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High-Speed Chase Ends In Massive Gas Line Explosion: Lancaster DA
A driver who turned a simple traffic stop into a high-speed police chase, ultimately crashing into a home and causing a gas line explosion, has been sentenced to state prison, authorities announced Monday, March 17.
Waleem Felder, 46, of Philadelphia, was sentenced to three years and nine months to 12 years in state prison on Tuesday, March 5, after being convicted on multiple charges, including risking catastrophe and fleeing or attempting to elude an officer, according to the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office.
The chaos began in November 2023 when Lancaster police attempted to p…
Lancaster Girl Repeatedly Raped; Family Threatened, Beaten By, Florida Man
A Florida man who violently raped a young girl for years in Lancaster County and threatened to kill her family if she spoke out will spend up to 80 years in Pennsylvania state prison, prosecutors announced.
Ricardo Vilorio-Hernandez, 56, of Tampa, was sentenced to 40 to 80 years in prison on Tuesday, Feb. 18, by Lancaster County Judge Thomas Sponaugle, who called his crimes “horrible” and said he “deserves a long sentence.” The judge also classified him as a sexually violent predator.
A jury convicted Vilorio-Hernandez on Oct. 17, 2024, of 13 charges, including rape of a child, forcible rap…
Mother, Teen Son Arrested For Lancaster Shots Fired Incident: Police
A Lancaster mother and her teenage son were arrested in connection with a December 2024 shots fired incident, Lancaster City police announced Friday, Jan. 10, 2025.
Officers responded to reports of gunfire on the 400 block of Green Street at 4:26 p.m. on Dec. 13, 2024, police said. Following weeks of investigation, authorities identified 39-year-old Lindsay Colon and her 15-year-old son, Amari Poole, as suspects in the case, according to the Lancaster City Bureau of Police.
Colon and Poole were taken into custody on Friday morning, police said. Poole, who is being charged as an adult, faces…
PA Mom Charged For Giving Kids Guns, Teen Son Charged In Cousin's Murder
A Lancaster County mother is accused of giving her teenage sons access to guns used in a September shootout, police announced on Friday, Nov. 15. One of those sons has also been charged in his cousin's murder.
Brandi Whisman, 42, of New Providence, was arraigned Tuesday, Nov. 14, on charges of endangering the welfare of children and corruption of minors. Investigators said she gave her sons permission to take the guns whenever they wanted, providing a key and telling them where the firearms were located.
Her sons, Joshua Whisman, 16, and Alexander Whisman, 18, are accused of firing …
PA Man Who Killed Teen At Sunoco Gets Life In Prison 'Plus', DA Says
A man is going to spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing a teenager at a Sunoco over an unpaid phone bill, the Lancaster District Attorney's office announced on Friday, Jan. 26.
Carlos Almanzar-Torres, now 23, who brutally killed Damian Santiago, 19, at the Sunoco located at 111 West Orange Street around 10 p.m. on Sunday, Mar. 11, 2022. He was sentenced on Jan. 23 after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder and two counts of recklessly endangering another person.
“We are here for the actions of an angry man,” prosecuting Assistant District Attorney CJ Rest…
Man Admits To Filming Child Rapes In Multiple Counties, Lancaster DA Says
A man has admitted to raping a child in his care and filming it, the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office announce on Monday, Jan. 8.
On Wednesday, Jan. 3, Arturo Aleman, 47, of the 100 block of Green Street, Lancaster, admitted to raping a child in his care in Lancaster and Berks counties from 2016 through 2022.
When the girl was just 14 years old she "disclosed the abuse to Lancaster City Bureau of Police Detective Jessica Higgins, who began her investigation in Oct. 2022," the DA explained.
The abuse happened from when the girl was approximately 8 years old…
Incest, Rape Of Child Among 50+ Charges Filed Against NY Man By PA Police
After several children told police in Pennsylvania that a New York man had been sexually abusing them for years — this week an arrest was made, according to a release on Friday, Nov. 17.
Dennis Martinez, 38 of Brooklyn, NY, was taken into custody in New York City on Monday, Nov. 14, 2023, Lancaster City Bureau of Police detailed in a release.
The Lancaster police had been investigating Martinez since Oct. 2022, after being notified that three children in Lancaster City had suffered "abuse [that] occurred over an extended period of time, at least several years," th…
Fentanyl Drug Bust: Pipeline From Philadelphia To Lancaster Closed, DA Says
Charges filed in a drug bust that has halted the "Philadelphia to Lancaster fentanyl pipeline," District Attorney Heather Adams announced on Wednesday, Nov. 8.
Louis Angel Cruz, 42 of the 600 block of S. Ann Street, Lancaster; Michael Beck, 41 of the first block of Crystal Drive, Manheim; and Heather Wagner, 30 of the first block of Crystal Drive, Manheim; were all charged on Oct. 31 in connection with an organized drug operation running from Philadelphia to Lancaster, the District Attorney's office detailed in a release.
The Drug Task Force and Lancaster City Bureau of Police be…
