2012-05-14 21:37:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Armed robbers struck three stores in Lancaster city and East Lampeter Township in eight days, police reported.
A masked gunman robbed a convenience store in the city Sunday night.
It happened at 11:45 at the Turkey Hill at 501 Park Ave., city police Lt. Todd Umstead said.
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2012-05-14 10:43:00
STAFF
An armed robber struck a store at Tanger Outlets on Sunday, police reported.
A heavy-set black male, 30 to 40 years old, entered the Totes/Sunglass World Outlet store shortly after 10 a.m., East Lampeter Township police said.
The robber displayed a handgun and demanded money from ......
2012-05-14 09:30:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A masked gunman robbed a city convenience store late Sunday night, police reported.
It happened at 11:45 at the Turkey Hill at 501 Park Ave., city police Lt. Todd Umstead said.
The robber ran into the store, struck a customer in the head with a black handgun and demanded money fro......
2012-05-04 07:35:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two armed robbers wearing ski masks invaded a Conestoga apartment, threw a resident to the floor and stole his money Thursday night, police said.
The 52-year-old man was not injured in the 11 p.m. incident in the 3100 block of Main Street, but he was frightened, Southern Regional police C......
2012-05-03 21:47:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A suspected serial bank robber accused of hitting a bank in Willow Street last summer is in custody.
Through information developed by the FBI, James Louis Whittlesey was arrested on Dec. 11 by the Montreal Police Department and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, according to Virginia FBI spok......
2012-05-02 23:07:00
JENNIFER TODD
A 15-year-old Lancaster boy has been charged with committing an armed robbery Saturday in Manheim, police said.
The teen was with a group of people at a home in the first block of West Ferdinand Street when he drew a gun on a woman around 9 p.m. and demanded her purse, according to Manhei......
2012-05-02 22:13:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A man who said he had a toothache and needed money for a root canal is accused of stealing his friend's car and purse Tuesday morning, then robbing a woman and a Turkey Hill before calling 911 and turning himself in to police.
According to Northwest Regional police Officer Gregory Wahl, A......
2012-04-30 12:41:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Another man who allegedly invaded an Elizabethtown apartment last month has been arrested, police reported.
Ivan Fontanez Jr., 24, of Elizabethtown, allegedly beat and kicked a 26-year-old resident in the head and also struck the man's head with a hammer during a March 20 robbery at Maple......
2012-04-27 11:09:00
STAFF REPORT
Two males wearing ski masks over their faces robbed a convenience store in Manheim Township Friday, police reported.
The two entered the Turkey Hill store at 806 New Holland Ave. at 2:21 a.m. and demanded cash from the clerks, township police Sgt. Thomas Rudzinski reported in a press rele......
2012-04-26 08:45:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police say a man walking in Lancaster city early Thursday was attacked and robbed by three men.
The 22-year-old was walking north in the 300 block of North Christian Street shortly before 2 a.m. when three men passed him walking south, city police Lt. Todd Umstead said.
The three ......
2012-04-25 06:43:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A man armed with a knife attempted to rob a convenience store in Mount Joy Borough on Wednesday morning, police said.
The man entered the Turkey Hill at 703 E. Main St. at 1:26 a.m. and demanded money from the clerk, borough police said. He was armed with a chef's knife and wore a blue-an......
2012-04-24 12:33:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A man with a ski mask covering his face robbed a convenience store in Manheim Township early Monday morning, police said.
He entered the Turkey Hill at 806 New Holland Ave. at 1:35 a.m. and handed the clerk a note demanding cash, township police said.
The robber fled on foot with ......
2012-04-24 09:15:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An Eden Township man wanted to buy a vehicle using Craigslist, but ended up getting assaulted and robbed, state police said.
The 24-year-old man gave the "seller" the address of his home on Groff Road.
On Thursday, the "seller" assaulted the man and took $1,000 from him, police sa......
2012-04-20 10:53:00
CINDY STAUFFER and RYAN ROBINSON
Two Lancaster men have been charged with a knifepoint robbery of a man, a liquor store robbery and two other attempted robberies over a five-day span. Police said the men targeted the same liquor store twice and two ATM machines. One of the men used a knife to threaten customers who were usi......
2012-04-19 10:57:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police nabbed a man who tried to rob a restaurant in Columbia on Tuesday, they said.
Frederick William Caswell, 59, who has no address, targeted the Columbia Family Restaurant at 960 Columbia Ave. at 10:05 a.m., borough police said in a criminal complaint.
Caswell demanded all the......
2012-04-16 20:40:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police are investigating three recent robberies in Manheim Township and Lancaster city.
A Manheim Township man reported being robbed at 10:41 p.m. Friday, township police said.
He had just withdrawn money from an ATM machine in the 1900 block of Fruitville Pike, they said, when a ......
2012-04-16 12:38:00
CINDY HUMMEL
Passengers aboard the Strasburg Rail Road were transported back in time when a posse of trouble makers rushed the cars in a mock train heist. On Sunday afternoon, a gang of "criminals" climbed into a train en route to Paradise and demanded that the passengers drop their "money" and "jewels"......
2012-04-14 17:55:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
East Hempfield Township police are investigating two robberies and a pair of attempted robberies that happened in the past week. As of Saturday night, no arrests had been made. Police believe the same man was involved in the attempted robberies, but the successful robberies were committ......
2012-04-10 21:08:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A masked man entered the Wine & Spirits store at 1761 Columbia Ave. at about 8:25 p.m. Monday. He demanded money from the lone clerk in the East Hempfield Township store but did not display a weapon, police said.
No customers were present.
The man, who was wearing a black mask......
2012-04-10 21:04:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Police said they have a suspect in custody after the Monday night robbery of a convenience store in Lancaster.
Police said a witness helped them quickly nab a man who allegedly robbed the Turkey Hill at 410 E. Chestnut St. just after 7 p.m. Monday. They offered this account:
As ci......
2012-04-09 11:33:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Lancaster City and County Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of a bank robbery suspect.
The suspect held up the PNC Bank at Kendig Square in West Lampeter Township at 6:50 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 22.
The man herded two employees i......
2012-04-02 19:33:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Gap man has been arrested and charged with robbing a hardware store in a rural area of Salisbury Township, police said.
Kevin L. Dowlin, 31, went into the Gideon King Hardware Store, 5466 Elam Road, Kinzers, the afternoon of March 27, state police at Ephrata said.
He acted like ......
2012-03-30 21:09:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Three daylight robberies in Lancaster city will cost young Spencer Bryant up to 8 years in state prison.
Bryant will spend at least 4 years in prison for the random robberies of three city youths on Jan. 22, 2010.
Bryant, now 20, targeted a pair of Franklin & Marshall College&......
2012-03-27 12:41:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two robbers struck a city store Sunday night, police reported today.
Two males entered Domi Mini Market, 72 S. Marshall St., at 8:34 p.m. and one of them displayed a handgun, city police said.
No one was injured.
An unknown amount of cash was taken, police said.
Su......
2012-03-26 11:55:00
STAFF
A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered for information about a robber who struck a convenience store in Gap last week, police said.
He robbed the Turkey Hill store on Route 41 on March 19 at about 12:22 a.m., police said. No weapon was displayed and no one was injured.
The robb......
2012-03-26 07:31:00
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Police in New York have arrested a Lancaster County man suspected of robbing the M&T Bank in South Lebanon Township in Lebanon County.
Jeffrey J. Mitchell, 48, Manheim, was arrested Thursday for the March 1 holdup of the bank along State Drive, said South Lebanon Township Police Chief......
2012-03-22 22:07:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
James Gerald Ashby will spend up to 20 years in prison for robbing the same local convenience store four times.
Ashby, through his attorney, said his motivation for repeatedly robbing a Turkey Hill on Route 41 in Salisbury Township was a drug habit.
"He wanted money," defense lawy......
2012-03-22 21:06:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Three robbers invaded an Elizabethtown apartment in broad daylight on Tuesday, police said.
One of them beat and kicked a 26-year-old resident in the head and also struck his head with a hammer, Elizabethtown police Detective John Emrick said.
The robbers fled with about $1,000 ca......
2012-03-20 09:50:00
STAFF
A reward is being offered for help in identifying two people who robbed a city jewelry store at gunpoint.
They entered A.W. Jewelry, 51 W. King St., and pointed a handgun at an employee on Feb. 22 at about 5:47 p.m., city police said.
The robbers then fled the store without gettin......
2012-03-19 22:10:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Three Lancaster men were ordered Monday to stand trial for allegedly kidnapping and robbing a city man at gunpoint over three days in December.
The victim testified for two hours about how the men came to his business and demanded $5,000. The victim was handcuffed and forced to withdraw m......
2012-03-12 12:19:00
STAFF
A convenience store in Manheim Township was robbed on Saturday, police reported today.
A male entered the Turkey Hill, 806 New Holland Ave., at 2 a.m. and demanded cash from the clerk, Manheim Township police said.
No weapon was displayed.
The robber fled with an undisclos......
2012-03-06 21:20:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police are investigating the robberies of a hotel patron in Manheim Township and a convenience store clerk in Lancaster city.
Three assailants robbed a Leola man staying at the America's Best Value Inn, 1320 Harrisburg Pike, early Tuesday morning, police said.
Three males kicked i......
2012-03-02 21:20:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A "menace to society" will serve up to 60 years in prison for stabbing a man during a Lancaster city robbery in 2010, according to a judge's order.
Santos Rodriguez, 46, was released from jail in 2010 — for killing a city man in 1996 — when he stabbed another man outside ......
2012-03-01 23:58:00
JENNIFER TODD and LARRY ALEXANDER
A suspect in an armed bank robbery kept police at bay for several hours Thursday when he holed up in a barn in West Hempfield Township.
The suspect was taken into custody without incident after members of the county's Special Emergency Response Team stormed the barn shortly before 6:20 p.......
2012-03-01 22:11:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster city man already in jail and charged with a series of brazen heists at area businesses has been charged with another violent robbery.
Juan "Cano" Gonzalez, 45, was originally locked up after he was charged in connection with a trio of armed robberies in January at three city s......
2012-03-01 22:02:00
RYAN ROBINSON
The owner of a pizza parlor fought off an armed robber in Gap on Wednesday night.
Claudio Picone, 38, of Lancaster, was locking up the Pizza Box for the night when he was ambushed by a man and a woman around 9:55 p.m. just outside the business at 5315 Lincoln Highway, state police said....
2012-02-29 22:39:00
JENNIFER TODD
Police say Donald L. Wilson told them he acted on impulse when he decided to abduct a woman Tuesday night in the parking lot of Giant food store on Lititz Pike.
He made eye contact with her and decided he wanted to rape her, Manheim Township police said Wilson told them. Brandishing a kni......
2012-02-28 20:09:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Gabriel Salvador-Rodriguez will spend up to 20 years in state prison for shooting a Lancaster city teenager in the face last year.
A local judge told Salvador-Rodriguez he's lucky it's not longer.
Salvador-Rodriguez shot the teen during a botched robbery on June 15 inside a car on......
2012-02-23 15:33:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A man was shot during one of four robberies overnight Wednesday in Lancaster city, police said.
Three were armed robberies.
City police Lt. Todd Umstead said there is no clear indication whether the incidents are related.
"There are similarities between some of them, and t......
2012-02-21 23:09:00
JENNIFER TODD
Police didn't have to look far to find a man whom they say assaulted and robbed a taxi cab driver Sunday morning in East Lampeter Township.
Officers responding early Tuesday to a burglar alarm at M&S Auto, 2282 Old Philadelphia Pike, found the suspect, 26-year-old Dennis Maurice Bonne......
2012-02-21 12:30:00
Staff
A taxi driver was assaulted and robbed in East Lampeter Township early Sunday morning, police reported.
The Yellow Cab driver picked up a male in the city shortly after 2 a.m. and drove him to the 400 block of Greenland Drive, township police said.
The robber struck the driver in ......
2012-02-14 21:12:00
STAFF REPORT
East Lampeter Township police are searching for a man who robbed a Tanger Outlets store Monday night.
Investigators said the man entered the Bath & Body Works outlet shortly before 10:20 p.m. and waited until there were no other customers in the store.
He then approached the r......
2012-02-13 20:43:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Two Columbia women are headed to trial after being accused of attacking an elderly woman during a robbery outside a local grocery store.
Amanda Place and Amanda Kinnard both waived preliminary hearings on multiple charges, including felony robbery, for the Jan. 10 crime.
Kinnard, ......
2012-02-08 21:29:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster city teenager is behind bars after a crime spree that resulted in four arrests and 12 charges in two weeks.
Samara Jimenez, 19, is accused of several crimes, from armed robbery to retail theft, according to investigators.
Jimenez was arrested three times last month but......
2012-02-07 22:02:00
DAN NEPHIN
Dennis Richard Silvius recently told his landlord and neighbors that he'd be undergoing a heart procedure Tuesday, they said.
Instead, around 9:30 a.m., the 54-year-old robbed the Sovereign Bank around the corner from the boardinghouse where he'd been living, Manheim police said, briefly ......
2012-02-07 13:15:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A bank in Manheim was robbed this morning, according to a county dispatcher.
The Sovereign Bank at 33 Market Square was struck shortly before 9:30 a.m.
The robber was described as a white male wearing a green hooded sweatshirt and a black scarf.
Manheim Borough police did ......
2012-02-02 06:30:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two people robbed a convenience store in Willow Street early Thursday, police said.
The pair entered the Turkey Hill at 2921 Willow Street Pike at 12:15 a.m. wearing black hooded sweatshirts, West Lampeter Township police said.
One robber ordered the clerk at gunpoint to empty the......
2012-01-30 23:31:00
STAFF REPORT
State police have charged a New Holland man with the armed robbery of a Gap sandwich shop in August.
Joshua Handel, 20, is charged with robbery, unlawful restraint, terroristic threats and theft for the Aug. 10 robbery at Subway, 5323 Lincoln Highway.
Police said Handel displayed ......
2012-01-26 10:29:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Authorities said they have arrested the third of three men charged with threatening, kidnapping and extorting a Lancaster city businessman.
Lennell Anthony Preston, 35, of the 600 block of Rockland Street, was arrested Wednesday night in the 400 block of West Vine Street by U.S. Marshals ......
2012-01-23 21:29:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two county men have been charged with two more armed robberies, police said Monday.
They are Shaun Ronald Appler, 26, of 269 Loop Road, Quarryville, and Evan Charles Blank, 21, of 3154 Lincoln Highway East, Paradise, state police Trooper Gerard Sauers said.
The pair robbed the Tur......
2012-01-23 08:34:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A robber with a knife held up a Turkey Hill store in East Hempfield Township Sunday night, police said.
He displayed a knife and asked a clerk at the 2171 Columbia Ave. store for cash and cigarettes at around 11:40 p.m., township police said.
The robber fled north toward the Lowe'......
2012-01-20 21:01:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police arrested two men Thursday in connection with three armed robberies in East Lampeter Township earlier this week.
Charges against them also are pending for three other robberies in nearby municipalities.
Township and state police on Thursday arrested Shaun Ronald Appler, 26, ......
2012-01-20 11:01:00
JENNIFER TODD
Four people have been charged in connection with the assault and robbery of two men Wednesday in New Holland.
Police said the assailants targeted the victims because they were wearing a color associated with a certain gang.
Lt. Jonathan Heisse said the victims "just happened to be......
2012-01-18 20:54:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police are investigating six armed robberies in Lancaster County in the past week that could be related, they said.
A handgun was displayed in all of them, but police did not report any injuries in the robberies.
"We are certainly looking at the possibility that they may all be co......
2012-01-18 06:16:00
STAFF
Police are searching for a man who held up a clerk at a motel in East Lampeter Township Monday night. The man entered the Cherry Lane Motel, 84 N. Ronks Road, at 7 p.m. and inquired about a room, township police said. He then pointed a handgun at the female clerk and demanded money....
2012-01-16 22:27:00
STAFF REPORT
An armed man wearing a motorcycle helmet held up a Gap convenience store Monday night.
According to police dispatch reports, the man entered the Turkey Hill on Route 41 just before 9:45 p.m and displayed a black handgun.
He fled the store with cash from the register. It was not im......
2012-01-15 01:49:00
STAFF
The Turkey Hill store at 14 N. State St. in Brownstown was robbed at 11:57 p.m., Saturday.
West Earl Township police said the robber approached the clerk and asked for cigarettes and lottery tickets. When the clerk got the items, the man pulled a knife and demanded money from the cash ......
2012-01-13 19:42:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police have caught another of the three men they say robbed, assaulted and kidnapped a Lancaster city man in December.
U.S. marshals arrested Aaron Walter Robinson, 36, of the 100 block of East New Street, on Thursday in Richmond, Va., they said.
Chapel Thompson, 27, of the 100 bl......
2012-01-13 12:01:00
STAFF REPORT
Police are looking for a woman suspected of a robbing a pharmacy in Manheim Township on Thursday.
The woman entered the Walgreens store at 1262 Lititz Pike shortly before noon, township police said.
She handed the pharmacist a threatening note demanding drugs and money and fled wi......
2012-01-12 23:04:00
JENNIFER TODD
Less than 24 hours after he allegedly robbed a Lancaster city bank, Dustin Lee Rettew was behind bars.
Rettew, 37, of the 100 block of House Rock Road, Pequea, allegedly held up Northwest Savings Bank, 922 Columbia Ave., Wednesday afternoon.
Police say it was Rettew who entered th......
2012-01-12 22:07:00
JENNIFER TODD
Lancaster city business owners can breathe a little easier.
Lancaster city police said Thursday they have nabbed the man they believe was responsible for last week's armed robberies of three city businesses in a roughly 24-hour span.
Police on Monday arrested Juan C. Gonzalez, 45,......
2012-01-11 20:11:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A Lancaster city bank was robbed early Wednesday afternoon, investigators said.
City police provided this account:
Around 1:20 p.m., a robber walked into Northwest Savings Bank, 922 Columbia Ave.
After passing a note to a teller, he was given an unknown amount of money fro......
2012-01-11 20:10:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two Columbia women robbed another woman outside a grocery store in West Hempfield Township and fled in a vehicle with two young children inside Tuesday night, police said.
The strong-arm robbery happened in the Weis market parking lot at 1786 Columbia Ave. at about 8:30 p.m., township pol......
2012-01-06 22:51:00
DAN NEPHIN
Sylvia Weaver, a jeweler at J.A. Sharp Custom Jeweler, said she had a sense something wasn't quite right about the customer who asked an employee to see a ring Wednesday afternoon.
So she came out to the register when the employee took the ring over for the sale.
Her hunch was rig......
2012-01-06 22:42:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Lancaster police have arrested one of three men sought in a robbery-extortion-kidnapping investigation.
Chapel Thompson, 27, of the 100 block of Penshire Drive, Manheim Township, was arrested Wednesday and charged with robbery, kidnapping, theft by extortion, criminal conspiracy to commit......
2012-01-06 20:42:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Twenty minutes.
That's all it took for a local jury to convict Santos Rodriguez of stabbing a man during a robbery outside a Lancaster city restaurant in 2010.
Rodriguez, already convicted of killing a man here 15 years ago, is now facing a lengthy prison term when he is sentenced......
2012-01-06 12:24:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Within 10 minutes, two people escaped attempted robberies in Lancaster early Thursday morning.
Police said the incidents may be related, as they happened within two blocks of each other and the description of the robberies and robbers were similar.
The first incident happened at 1......
2012-01-05 21:10:00
CINDY STAUFFER, DAVID O'CONNOR and LARRY ALEXANDER
Another Lancaster business was robbed Thursday morning, bringing to three the number of armed holdups in the city in just 25 hours.
At 9:37 a.m. Thursday, a man entered Park's grocery store, 201 W. Vine St., displayed a silver-and-black handgun and demanded money, city police said. An emp......
2012-01-05 15:03:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Lancaster police have a new robbery on their hands today.
Someone this morning entered Park's grocery, 201 W. Vine St., displayed a silver-and-black handgun and demanded money, city police said.
An employee gave the suspect an undetermined amount of cash in the 9:37 a.m. robbery, ......
2012-01-04 13:17:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A city youth will serve up to 10 years in prison for robbing and pistol-whipping a Franklin & Marshall College student in 2010. Juan Mejia was 15 when he attacked the F&M senior outside the victim's home on West Frederick Street, according to testimony. Mejia, now 17, was to go ......
2012-01-04 12:11:00
CINDY STAUFFER and LARRY ALEXANDER
Two Lancaster businesses located just blocks apart were robbed Wednesday. Just before 8:30 a.m., a man displaying a silver handgun demanded cash from a clerk at Royer's Flowers, 873 N. Queen St., city police said. The clerk opened the cash register and gave an undisclosed......
2012-01-03 23:36:00
JENNIFER TODD
Lancaster police have charged two men in an attempted robbery last month during which a gun was fired into an apartment where three children were sleeping.
Police arrested Tyquanne Shamar Johnson, 20, without incident Sunday evening and Clifton Kelvin Hunter, 17, turned himself in the nex......
2011-12-31 10:31:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Three Lancaster men are charged with robbing four skateboarders Friday in the city, investigators said. One of the charged robbers pulled a gun as the trio searched the victims' pockets, stealing a cellphone and money, police said. Charged with four counts of felony robbery and a sin......
2011-12-29 23:13:00
JENNIFER TODD
Police have arrested a man accused of robbing a Lancaster Township bank on Christmas Eve.
Derek L. Danz, 33, of South Queen Street, was taken into custody late Thursday morning at a home on West Vine Street, according to Manheim Township police Sgt. Tom Rudzinski.
Danz is charged ......
2011-12-24 21:43:00
STAFF
Manheim Township police are seeking a man who held up the Fulton Bank branch at Manor Shopping Center in Lancaster Township late Saturday morning.
The man, an Hispanic male, was captured by the bank cameras as he handed a note to the teller at 11:45 a.m.
Police said the man t......
2011-12-23 08:35:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A man robbed a West Lampeter Township bank just before 7 p.m. Thursday.
The robbery happened at the PNC Bank, 11 Long Lane, Willow Street.
The suspect was described as about 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 9 inches tall, with a thin build and dressed in dark clothing.
He fled th......
2011-12-22 22:34:00
TOM KNAPP
The state Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death penalty for a man convicted of killing an Elizabethtown businessman in 2007.
A jury convicted Abraham Sanchez Jr. in March 2009 of shooting Ray Diener on the victim's doorstep.
The jurors subsequently sentenced Sanchez, who was......
2011-12-21 20:49:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A manager was robbed at gunpoint after closing a Tanger Outlets store Tuesday night, East Lampeter Township police reported.
The woman closed the Yankee Candle store along Stanley K. Tanger Boulevard at 10 p.m., township police Lt. Robin Weaver said.
She had exited the store throu......
2011-12-20 20:50:00
RYAN ROBINSON and LARRY ALEXANDER
State police have charged a man with robbing the Susquehanna Bank on Route 41 in Gap on Dec. 13.
The suspect, Emory Edward Reed III, 36, surrendered Monday night, according to police. Police charged him with robbery and theft.
The suspect's image was captured by bank surveillance ......
2011-12-16 21:32:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster man who police say robbed a credit union in East Hempfield Township on Tuesday is behind bars.
Robert J. Souders, 33, of Lancaster, was taken into custody without incident at the township police department Thursday evening, police said.
Souders was interviewed and admi......
2011-12-15 22:39:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Police are seeking two men after a robbery and home invasion in Lancaster Township on Thursday evening.
The robbery occurred around 7:45 p.m. in the 1500 block of Passey Lane.
At least one of the suspects was reported to have been armed with a knife.
Police dispatchers des......
2011-12-13 22:55:00
LARRY ALEXANDER and JENNIFER TODD
Police are investigating robberies of a credit union and a bank that occurred Tuesday at opposite ends of the county.
In East Hempfield Township, a man held up Wheatland Federal Credit Union, 611 Centerville Road, at 1:50 p.m.
Police described the bandit as a white man in his late......
2011-12-07 22:43:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Pennsylvania State Police, along with U.S. Marshals and Columbia police, arrested a county man for a 2008 crime in Maryland.
Reginald Farley, 41, of Lancaster city, was arrested Wednesday in the 200 block of South Fifth Street in Columbia. He was wanted on charges of robbery of a motor ve......
2011-11-28 20:13:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Several things were stolen from Hillary Davis when an armed intruder broke into her Lancaster city home last year.
The most important things weren't material, Davis told a local judge Monday.
"I was robbed of my peace. I was robbed of feeling stable and secure," a tearful Davis sa......
2011-11-26 22:59:00
STAFF
A 17-year-old Denver boy was arrested Friday and charged as an adult for an armed robbery Wednesday night at a convenience store in East Cocalico Township. Police allege the boy, who wasn't identified, robbed Turkey Hill, 2501 North Reading Road (Route 272), and fled with cash. He showe......
2011-11-26 22:29:00
STAFF
DUIRAPHO TWP.: Luis Anthony Rivera, 22, was charged with DUI, hit-and-run, and other traffic violations after a two-car crash Saturday, state police at Ephrata said. Rivera was drivin......
2011-11-24 16:35:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
An Ephrata man with special needs thought he was meeting a young woman for a date in February. Instead, police allege, he encountered Wade Robert Smith, a 20-year-old Ephrata man who tried to rob him. On Wednesday, Smith admitted in Lancaster County Court to baiting the victim to Ephrat......
2011-11-22 15:25:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Nine minutes is all it took for Sammy Nazmy to rob a pair of local women at random last year.
It will cost him 3 1/2 to 7 years in state prison, a judge ordered on Tuesday.
Nazmy said he wasn't in "the right mind" when he robbed the women, telling one victim he had a gun and physi......
2011-11-22 09:48:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A man robbed a Manheim Township convenience store early Tuesday, police said.
The man entered the Turkey Hill at 806 New Holland Ave. at 2:48 a.m. He said he had a gun, but did not display one, and demanded money from the clerk.
No one was injured in the robbery, which is being in......
2011-11-17 23:34:00
TOM KNAPP
Police arrested two men minutes after they allegedly invaded a Lancaster Township apartment and robbed the occupants at gunpoint shortly after midnight Thursday.
Tyeke J. Holcomb, 21, of East Main Street, Mountville, and Nelson Mejias, 23, of Hebrank Street, were charged with robbery, cri......
2011-11-16 21:41:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
The Lancaster man thought he had made arrangements to have sex with a woman he met last year at a city bar, police allege.
Instead, according to testimony, the man was being set up by a prostitute and her pimp.
He was baited outside of the bar, then stabbed and robbed, according t......
2011-11-15 10:27:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An armed robber struck a convenience store in East Cocalico Township Monday night, police said.
The robber entered the Turkey Hill store at 2501 N. Reading Road at 7:45, displayed a handgun and demanded money, township police Sgt. Ray Burns said.
He got an undisclosed amount of ca......
2011-11-11 12:21:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A recent purse-snatching and other robberies in the city's northwest have police and the Franklin & Marshall College community on alert.
The most recent robbery happened at about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday in the 500 block of West Lemon Street, when a man ripped a purse from the arm of a wo......
2011-11-09 15:35:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A young woman used a cup of hot tea to escape a would-be robber earlier this week, according to city police.
The 19-year-old was targeted in the 500 block of West New Street at 12:13 a.m. on Monday, city police said.
A robber approached her from behind and threatened her with a bl......
2011-11-07 19:59:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An armed robber couldn't get cash, so he settled for stealing a prosthetic leg from an occupant of a Lancaster Township apartment Sunday night, police said.
The incident occurred in the 1600 block of Judie Lane, in the Lancaster Green complex, at 6:23, Manheim Township police said.
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2011-11-02 21:55:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A young Lancaster city man was paroled Monday after serving nine months in prison for a series of random street robberies last year.
Danzel Washington avoided a lengthy state prison term, according to court statements, because he testified against a pair of men who also were charged in th......
2011-11-02 11:50:00
Staff
A group of teenage girls robbed a man and scratched his vehicle in the city Monday afternoon, police said.
A 58-year-old man was walking in the 300 block of West King Street at 1:45 p.m. when four girls walked up to him, police said.
They scratched his nearby vehicle with a screwd......
2011-10-31 13:12:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police are asking for the public's help to help them identify a convenience store robber, police said.
A reward is being offered for helpful information about the robber of the Sunoco A Plus store at 1404 N. Reading Road, Reamstown, Oct. 4, East Cocalico Township police said.
The ......
2011-10-27 22:37:00
JENNIFER TODD
Lancaster city police have charged a Utah man in connection with a 2006 home-invasion robbery during which an elderly couple was assaulted and bound.
Investigators said DNA collected at the scene of the crime eventually led them to Sophath Mek, 27, who currently resides in Logan, about 80......
2011-10-26 07:44:00
STAFF REPORT
A Lancaster County man was arrested after a bank robbery Tuesday afternoon in New Jersey, according to a prosecutor.
Odell Taitt, 32, of Denver, allegedly robbed a PNC Bank in Tewksbury Township, N.J., Hunterdon County Prosecutor Anthony P. Kearns III said in a press release.
Tait......
2011-10-20 20:11:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police have charged a former city man with robbing a Lancaster Township bank last week.
Moises Sanchez-Lugo, 28, of Chester, robbed the PNC Bank, 1356 Columbia Ave., on Oct. 11, Manheim Township police said.
At 1:32 p.m., Sanchez-Lugo handed a teller a note indicating that it was ......
2011-10-17 15:13:00
STAFF REPORT
East Lampeter Township police are asking for the public's help in identifying a strong-arm robber who struck outside a Walmart store Saturday.
The robber at 4:45 p.m. approached a female as she got out of her vehicle at the 2034 Lincoln Highway East store, township police said. He grunted......
2011-10-14 20:55:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A night of partying for three young men at a local college last month turned into assault and robbery, according to charging documents.
Three teenagers, including two recent McCaskey High School graduates, were charged this week with multiple counts of robbery for attacking a group of Mil......
2011-10-13 15:56:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Young Davon Wright had it all last fall.
He was a local college student on scholarship with a steady income from a part-time job.
Until he decided to join some friends and prey on a Lancaster city man for "pure sport," as a prosecutor called it.
"You had everything going f......
2011-10-11 16:53:00
STAFF REPORT
Police were investigating the robbery of a Lancaster Township bank Tuesday afternoon.
A man entered the PNC Bank, 1356 Columbia Ave., at 1:30 p.m. and handed a note demanding cash to a teller, according to Manheim Township police.
After being given an undisclosed amount of money, ......
2011-10-07 09:04:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police are looking for two suspects who robbed a man at knifepoint in the city early Thursday morning.
The robbers confronted the 28-year-old man in the 600 block of West King Street at 1:49 a.m., city police said.
They demanded he hand over his cell phone and one displayed a four......
2011-10-05 21:43:00
TOM MURSE
The number of crimes reported to police in Lancaster city fell to its lowest level in nearly a decade last year, and similar declines were experienced in the suburbs, new state and federal data show. City officials said they were pleased with the figures released this week but......
2011-10-04 06:11:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Robbers struck two convenience stores Tuesday morning. No weapons were displayed, and no one was hurt in either robbery, police said. The Sunoco A Plus store at 1404 N. Reading Road, Reamstown, was hit at 2:02 a.m., East Cocalico Township police said. A male robber demanded mone......
2011-10-03 21:05:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 17-year-old boy is accused of sexually assaulting an Elizabethtown College student Sunday morning during an attempted robbery on the college campus, according to police.
Police said a 21-year-old woman was threatened and fondled while waiting for her boyfriend outside a campus housing c......
2011-09-30 12:01:00
CINDY STAUFFER
As bank surveillance camera photos go, this was a really good one, showing a suspect who Monday robbed the PNC bank on Greenfield Road. The picture, capturing a bearded man wearing sunglasses and a red baseball cap, appeared in this newspaper, on television reports and on online news account......
2011-09-29 21:51:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Four months after being captured in New York, Kenneth Peralta is headed to trial, accused of shooting a local Weis Markets employee who tried to thwart a theft.
Peralta waived a preliminary hearing Thursday morning, and his case was ordered to trial.
That likely will take place ne......
2011-09-29 14:48:00
staff
A Kirkwood man was sent to prison today for allegedly robbing a store in southern Lancaster County Sept. 19, police said.
Matthew S. Larrabee, 22, entered the Pleasant Valley Country Store, 429 Sproul Road, Kirkwood, at 1:35 p.m., approached the cashier and demanded money from the registe......
2011-09-28 07:34:00
STAFF REPORT
Police are searching for a man who held up a store Monday night at Rockvale Square. The man entered the Jockey outlet around 8:50 p.m., displayed a handgun and demanded money, East Lampeter Township police said. He fled on foot after obtaining an undetermined amount of cash. The su......
2011-09-26 19:44:00
STAFF REPORT
Police are searching for a man who they say robbed a bank Monday in East Lampeter Township.
Investigators said the man entered PNC Bank, 525 Greenfield Road, about 3 p.m. and demanded money from the bank tellers.
No weapon was displayed. Police said the man left the bank with an u......
2011-09-23 21:49:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Stealing a six-pack of beer will cost Richard Decker Jr. more than six years in state prison, according to a judge's order.
Had Decker not pulled a gun on bar employees who tried to get the beer back, it would have been nothing more than retail theft.
Instead, Decker, 23, wasn't w......
2011-09-22 21:27:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster County judge told a young city man Thursday that he is down to his last chance.
At age 20, Antonio Dejesus already has a long list of crimes to his credit, Judge Howard Knisely said.
His latest, an armed home-invasion robbery, was "almost the most serious offense you c......
2011-09-15 11:54:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police are investigating an armed robbery in the city Tuesday night.
Three robbers approached a 20-year-old man walking in the first block of Fairview Avenue at 11 p.m., city police said.
One held a handgun.
The robbers took a carrying bag containing an iPad of unknown val......
2011-09-13 13:21:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An armed robber struck a store in Lancaster city Sunday night, police reported today.
The robber at 7:15 p.m. entered Domi Mini Market, 72 S. Marshall St., displayed a small to medium-sized pistol and demanded money, city police said.
An undetermined amount of cash was handed to h......
2011-09-12 23:14:00
STAFF REPORT
Police are investigating the armed robbery Monday night of a Lancaster Township convenience store.
A masked man entered Turkey Hill, 1349 Millersville Pike, just before 10:45 p.m. and pointed a gun at the clerk, Manheim Township police said.
He got an undisclosed amount of ca......
2011-09-12 23:10:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A county man was behind bars Monday, accused of assault and burglary.
Linford Leroy Riehl, 34, of Kinzers, was charged with aggravated assault, robbery and four counts of burglary and was placed in Lancaster County Prison.
According to state police, Riehl knocked on the door of a ......
2011-09-08 21:51:00
JENNIFER TODD
State police are investigating the armed robbery of a Paradise Township bank Thursday morning.
Investigators said two masked men entered Wells Fargo Bank, 3119 Lincoln Highway East, at about 10:10 p.m.
One stood watch while the other brandished a handgun and demanded money, police......
2011-09-07 10:41:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A 15-year-old Mountville boy was arrested on robbery, simple assault and theft charges, police reported. Shortly before 4 p.m. Aug. 24, police were dispatched to the 300 block of East New Street in Mountville for a robbery, West Hempfield Township police said. A 14-year-old Mountville b......
2011-08-31 09:56:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An armed robber struck a city convenience store Monday night, police reported today.
The Turkey Hill store at 410 E. Chestnut St., was robbed at gunpoint at 11 p.m. Monday, city police said. An unknown amount of cash was taken.
A suspect was described as a Hispanic male in his 20......
2011-08-23 22:34:00
JENNIFER TODD
Lancaster police are searching for three men who allegedly assaulted and robbed a man early Tuesday, drove the victim home and then stole his car.
Investigators said the victim, a 31-year-old Lancaster Township man, was struck in the face with an object in the 500 block of South Prince St......
2011-08-23 20:39:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A robber struck a convenience store in West Hempfield Township late Monday, police said.
According to police, a man entered the Turkey Hill Minit Market at 1490 Stony Battery Road at 11:47 p.m. and demanded cigarettes and cash.
The suspect was described as a heavyset black man, 5 ......
2011-08-16 08:24:00
STAFF
A woman was assaulted and robbed by two men Sunday in Leola, police said.
It happened shortly after 1 a.m. in the first block of East Main Street at South Maple Avenue, East Lampeter Township police said.
The men, driving in a silver van, followed the woman's car, police said....
2011-08-12 21:37:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Maryland couple has been charged with the April robbery of an East Lampeter Township bank, police reported Friday.
Jason Ronald Dixon, 44, of Baltimore, and Shawnette Fleet, 42, of Essex, were charged Thursday with the April 8 holdup of Wheatland Federal Credit Union, 555 Greenfield Roa......
2011-08-11 23:09:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Police dragged the nearby Conestoga River, looking for her bones. They combed the adjacent woods. They followed up on some very bizarre leads.
A year later, Lancaster city police continue to investigate the robbery of a little girl's grave in Riverview Cemetery, off South Duke Street.......
2011-08-11 22:27:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Manheim Township police apprehended a man suspected of robbing a bank Thursday afternoon.
Richard W. Kennedy III, 20, of Lititz Avenue, is accused of robbing the Susquehanna Bank at Lancaster Shopping Center. It was the second time in 11 days the bank had been robbed.
Police......
2011-08-11 21:43:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Stealing a six-pack of beer will cost a Lancaster man at least 5 years in state prison, he was told Thursday in county court.
Richard Decker Jr., 23, admitted to robbing a Lancaster Township bar/restaurant of the six-pack in 2009. He also admitted to pointing a handgun at two employees wh......
2011-08-11 10:21:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police have arrested two people — including one who admitted to committing a string of bank heists — in Wednesday's robbery of a credit union in Mount Joy, investigators said.
Jason Ronald Dixon, 44, of Baltimore, and Shawnette Renee Fleet, 42, of Essex, Md., were stopped whil......
2011-08-10 23:38:00
STAFF REPORT
Police are investigating whether robberies of credit unions in Lancaster and Cumberland counties Wednesday afternoon are connected.
The first robbery occurred around 3:15 p.m. at Lanco Federal Credit Union, 2024 W. Main St., Mount Joy.
A man entered the credit union, displayed a g......
2011-08-10 23:21:00
STAFF REPORT
A man armed with a knife robbed a sandwich shop Wednesday morning in Gap, according to state police.
Investigators said the man entered Subway, 5323 Lincoln Highway, around 11:10 a.m., displayed the weapon and demanded money.
He forced two employees into a rear office before fleei......
2011-08-09 13:26:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A robber struck a market in Manheim Township on Monday night, police said.
A man reached over the counter and grabbed cash from an employee's hands at Rhubarb's Market, 1521 Lititz Pike, at 7:59 p.m., police said. He fled on foot.
The robber was described as a white male in his l......
2011-08-05 22:02:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Convicted robber Kahlil Hammond has proclaimed his innocence by lashing out at Lancaster County Prison, according to court testimony on Friday.
In fact, a guard testified, Hammond has misbehaved so often that prison personnel stopped keeping count of the incidents months ago.
The ......
2011-08-04 21:51:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A young Lancaster city man charged with shooting another man in the face will stand trial after he waived a preliminary hearing Thursday morning.
And Gabriel Salvador-Rodriguez had a message for his alleged victim, who also was in the courtroom.
Salvador-Rodriguez, 20, brought a h......
2011-08-04 10:38:00
CINDY STAUFFER
An armed man held up a cab driver early Thursday in Lancaster Township while she was stopped at an intersection, police said.
The robbery happened at 12:25 a.m. on Wyncroft Lane after the driver dropped off a passenger and was stopped at a stop sign in Hershey Heritage Village, Manheim To......
2011-08-04 08:42:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Police allege a Lancaster city man stole money from his mother, then fled when confronted.
Cirilo E. Bonilla, 19, no permanent address, was charged Wednesday with robbery for a July 17 incident at Garden Court Apartments in the 100 block of South Marshall Street.
Bonilla went to h......
2011-08-02 11:24:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Police quickly nabbed a man who allegedly robbed a Manheim Township bank Monday with the aid of the same kind of device that tells you how to find that new restaurant or your kid's soccer game — a GPS unit.
In this case, police used a GPS tracking device that was attached to bait mo......
2011-08-01 21:36:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
West Hempfield Township police are looking for a man who held up a motel at gunpoint.
According to police, the suspect, described as a tall, thin white male with a shaved head and no facial hair, entered the Sleep Inn, 310 Primrose Lane, shortly after midnight on July 17, posing as a cust......
2011-08-01 21:11:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The Susquehanna Bank branch at Lancaster Shopping Center was robbed Monday afternoon.
Manheim Township police were called to the bank at 1676 Oregon Pike around 4 p.m.
No other information was immediately available.
"It's still being investigated," Sgt. Thomas Rudzinski sa......
2011-07-27 20:39:00
STAFF REPORT
Police are searching for a man who they said held up a bank Wednesday afternoon in West Lampeter Township.
The suspect entered Citizens Bank, 2923 Willow Street Pike, around 2:20 p.m., displayed a handgun and demanded money from a teller.
He fled with an undisclosed amount of cash......
2011-07-27 10:37:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A woman was assaulted and robbed in Lancaster city Tuesday morning, police said.
The 30-year-old was walking in the 400 block of South Prince Street at 12:01 a.m. when two robbers came up behind her, city police said.
A female struck the woman in her arm with a metal pole that was......
2011-07-25 22:16:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster city man will spend up to 20 years in prison for a violent home-invasion robbery and a wild vehicle chase with police.
Ismael Orlando Ortiz, now 23, pleaded guilty last month to robbing a city family with two other men, tying up the residents and menacing them with guns.
......
2011-07-21 20:48:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
The three youths barged into a dorm room at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology last year, wielding guns and knives, according to testimony in court.
Ryan A. Massenburg, the oldest of the crew at 19, gripped a pistol while demanding valuables from the two students inside.
......
2011-07-21 10:43:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Three assailants assaulted and robbed a man in Lancaster city, police reported.
It happened in the 100 block of Euclid Avenue at 10:45 p.m. on Tuesday, city police said.
A 30-year-old man was walking in the block when three men came up from behind and knocked him to the ground, po......
2011-07-20 11:11:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Soon after he robbed a Gap bank in May, police started looking for the man who had worn a cloth tied over his face, rubber gloves on his hands and a baseball-style cap as he waved a pistol at people inside the bank.
Now the FBI and police from two states are on the trail of the man, who i......
2011-07-18 07:04:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A convenience store in Columbia Borough was robbed at gunpoint, police said.
Two robbers struck the Turkey Hill store at 342 Chestnut St. at midnight Monday morning, borough police said.
One of the suspects displayed a semi-automatic pistol.
The robbers demanded money and ......
2011-07-15 22:02:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
For young William McLaughlin, brotherly love proved costly. McLaughlin, 19, will spend up to 11 years in state prison for joining his brother last year to settle a grudge against a man he never met. The McLaughlin brothers — William and Thomas, 21 — broke into......
2011-07-11 22:55:00
JENNIFER TODD
Police are searching for two men in connection to the bold daytime robbery Monday of a New Holland jewelry store. The incident was captured by the store's surveillance camera. Wearing ski masks and brandishing handguns, the men entered Von Gehr Jewelry Shoppe, 151 E. Main St., at 11 a.m......
2011-07-10 22:59:00
P.J. REILLY
A Lancaster man was arrested late Saturday after he attempted to rob a Manor Township gas station at gunpoint, police said.
Jamall Vaughn, 20, of 818 Sterling Place, was charged with robbery and recklessly endangering another person. He was arraigned early Sunday by District Judge Ro......
2011-07-08 22:22:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A foursome charged with robbing three Lancaster city men within minutes last month will stand trial, a judge ordered on Friday.
The four young men — after some coaxing by their attorneys — all agreed to waive their preliminary hearings on charges of robbery and conspiracy.......
2011-07-07 21:42:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Police are searching for a robber who bound a man during a heist Wednesday morning at an Elizabeth Township motel.
The victim, 34, was in a room at the Budget Inn, 1355 Furnace Hills Pike, when a masked man broke in about 5:30 a.m., police said.
The intruder, a black man in his ea......
2011-07-07 11:06:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster County Prison inmate confessed this week to committing an armed robbery, saying it occurred during an early-April drug binge.
Brandon Kio, 25, already is in jail for an April 2 armed robbery at Cloister Wash & Lube in Ephrata.
On Wednesday, from his prison cell, Ki......
2011-07-07 09:34:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An alleged gaming-store bandit is accused of committing two more armed robberies, police said.
Anthony Charles Landi, 24, who is homeless, was charged Wednesday with the June 13 robbery of the GameStop store at 2405 Covered Bridge Drive, near the Target store along Route 30, East Lampeter......
2011-07-05 21:05:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Two roommates had a bad night on the Fourth of July.
The first roommate was in his apartment in the 1100 block of Millersville Pike in Lancaster Township, just before 11 p.m. on Monday, when two men entered, according to police.
The intruders used tape to bind the 32-year-old man'......
2011-07-05 14:40:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Three people assaulted and robbed a Lancaster city man early Sunday, police said.
It happened shortly before 4 a.m. at the 29-year-old man's apartment in the first block of West James Street, city police said.
Three males entered the apartment, punched the man in the face and stol......
2011-06-30 22:47:00
STAFF
Police in West Hempfield Township are investigating an armed robbery that took place Friday at the Turkey Hill store at 1490 Stony Battery Road. Investigators said a man entered the store at 11:37 p.m., armed with a silver pistol. He forced two employees to the floor before fleeing with an undisc......
2011-06-30 11:35:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An armed robber struck a convenience store in Smoketown on Wednesday night, police said. A man entered the Turkey Hill store at 2453 Old Philadelphia Pike at 11:45 p.m. and displayed a handgun, East Lampeter Township police said. He jumped over the counter, demanded money from the clerk......
2011-06-29 21:36:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police arrested an alleged armed robber Tuesday night who is accused of sticking up at least four stores this month in Lancaster County.
Anthony Charles Landi, 24, who is homeless, displayed a handgun and demanded cash at The Framery, 1912 Fruitville Pike, Tuesday at 5:16 p.m., Manhe......
2011-06-28 22:19:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A county judge took a "gamble" Tuesday on a one-time star student turned street robber.
Elvin Perez Jr. was recently an A-student who earned a full athletic scholarship to Shippensburg University, according to testimony Tuesday in county court.
However, his mother said, things wen......
2011-06-28 06:59:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two men robbed a woman of prescription pills Tuesday morning in Columbia, according to police.
The robbery happened shortly after 1 a.m. at a home in the 300 block of South Third Street, borough police Officer David Souders said.
The 27-year-old victim let two men — one she ......
2011-06-26 00:13:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
For the fourth time this month, an armed man robbed a local video game store and eluded capture. The latest robbery happened at 4:20 p.m. Friday inside Play N Trade at 1601 Manheim Pike in Manheim Township. Similar robberies happened at three separate GameStop locations o......
2011-06-24 17:33:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Manheim Township police are looking for a man who robbed a township store Friday afternoon.
The robbery took place at about 4:15 in the 1600 block of Manheim Pike.
Lancaster City police, who were alerted to be on the lookout, confirmed radio reports that a man described as we......
2011-06-22 13:13:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Charges are piling up for one of two men who police said robbed a bank Monday and then fled from police.
Jonathan Agosto-Miletty, 23, is facing five more charges as a result of driving away from police and then running into an Amish farmhouse in Upper Leacock Township and holing up there ......
2011-06-21 21:25:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Though they are in their early 20s, the two men who allegedly robbed a bank Monday are seasoned criminals.
Nathaniel McCain, 21, has been out of state prison three months after serving time on drug charges.
Jonathan Agosto-Miletty, 23, has been out of state prison about eight mont......
2011-06-21 09:35:00
RYAN ROBINSON
The video game store robber has struck again, police believe.
Video game stores have been robbed in Lancaster County each of the last three Mondays.
Police believe the same armed man committed each robbery.
The latest took place Monday night at the GameStop in the Hawthorn......
2011-06-21 00:32:00
JENNIFER TODD and LARRY ALEXANDER
A suspect in a bank robbery peacefully surrendered Monday night after holding police at bay for several hours at a home in Upper Leacock Township.
Jonathan Agosto-Miletty, 23, of Lancaster, walked out of a house at 2469 Horseshoe Road at 7 p.m. and was immediately taken to the state polic......
2011-06-20 21:46:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two armed robbers invaded a Mountville apartment Monday morning, police reported.
At 2:08 a.m., officers from West Hempfield Township police were dispatched to the 100 block of Spring Street for a possible abduction, police said.
Upon arrival, officers learned there was no abducti......
2011-06-20 21:09:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An armed robber struck a restaurant near Franklin & Marshall College Monday morning, police said.
A man displayed a handgun inside the College Corner Cafe, 931 Harrisburg Avenue, and demanded money a few minutes before 8 a.m., city police Sgt. Mike Branner said.
The robber ask......
2011-06-17 20:41:00
RYAN ROBINSON
The masked man with a knife who robbed an Ephrata car wash has been arrested, police said.
Ephrata police on Thursday arrested Brandon E. Kio, 24, of New Holland, for armed robbery and a separate burglary after two months of investigation, they said.
Kio entered the Cloister Wash ......
2011-06-17 08:46:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster man charged with shooting a teenager in the face on Wednesday surrendered to police Friday morning, police said.
Gabriel Salvador-Rodriguez, 20, of the 300 block of North Duke Street, turned himself in at the city police station at 6:30 a.m. and was arrested without incident, ......
2011-06-16 22:28:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
City police are searching for a Lancaster man in connection with Wednesday's shooting on West Frederick Street.
Gabriel Salvador-Rodriguez, 20, of the 300 block of North Duke Street, is accused of shooting a 19-year-old city man in the face after an attempted robbery during a drug buy....
2011-06-16 21:32:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police arrested four men and two boys accused of committing three strong-arm robberies in 11 minutes in the city early Tuesday morning.
Each of the six was charged by city police with three counts of robbery and three counts of criminal conspiracy.
Charged were:
Daniel Ant......
2011-06-15 23:08:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police are investigating to see if two strong-arm robberies early Tuesday morning in the city were committed by the same assailants.
"We are looking into the possibility that the two events were related because they happened within a short time frame," city police Lt. Todd Umstead said....
2011-06-15 07:00:00
STAFF
Two people were assaulted during a robbery Saturday in the first block of West James Street, city police said.
A group of men approached the two male victims around 1:30 a.m. and asked them for money.
When the victims refused, the suspects punched both men and threw one to the gro......
2011-06-14 09:12:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police are trying to determine if the same man committed three armed robberies of suburban stores during the past week.
The robberies were committed in East Lampeter, East Hempfield and Manheim townships.
"We are looking into the possibility that the three robberies are connected,......
2011-06-10 13:13:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Police are looking for a man who held up a video game store in Manheim Township Monday.
The robbery took place at about 9 p.m. at the Game Stop, 1320 Lititz Pike.
A white man, in his 20s, entered the store and pointed a handgun at the clerk, demanding cash.
He was describe......
2011-06-09 21:54:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Two Lancaster city men whose March trial on homicide charges for the 2004 killing of Heather Nunn ended in mistrials have pleaded guilty to lesser offenses.
Mistrials were declared for Hayward Stewart and Michael Stewart.
Two co-defendants, Edward Major and David Jordan, were conv......
2011-06-08 10:30:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police are investigating two robberies in three days in Lancaster city.
A 54-year-old city man was sitting in his parked vehicle in the 500 block of Fremont Street on Monday at 10:15 p.m., city police Sgt. Mike Branner said.
A robber carrying a small black handgun approached and d......
2011-06-07 20:44:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A gaming store in Manheim Township was robbed at gunpoint Monday evening, police said.
The robber pointed a handgun at the clerk while demanding cash at GameStop, 1320 Lititz Pike, at 8:56 p.m., township police said.
He fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.
No one was i......
2011-06-07 08:52:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A gaming store in Manheim Township was robbed at gunpoint Monday evening, police said.
Shortly before 9 o'clock, the robber pointed a handgun at the clerk while demanding cash at Game Stop, 1320 Lititz Pike, township police said. He fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.
No one......
2011-06-06 09:22:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Manheim Township convenience store was robbed at gunpoint, police said today.
A male, wearing all black and carrying a handgun, robbed the Turkey Hill store at 1004 Harrisburg Pike at 12:21 a.m. on Saturday, township police said.
He was last seen running from the store with an u......
2011-06-01 11:27:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An armed robber struck a city grocery store Monday night, police reported on Wednesday.
The robber entered Strawberry Grocery, 100 W. Strawberry St., at 9:43 p.m., robbed an employee at gunpoint and fled on foot with an unknown amount of cash, city police said. No one was injured.
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2011-05-29 00:16:00
TOM MURSE
A masked robber waving a pistol made off with two bags full of cash from a Gap bank Friday afternoon, but he didn't get very far with the loot.
Packs of red dye dropped into the bags by Susquehanna Bank workers blew up just after the robber walked out, making the cash usele......
2011-05-27 21:42:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A man charged with shooting a supermarket loss-prevention officer here was captured in New York City, police said.
New York police arrested Kenneth Joel Peralta, 38, previously of North Mary Street, on Thursday on a separate charge, East Lampeter Township police said Friday.
After......
2011-05-27 20:55:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 21-year-old Ephrata man was jailed Friday for up to 10 years for "storming" the home of his girlfriend's former paramour.
Thomas W. McLaughlin, along with his brother and girlfriend, went to the victim's Ephrata Borough home last year and threatened him with a knife, according to testim......
2011-05-26 10:54:00
Staff
A man robbed a business in Lancaster on Monday, police said.
The robber entered Professional Property Services, 526 S. Queen St., at 1:40 p.m. Monday and handed an employee a note indicating he was robbing the business, city police said.
The employee and robber were involved in a ......
2011-05-18 11:05:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Convicted armed robber Lamont Gorham might be partially blind, but that hasn't kept him from a life of crime, a county judge was told on Wednesday.
Judge Dennis E. Reinaker agreed, and ordered Gorham to 13 to 26 years in state prison for a series of local robbery and gun charges.
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2011-05-15 20:05:00
STAFF
Two men robbed another man at gunpoint in Lancaster city Saturday evening, police said.
Police said a man was walking on Hensel Avenue near East Grant Street around 7:20 p.m. when two men wearing dark clothes approached him and displayed handguns.
Police said the men took cash and......
2011-05-12 10:33:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A young woman was assaulted and robbed in the city Tuesday night, police said.
The 18-year-old was walking in the 400 block of West Vine Street at 10:40 p.m. when a robber approached her from behind, city police said.
The robber hit the woman in the face with his fist, causing a l......
2011-05-10 08:11:00
STAFF
A man brandishing a handgun robbed a restaurant in Columbia, police reported.
The robber entered the Dairy Queen at 1624 Lancaster Ave. on Saturday at 10 p.m., which is the restaurant's closing time, Columbia Borough police said.
He ordered employees to lie on the floor while he f......
2011-05-05 06:21:00
Ryan Robinson
Police are investigating a robbery at an East Hempfield Township diner at about the time it was struck by fire Wednesday night, police said. At 9:52 p.m., Lancaster County-Wide Communications received reports of a working building fire at West Lancaster Diner, 2931 Columbia Ave., township po......
2011-05-03 22:53:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
The "two sides" of convicted robber Edward S. Zimmerman were on display Tuesday in Lancaster County Court.
The 19-year-old is a former Army recruit who, according to one soldier, was a future leader in the armed forces.
And then there is the young man who terrorized an elderly cou......
2011-04-28 09:05:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Chester County man is charged with four armed robberies of the same convenience store near Gap, state police said.
James Gerald Ashby, 32, of 530 Ridge Ave., Atglen, robbed the Turkey Hill store at 941 Route 41 on March 21 and March 30, police said. He hit the same store Nov. 10, 2008, ......
2011-04-24 19:37:00
STAFF
Summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Intelligencer Journal and Lancaster New Era appear in this space each Monday. They are researched and compiled by staff member Tim Buckwalter. Full versions are available on microfilm at the Lancaster Public Library, 125 N. Duke St....
2011-04-23 23:45:00
STAFF
DUI
EAST LAMPETER TWP.: Glenn Eugene Wimer, 54, of Strasburg, was arrested Saturday for DUI after a traffic stop on Strasburg Pike south of Route 462, state police said.
EARL TWP.:...
2011-04-20 20:23:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
An East Lampeter Township bank is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of an armed robber.
Wheatland Federal Credit Union, through its insurance carrier, is offering the $10,000 reward.
Police say a man robbed the bank branch in the 500 block of G......
2011-04-18 22:42:00
STAFF REPORT
A Hummelstown man wanted on an East Hempfield Township home-invasion robbery in January turned himself in to police Monday.
Angelo Gonzalez, 25, was charged by township police with robbery, burglary, aggravated assault and violation of the Uniform Firearms Act.
He was arraigned be......
2011-04-14 22:04:00
JENNIFER TODD
A man accused of an armed home-invasion robbery Wednesday night in Lancaster city had been to the home earlier in the day, police said.
Investigators said Jarvis Jermaine Jamison knew the 20-year-old man and 19-year-old woman and visited their home in the 200 block of East New Street Wedn......
