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Coatesville Plane Crash: NTSB Investigation Reveals First Findings
Federal investigators have released a preliminary report on the plane crash that killed a school administrator in Chester County early this month. Octorara school board president Sam Ganow was the only one onboard the twin-engine Grumman American GA-7 that crashed near Coatesville on the afternoon of Feb. 1, Daily Voice reported. In the preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety Board, officials said the plane was "the subject of a restoration project" that was being documented on YouTube "for the purpose of returning the airplane to service and reselling i…
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YouTube Drone Pilot Summoned To Federal Court For Reckless Flying In PA
A Philadelphia man is accused of breaking Federal Aviation Administration rules while flying his drone around the city, according to a release from the US Attorney's Office. From December 2019 to the present, federal prosecutors claim Michael DiCiurcio flew his drones "unlawfully and unsafely" — including at night and dangerously close to buildings and landmarks like the William Penn statue. DiCiurcio operates a YouTube channel called PhillyDroneLife, where he films and uploads "drone footage from sunrises to sunsets with the beautiful city skyline as the backdrop," accordi…
Police & Fire
Justin Mohn Was Armed At National Guard Base, Authorities Say
The Levittown man accused of beheading his government employee father and uploading the video evidence to YouTube was armed with a loaded gun when he was arrested at Fort Indiantown Gap on Tuesday night, Jan. 30, according to officials. Justin Mohn had purchased the gun, a 9mm SIG Sauer pistol, the day before he allegedly killed 68-year-old Michael F. Mohn at their shared home, said Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn at a Friday press conference. Investigators believe Mohn, 32, shot his father in the head before dismembering him, the DA said. The younger Mohn was gone when poli…
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Penn State Alumnus Accused Of Beheading Gov't Employee Dad Sued US Feds For $10M: Court Docs
A 32-year-old man who is accused of beheading his dad and showing the head in a bizarre YouTube video — also attempted to sue the US government over his student loans. Justin Mohn allegedly left his dad Michael F. Mohn's head in a cooking pot in a bedroom after showing it in a YouTube video on Tuesday, Jan. 30, police detailed in an affidavit of probable cause obtained by Daily Voice. Many years before this deadly behavior, Mohn did some unusual things, including filing a federal suit against Progressive Insurance in Colorado. In the suit, he claims that he was hazed and forced out o…
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Levittown Man Beheads Gov't Employee Dad On YouTube, Arrested In Fort Indiantown Gap: Affidavit
A 32-year-old Levittown man beheaded his dad and posted an approximately 14-minute-long video showing his dad's head on YouTube, authorities announced late Tuesday night. Justin Mohn beheaded his government employee dad, 68-year-old Michael F. Mohn, in a bathroom at his parents' home in the 100 block of Upper Orchard Drive, in Middletown Township, according to area police. Authorities were called to the home when his mom, Denice Mohn, found the bloody body in the first-floor bathroom around 7 p.m. on Jan. 30, the police detailed in the affidavit of probable cause obtained by Da…
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Videos Show PA Woman Mutilating, Torturing Animals
A Delaware County woman is facing charges for torturing animals in footage she shared online. Anigar Monsee, 28, of Upper Darby, mutilated and tortured the chickens, frogs, and bunnies, in footage shared to YouTube and other social media platforms, multiple news outlets including 6abc and NBC10. Monsee on Jan. 19 was charged with four counts of aggravated cruelty to animals by means of torture, court records show. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 5. NBC10 says Monsee identified herself to authorities as the person in the videos at the time of her arrest. Upper Darby Police Supe…
Lifestyle
Rapper Gives Small PA Hometown Shoutout On Major Podcast That Reaches Millions Of Listeners
He can rap, but he's got no sense of direction. At least that's what Cheltenham native, comic and actor Lil Dicky, who you may know as David Andrew Burd, said on this week's episode of "Armchair Expert." "The thing that I'm the least good at in life is geography, sense of direction, knowing where things are," the 35-year-old rapper said in the first 10 minutes of his interview with Monica Padman and Dax Shepard. "You can plop me down in my hometown of Cheltenham Pennsylvania, if I didn't have a GPS I'd be sleeping in my car even if I'm an eight-minute drive from my home." In 2020, F…
Lifestyle
Popular Youtuber 'Gets Shocked' Climbing Philadelphia Skyscraper In Viral Video
A popular YouTuber climbed the spire of Philadelphia's tallest building, only to get shocked — and not by the view. DyingLlama, whose 530K subscribers watch him climb tall buildings around the world on YouTube, filmed his recent climb to the very top of the spire at One Liberty Place. The building is a Philadelphia landmark, standing 1,090 feet above the streets, and its "silver spire serves the Metro Philadelphia as the signal source for major TV broadcasters and several FM radio stations," according to the One Liberty Place website. Which might explain why DyingLlama repeatedly…
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YouTuber's Ill-Gotten Car Collection, Jewelry To Be Auctioned Off In Maryland
The beloved car collection of a YouTube star who made his living while showcasing his hot rods is up for grabs following his conviction for an elaborate piracy scheme. Baltimore will be the place to be for gearheads and car collectors on Friday, Oct. 13, when the US Marshals auction off the multi-million dollar car collection of "influencer" Bill Omar Carrasquillo - also known as "Omi In A Hell Cat - after he was sentenced to more than five years in prison. Earlier story - Feds Bust NJ YouTuber In Multi-Million-Dollar TV Pirating Ring Carrasquillo, a New Jersey native, was sentenced earlie…
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: YouTube Video Shows Rapper Assaulting Bergen Shop Rite Worker, Harassing Customers
One way to pretty much guarantee you'll be arrested is to record a crime and post it on YouTube -- in high def, no less. Just ask drill music rapper Nas Ebk. Nasir Valenzuela, who has produced prank videos that push the limits of legality, joined two accomplices in harassing and intimidating customers and employees at the ShopRite in Rochelle Park while recording it. Some of their targets laughed it off. At least one seemed intimidated. Others simply ignored them. One worker, in particular, wasn't having it, though. The video shows Valenzuela, 19, of the Bronx, snatching the stock cler…
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Inside Pennsylvania Family's Chilling Suicide Pact
The Daub family's bodies were arranged in a straight line across the backyard of their York County home when police arrived at the scene on Wednesday, Jan. 25, they said. Notes inside of their Loman Avenue home in West Manchester Township detailed exactly how Morgan, 26, and her parents, James, 62, and Deborah, 59, planned on dying, police said in a statement emailed to Daily Voice. And the chilling scene reflected just those, police said: Deborah killed James, Morgan killed Deborah, and then Morgan — who according to PennLive died holding a sword that read "Sword of the Lord — then killed …
Police & Fire
PA YouTubers ID'd As Victims Killed In Weekend Crash
The two Reading men killed in a car accident Sunday ran a YouTube channel with more than 1.5 million subscribers, according to loved ones. Christoper C. Schaffer, 25, and Patrick A. Phyrillas, 22, both of Reading, were passengers in a vehicle that collided with a tractor-trailer on Jan. 29, Daily Voice has previously reported. The pair worked on a YouTube channel called "Schaffrillas Productions," along with Patrick's brother James, who was also injured in the crash, loved ones said in a GoFundMe campaign. James' condition as of Tuesday, Jan. 31 was not clear. View…
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PA Mom Who Gave Daughter Fentanyl Posted Bizarre YouTube Video Before Murder-Suicide Attempt
The day before a Pennsylvania mom gave her 8-year-old daughter fentanyl and opiate-laced apple juice (as detailed in court documents obtained by Daily Voice) she posted a bizarre YouTube video. The 8-year-old girl is now in emergency custody of relatives after 29-year-old Skye Contance Naggy allegedly attempted to commit murder-suicide using fentanyl she purchase "on the dark net" because "God told her they would die soon," police detail in court documents obtained by Daily Voice on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. While searching for Naggy and her daughter on Oct. 25, the police found the laced a…
Lifestyle
PA Singer Deserved More From Judges On 'The Voice,' Fans Say
Viewers are turning to social media to express their frustrations after a Pennsylvania singer on NBC's "The Voice" received only one chair turn during her blind audition. Hillary Torchiana, 34, of West Chester, sang Adele's "Easy on Me" during the Monday, Oct 3 episode and got interest from seasoned judge Blake Shelton. Hillary Torchiana performs Adele's "Easy on Me" during "The Voice" blind auditions. The Voice Though all of the judges applauded Torchiana at the end of her performance, one commented on how she didn't fully agree with Torchiana's song choice. "I think an Adele song is…
Police & Fire
Pregnant Virginia Woman Had Pleaded On YouTube To Be Saved From Husband — Now She's Dead
"Even when I reached out for help, nothing was done at all." These are the words 27-year-old Dana Alotaibi, of Virginia, said through tears in a recorded call with the National Suicide Awareness Hotline posted to YouTube last January. Seven months later, Falls Church's Alotaibi was stabbed dead by the very man she had been fearful of, Bryant Tejeda-Castillo, on the H-3 freeway in Hawaii, according to those who knew her and police. Tejeda-Castillo was charged with second-degree murder and being held on $1 million bond. Alotaibi's mom, Natalia Cespedes, believes that her daughter w…
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: Driver Charged In Wild NJ Road-Rage Crash Caught On Dashcam
A driver who survived a horrific crash on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Alpine following a miles-long viral-video encounter has been charged, authorities confirmed. Michael Brabham, 27, of Stony Point, NY told authorities that the Jan. 24 crash on the northbound parkway in Alpine was "caused by having a road rage incident with another vehicle," PIP Detective Sgt. First Class Raymond E. Walter said Friday, Feb. 4. YouTube user Racerwong.Shooterwong posted a dashcam video of Brabham's 2012 Honda Accord tailgating a Ford F-150 in the left lane before suddenly veering across the right l…
Police & Fire
Newtown Police Seek Road Rage Driver Caught On Video Throwing Woman To Ground
Police are seeking the public's help locating a road rage driver caught on surveillance cameras assaulting a woman in Newtown last month. Officers responded to the PetSmart parking lot on South Eagle Road around 9:30 a.m. Nov. 21 on a report of a road rage incident, Newtown police said in a Nov. 30 release. A nearby camera captured the incident, in which a man driving a white Tesla Model X got out of his car and threw a woman to the ground during an apparent parking dispute, according to a video posted by the police department on YouTube. The man is then seen fleeing the scene. He is desc…
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Undercover PA Man Helps Catch 9 Alleged Predators Attempting To Lure Children Using Dating Apps
A group of alleged child predators were apprehended by police in connection with a scheme to meet up with minors they meet via dating apps on Tuesday, according to police. The accused, allegedly thought they were talking to children on dating apps and were trying to meet up for sex, according to police. Musa Harris, 41, who calls himself the "Luzerne County Predator Catcher,” is not a police officer, but he messages people on dating apps claiming to be underage, police say. This is something Harris, a father with a young child, has been doing full-time since March 2020, according to an …
Lifestyle
PA Mom Training For Canceled NJ Marathon Keeps It Real On TikTok
Erin Azar isn't your average fitness influencer. Yes, the 37-year-old Pennsylvania mom documents her runs on TikTok as she trains for the New Jersey Marathon -- which has since been canceled. But no, she doesn't only show the glamorous parts of training. There's nothing really glamorous about Azar's runs at all -- that's the way she likes it. She says that's what makes her relatable. "Welcome to another installment of a slightly overweight person who drinks too much beer," says Azar of Kutztown -- who goes by Mrs. Space Cadet on TikTok. Her videos show her foggy glasses and her sweaty cr…
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Gabby Petito Portrayed Idyllic Life On Instagram Before Disappearance
Scroll through Gabby Petito's Instagram page and you'll see a sea of smiling faces, sunshine, and idyllic landscapes. The Long Island native portrayed an inspiring life of travels across the US in her cherished 2012 Ford Transit van -- just days before her mysterious disappearance. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gabby (@gabspetito) The life that 22-year-old Petito showcases online, however, might be a stark contrast to the experiences she had leading up to her disappearance on Aug. 30. Bodycam footage released by police in Ut…
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: Pennsylvania Teen Leaves 'America's Got Talent' Judges Speechless With Queen Cover
A 14-year-old Pennsylvania native has taken social media by storm with his performance of "Somebody to Love" by Queen on "America's Got Talent." Racking up more than 6 million views on Facebook and nearly 2 million views on YouTube as of Thursday, Dylan Zangwill represented Exton in the Tuesday, July 20 episode of the show. We’re thinking Dylan Zangwill is going to have to start talking about himself a little more after this awesome Audition. 🤩 Posted by AGT Auditions on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 Zangwill's vocal and piano skills made three of the four judges stand in applause. Only Simon…
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Peppy Pennsylvania Pug's Obituary, Funeral Photos Go Viral
A peppy Pennsylvania pug who recently passed away is gaining national attention for his heartfelt obituary, penned by his loving owner. Dexter Beville, 7, died on April 27 in the arms of Allentown owner, Tim Beville, Jr., his obituary says. The pug was honored with a funeral, which Beville shared to Facebook. The post had been shared more than 82,000 times and received 51 million likes as of Sunday afternoon. Dexter's obituary remembers him as a "sweet and loving" part of the family, who loved to sing along to YouTube videos and play with toys. "Dexter was born in Bethlehem, PA to Galaxy…
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Asian-American Business Leaders Create New Initiative To Fight Racism, Discrimination
“...We are tired of being treated less than American…” So begins an open letter in the Wednesday, March 31, 2021 edition of The Wall Street Journal signed by over 1,000 American-Asian business leaders. Some of the names (or at least their companies) you'll probably recognize: Jerry Yang, Eric Yuan, and Steve Chen, for instance, the co-founder of Yahoo, CEO and founder of Zoom, and co-founder of YouTube, respectively. But there are hundreds more who have made an impact in their fields and communities. In an email sent to supporters, David Lu, a managing partner at Hyphen Captial and one …
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