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Carjacker Who Threatened To Inject Victims With Syringe Sentenced: Bucks DA Carjacker Who Threatened To Inject Victims With Syringe Sentenced: Bucks DA
Carjacker Who Threatened To Inject Victims With Syringe Sentenced: Bucks DA A convicted carjacker who brandished a syringe during a string of Bucks County thefts will spend up to two decades in prison, according to prosecutors.  The District Attorney's Office said Monday that Kevin O’Connell was sentenced to 11 to 25 years in prison. He previously pleaded no contest to multiple counts including robbery of a motor vehicle and terroristic threats, authorities said.  Investigators have said O'Connell stole an elderly woman's 2007 Toyota Camry in Bristol Borough in August 2022.  Prosecutors said the victim was walking back to her car after an …

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Police Car Crash Among 2 Accidents On Route 13 Less Than 90 Mins Apart Police Car Crash Among 2 Accidents On Route 13 Less Than 90 Mins Apart
Police Car Crash Among 2 Accidents On Route 13 Less Than 90 Mins Apart A crash involving a police car was among two accidents that occurred on Route 13 Monday, Oct. 3, less than 90 minutes apart. The first accident involving a pickup truck and sedan was reported around 6:50 p.m. at the Levittown Parkway intersection in Tullytown, fire officials and LevittownNow said. One victim was extricated from the vehicle. Then, around 8 p.m., a police Dodge Charger sustained damage to its front end when it collided with a passenger car in Bristol Borough, LevittownNow said. Injuries were not immediately clear. Click here for more from LevittownNow.

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Authorities ID Inmate Who Died By Suicide At Bucks County Jail: Report Authorities ID Inmate Who Died By Suicide At Bucks County Jail: Report
Authorities ID Inmate Who Died By Suicide At Bucks County Jail: Report The third inmate to die by suicide at the Bucks County Correctional Facility this year has been identified. Floyd Harper, 37, of Tullytown, hanged himself inside the jail, LevittownNow reports citing the Bucks County Coroner's Office. He was pronounced dead Sunday, July 3, by medical workers at the facility, said James O' Malley, Deputy Director of Communications. This is the jail's second death in 30 days and its third death this year.

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by Nicole Acosta
Obituaries
Bensalem Man Supplied Drugs That Killed Victim At Recovery House: DA Bensalem Man Supplied Drugs That Killed Victim At Recovery House: DA
Bensalem Man Supplied Drugs That Killed Victim At Recovery House: DA A Bensalem man has been accused of supplying the drugs that a 25-year-old woman overdosed and died on at a recovery house last summer, authorities announced. Matthew Derby Lavender, 25, was charged on Nov. 11 in the death of Nikki Lee Silva, Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub said. Tullytown Borough Police were dispatched to a home in the 400 block of Main Street in Tullytown around 10:45 July 2, authorities said. There, they found Silva dead -- along with three used and two unused baggies of heroin and/or fentanyl, the DA said. Lavender during an Aug. 20 police interview admitt…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Bucks County School Bus Driver Admits Sexually Assaulting Teen Boys, 1 His Own Foster Child Bucks County School Bus Driver Admits Sexually Assaulting Teen Boys, 1 His Own Foster Child
Bucks County School Bus Driver Admits Sexually Assaulting Teen Boys, 1 His Own Foster Child A former Bucks County school bus driver on Tuesday admitted to sexually assaulting a pair of teen boys -- one a foster child in his care, authorities said. John Michael Evans, 40, of Tullytown, abused the boys separately and repeatedly between January 2017 and June 2020, when the more recent victim reported the abuse to local police, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office announced. Evans began abusing a foster child in April 2020 shortly after the boy, then 16, was placed in his care, Deputy District Attorney Mary Kate Kohler said  in court Tuesday.  The abuse happened…

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by Cecilia Levine