Old Dad, Pennsylvania State Police Say
'I brought him into this world. I might as well take him out of it," 75-year-old, James Westley Suman Jr. told authorities when they asked if he wanted to kill his son when he stabbed him on Wednesday, Nov. 2, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Pennsylvania state police. State police in Kittanning were called to the reported stabbing in the 1100 block of Washington Street, Parks Township around 7:40 p.m., according to a release by the police. Police arrived to find that the elder Suman had stabbed his son in the heat of an argument, the release details. His 53-year-old so…
Police & Fire
PA Man Violates Protection Order By Locking Himself In Ex-Wife's Bedroom: Police
A Pennsylvania man who had repeatedly stalked his ex-wife and trespassed on her property was arrested again when he was found locked inside her bedroom, hours after being served with a protection from abuse order, authorities said. An investigation into Robert Brennan, 82, began on March 23 when his ex-wife's court-appointed guardian told him and Lower Moreland police he was no longer welcome at the incapacitated woman's Woodland Road home, local police said. Brennan, who had a spare key, entered the house several times before the locks were changed on March 24, Lower Morelan…
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Pregnant Woman Punched In Stomach, Stabbed With Fork, Beaten With Baseball Bat In PA: Police
A pregnant woman was brutally attacked over several days before the man who beat her returned— showing up outside her home in a ski mask, authorities say. Derry Township police were first made aware of abuse after Luis A. Espinal-Rivera, 20, choked and punched the pregnant woman in the stomach on Apr. 9, 2022— they arrested him on Apr. 13 but he made bail on the 21, according to a release by the department and court documents. Espinal-Rivera's violence towards the pregnant woman continued after he was released, supposedly, in an attempt to "intimidate and harass her into dropping the previ…
Police & Fire
Most Charges Dropped Against Ex-Philly Homicide Detective Accused Of Sexual Misconduct: Report
Phillip Nordo once faced 35 charges, but after one accuser died and another can't be located, he's facing 11, Audacy reports. The former Philadelphia homicide detective is still accused of rape, stalking, sex, assault and more, after being arrested on misconduct allegations in 2019 The 20-year veteran has been accused of threatening and sexually assaulting witnesses in connection with his investigations. Click here for more from Audacy.
Police & Fire
UPS Driver Used Job To Creepily Stalk Victims In PA: Authorities
A 52-year-old Pennsylvania man was sentenced to time behind bars in part for using his job as a UPS driver to stalk his victims in a disturbing way, authorities said. Thomas F. Wainman Jr., of Lititz, was found guilty by a jury of stalking his neighbors in multiple incidents spanning from May to December 2020, according to a release by the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office. Wainman shined spotlights into the victim’s home, peered through their windows, watched them while they were out at their pool, and followed the victims after seeing them at a gas station, the DA's Office …
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PA Stalker Sent Creepy Texts Of Victim's Whereabout After Placing Trackers On Car: Police
A Philadelphia man placed tracking devices on a car in Lancaster— then sent the victim creepy messages about their exact locations, according to local police. Gregory F. Simmons Jr., 48, had come to the area and placed the trackers on the car parked in the 400 block of Parkwynne Road around noon on Wednesday, Apr. 6, according to Manheim Township police. The victim called the police when Simmons texted them "several times about the different locations that they had been to," police say. The victim also found the trackers on their car, according to the release by the police. A criminal …
Police & Fire
PA Man Threatened To Leak Estranged Wife's Nudes During Separation: Police
A Pennsylvania man was arrested on accusations he harassed his estranged wife and threatened to leak "explicit photos" of her if she didn't pay him during their separation, authorities said. Kevin Wilbur's wife was staying with her parents while the two were going through a separation, Upper Gwynedd Township police said. Beginning in early 2021, the Doylestown man broke into the home, causing his wife and her parents to fear for their safety, authorities said. He was told he was no longer allowed at the property. Following the attempted break-in, Wilbur began to send h…
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PA Woman Drunk Texting Ex Charged With Stalking: Police
A Pennsylvania woman drunk texting her ex-boyfriend has been arrested, according to the police. Susquehanna Regional police were called to a domestic dispute in the first block of Pajill Dr in Marietta Borough on Thursday, Mar. 3 around 3 p.m., according to a release by the department. Tracy Elizabeth Ford, 37, of Columbia, "had been drinking and left the victim's residence and had been contacting him continuously," Susquehanna Regional regional police say. When the police located Ford she was "under the influence of alcohol," the release states. She was arrested for stalking, harassment,…
Police & Fire
Maryland Mom Killed By Stalker In Murder-Suicide: Report
A 50-year-old woman was killed by her stalker in a murder-suicide in Montgomery County, MD overnight, according to police and NBC Washington. Michelle Carter and Maurice Harris, 51, were found dead by responding officers around 9:05 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 28 on the 18900 block of Highstream Driver in Germantown, county police said. R.I.P. Michelle Carter, she was my son's Mom's bestie, and was in the room when Ghabe was born. No means no. If someone doesn't want to be with you, walk away with hurt feelings, but leave them alive. Posted by Vincent Smith on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 Friends…
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PA Creeper Busted With OnlyFans User's Panties On Roof Of Her New England Home: Authorities
A Pennsylvania man tracked down a woman he met on OnlyFans and drove six hours to her New Hampshire home, where he was busted on the roof of her home with her underwear, authorities said. Mauricio Damian-Guerrero, 20, of Bensalem, Bucks County — whose Facebook page shows he previously lived in Jersey City, NJ — drove 400 miles to an Airbnb in Portsmouth before breaking into the victim's home on Wednesday, Feb. 9, Somersworth police said. Damian-Guerrero hid in the woman's attic, took pictures of her while she was sleeping and then tried tagging her with a tracking device, WCAZ and Phil…
Police & Fire
PA Man Had 'Hit List' Of Family Members He Wanted To Kill Ahead Of Stepfather's Murder: PD
A Pennsylvania man who made a "hit list" of family members he wanted to kill, was charged with murdering his 78-year-old stepfather, authorities in Bucks County said. Brian Joseph Carey, 41, was arrested late Wednesday, Feb. 16, hours after detectives with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office and the Bristol Township Police Department named him as a person of interest in the death of Joseph Michael Jakimowicz, of Bristol Township. Carey was charged with one count of homicide, possession instrument of crime, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, stalking, and unauthori…
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Multiple Warrants Issued For Man Who Stole Car, Stalked Someone In Central PA: Police
A man is wanted for multiple charges on multiple warrants according to a release by police in central Pennsylvania. The East Earl Township Police Department is searching for Zachary Robert Gilbaugh, 38, who is wanted for Stalking, Criminal Trespass, Burglary, Motor Vehicle Theft and numerous other offenses, according to police. These charges stem from an incident on Dec. 17, 2021, according to the release. Gilbaugh's last known address in Honey Brook, police say Anyone with information on Gilbaugh's whereabouts is asked to contact the East Earl Township Police Department at 717-355-5302.
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PA Councilman Arrested For Peeping, Prowling, Harassing Ex-GF: Report
A recently sworn-in councilman has been charged for harassing an ex-girlfriend, according to a report by PennLive citing an affidavit of probable cause filed by Pennsylvania state police. Robert “Bob” Lance Buhrig Jr., 52, of Mechanicsburg, has been charged months after he had a "bad" break up with his ex at the start of 2021, but continued to attempt to contact her, the outlet reports citing the affidavit. Things escalated when a man was spotted on surveillance videos peeping into her windows -- and Buhrig later today police he came to her home-- claiming he wanted to apologize for the …
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NJ Man Once Accused Of Flinging Feces At Neighbor's House Arrested Again
A noisy steam pipe has again triggered a Ho-Ho-Kus man who once stored his own excrement and shot it at his neighbor's house, authorities said. William J. Krywos, 49, has had a history of run-ins with the law, including causing a mid-1990s blackout that affected more than 32,000 Bergen County customers. More recently, Krywos had a series of conflicts with no fewer than three different residents who've lived next door to his Duncan Road home over the years -- always in the winter, police said. The way defense attorney Frank Lucianna once explained it, "there is a pipe on his neighbor’s hous…
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