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Police Officer Hurt In Bucks County Crash: Authorities Police Officer Hurt In Bucks County Crash: Authorities
Police Officer Hurt In Bucks County Crash: Authorities A Perkasie police officer was briefly hospitalized and a driver is in custody after a two-car crash on Sunday night, Nov. 19, according to officials.  The officer was headed north on Arthur Avenue near the Perkasie Library around 9:30 p.m. when a southbound Volkswagen Tiguan crossed into his lane, authorities said.  After an "offset head-on collision," the officer was treated at Grandview Hospital and released, said the department.  Police said the driver of the Tiguan, a 29-year-old Telford woman, "displayed signs of intoxication at the scene" and was arrested aft…

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by Mac Bullock
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Bensalem Police ID Human Remains In 1995 Cold Case Bensalem Police ID Human Remains In 1995 Cold Case
Bensalem Police ID Human Remains In 1995 Cold Case The human remains found behind a diner in Bensalem over 26 years ago have been identified, authorities announced. The adult skeletal remains, which were found on Sept. 18, 1995, in the woods behind the Club House Diner on Street Road, belong to Merrybeth Hodgkinson, according to the Bensalem Police Department. She was unclothed and wrapped in a plastic tarp, police said. The death was classified as a homicide by unspecified means and investigators said that the body had been there for two to three years. At the time, police only knew the victim was an adult white female between the a…

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by Nicole Acosta
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PA Man Offers $300, Travels To South Jersey For Sex With 14-Year-Old Girl, AG Says PA Man Offers $300, Travels To South Jersey For Sex With 14-Year-Old Girl, AG Says
PA Man Offers $300, Travels To South Jersey For Sex With 14-Year-Old Girl, AG Says A Pennsylvania construction employee was arrested on felony charges for allegedly traveling to South Jersey for sex with a 14-year-old girl, authorities said. Robert Reinhart, 52, of Telford, PA was one of 31 men arrested in a statewide crackdown of online child abuse titled "Operation 24/7," the New Jersey Attorney General’s office announced Wednesday. Reinhart allegedly texted an undercover detective who was posing as the adult sister of a fictitious 14-year-old girl, authorities said. He agreed to pay the older sister $300 to have sex with her "younger sister," autho…

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by Nicole Acosta
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Predators, Pedophiles And Perverts: Horror Stories Abound In NJ Online Child-Sex Abuse Roundup Predators, Pedophiles And Perverts: Horror Stories Abound In NJ Online Child-Sex Abuse Roundup
Predators, Pedophiles And Perverts: Horror Stories Abound In NJ Online Child-Sex Abuse Roundup A mail carrier, a train conductor and a retired corrections officer are among 31 men charged amid a massive roundup that produced some horrifying stories about online child sex abuse in the age of COVID, New Jersey authorities announced Wednesday. One of them offered money and other prizes through a social media “game” that he created to convince underage girls to send him nude photos, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Another got victims between 7 and 15 years old to send him sexual photos, then pressured them to send more by threatening to share those he had online, he said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: PA Man Accused Of Sexually Abusing Girls 8, 10 Says He Was Possessed By Devil Police: PA Man Accused Of Sexually Abusing Girls 8, 10 Says He Was Possessed By Devil
Police: PA Man Accused Of Sexually Abusing Girls 8, 10 Says He Was Possessed By Devil A Telford man who told authorities he was possessed by the devil was slapped with various assault and abuse charges Tuesday after police say he sexually abused two girls ages 8 and 10, and took upskirt photos of a 16-year-old girl, as first reported by NorthPennNow. Allen Kraus, 39, was identified by police when they received a report from Bucks County Children and Youth on April 12 regarding inappropriate photos found on his phone, the criminal complaint says. An ensuing investigation found he took upskirt photos of a 10-year-old girl and also had "indecent contact" with an 8-year-old girl…

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by Nicole Acosta
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MontCo DA: Men Spent Hours Trying To Cover Up ODing Friend's Death Before Dumping His Body MontCo DA: Men Spent Hours Trying To Cover Up ODing Friend's Death Before Dumping His Body
MontCo DA: Men Spent Hours Trying To Cover Up ODing Friend's Death Before Dumping His Body Two Montgomery County men are accused of spending three hours trying to cover up their friend's overdose death instead of summoning help, then dumped his lifeless body -- dripping wet -- outside of a local hospital, authorities said Thursday. Joshua Benner, 28, of Telford, and Ronald Shock, 35, of Boyertown, are being held liable in the May 7, 2020 death of Ramon Morales, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele, and Pottstown Police Chief Mick Markovich said. Morales was found by police laying on a grassy area between the emergency room entrance and parking lot of Pottstown Hosp…

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by Nicole Acosta