2009-07-04 10:04:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A sex offender faces a Megan's Law violation charge after police say he failed to report his recent whereabouts.City police on Thursday charged Ismael Antonetti-Ortiz, 61, of 648 Marietta Ave., Apt. 1, with failure to comply with registration of sexual offender requirements.City......
2009-07-03 20:21:00
JANET KELLEY
A tiny tan Chihuahua puppy "with droopy ears" has apparently found a new home — but not legally.The puppy was reported stolen Wednesday afternoon from PJ's Pet Shop, 109 Doe Run Road, Manheim.Niki Hilt, co-owner of the pet store, said Friday she had just brought ......
2009-07-03 20:21:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A tanker truck carrying farm-fresh milk overturned Friday, dumping part of its cargo.The truck, owned by O'Donnell Brothers Transportation Inc. of Quarryville, was carrying 42,000 pounds of milk when the trailer overturned on Spooky Nook Road at Prospect Road around 9:45 a.m.About 2......
2009-07-03 20:21:00
STAFF REPORT
A Conestoga woman called state police on Thursday, telling them that her ex-boyfriend had abducted her 2-year-old child.But state troopers quickly figured out that Christiana Nicole Leakway didn't have any children.And her motive for reporting the abduction, troopers said, was t......
2009-07-03 20:21:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Lancaster County Drug Task Force officers said they apprehended three suspected drug dealers in the city on Thursday.Police said they seized 26 pounds of marijuana, eight packets of heroin, a gun, $5,884 cash and various suspected drug paraphernalia.Joseph A. Suggs, 21, and Mayra Iv......
2009-07-03 20:21:00
JANET KELLEY
Manheim Township police said they arrested a Reading man early Friday after a brief chase by car and on foot.Cory C. Rodriguez, 18, was charged with receiving stolen property and fleeing or attempting to elude police, police said.A 17-year-old West Lawn boy, who was with Rodriguez, ......
2009-07-03 00:16:00
TOM MURSE
A burglar or burglars stole computer equipment from Pep Boys Automotive in the Red Rose Commons shopping center earlier this week, but company officials say no sensitive customer data was stored on the machines."Pep Boys understands the sensitivity of customer data," Alex Spooner......
2009-07-03 00:11:00
STAFF REPORT
A New Holland man was killed when two pickup trucks collided Tuesday morning on Route 23 near Morgantown in Berks County, according to the Reading Eagle newspaper's Web site.Denton E. Conklin Jr., 52, 90 Ashlea Gardens, was pronounced dead at the scene at 7 a.m. by Berks County Deputy ......
2009-07-03 00:07:00
RYAN ROBINSON
After allegedly being caught red-handed breaking into a vehicle in East Lampeter Township, two Lancaster brothers now face additional charges in another municipality.Manheim Township police have charged Erle Carrion-Cruz Jr., 28, of East King Street, with one count of theft from a vehicle,......
2009-07-02 10:08:00
JANET KELLEY
A former Manheim Township policeman was sentenced Wednesday to 10 to 19 years in prison for sexually molesting and propositioning teenagers while working as a police officer in Perry County.Robert J. Pavlovich Jr., 41, was convicted in October of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, ind......
2009-07-02 10:07:00
TOM KNAPP
Municipalities that don't have their own police departments soon may be asked to pick up the cost of state police coverage.A measure to impose fees on those municipalities — about 20 percent of those in Pennsylvania, including several townships in Lancaster County — passed ......
2009-07-02 00:26:00
JANET KELLEY
In shooting one man, John C. Coulson Jr. saved the life of another, the Lancaster judge was told.But Coulson, a 60-year-old Vietnam veteran, was not allowed to possess a gun, let alone shoot it.On Wednesday, Coulson was sentenced in Lancaster County Court to 5 to 10 years in state p......
2009-07-02 00:11:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A shooting and a stabbing happened in Lancaster city Wednesday within about eight hours.Both victims survived, though the shooting victim was in critical condition.Police did not identify either victim.Police learned of the shooting about 5 a.m. after a 48-year-old man drove ......
2009-07-02 00:08:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Apparently, it's hazardous being a robber these days.Just ask Elvin Perez Jr., who is wanted for the robberies of pizza delivery people on three successive nights in March in East Hempfield and Manheim townships and Lancaster city, police said.Perez, 19, allegedly pointed a gun ......
2009-07-02 00:06:00
CINDY STAUFFER
An 18-year-old Mount Joy man has been charged with theft in a recent series of vehicle break-ins in West Hempfield Township, police said.West Hempfield police said they arrested Jeffrey Lee Thomas Tuesday after getting a tip from an informant about recent car break-ins in the township.......
2009-07-01 00:36:00
CINDY STAUFFER
It was a hoagie that caused the woman to "flip out" last week at a Manheim Township pizza place."She said that the meat and the cheese were touching," says an employee of J&R Pizza, 852 Plaza Blvd.The shop tried to fix the problem, but then the woman's fr......
2009-07-01 00:27:00
DIANA MARTIN
Charges have been filed against a Lancaster woman who police say was operating the motorcycle that struck and critically injured a pedestrian June 1.Marie C. Veda, 33, was charged earlier this week with two counts of driving under the influence. Her blood-alcohol level was 0.21 percent, po......
2009-07-01 00:06:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Their modus operandi was simple.Pick a car in a parking lot in broad daylight.One person stands watch.The other breaks a car window to gain access and takes anything of value.The "smash-and-grab" method, as police call it, worked for a time, but time ran out ......
2009-07-01 00:04:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Someone poured sugar into the gas tank of an Ephrata Township resident's sport utility vehicle late Sunday or early Monday, police said, causing $8,000 in damage.The sugar damaged the fuel lines and carburetor of a 2005 GMC Yukon Denali belonging to a man who lives in an apartment comp......
2009-06-30 10:28:00
Staff
Someone poured sugar into the gas tank of an Ephrata resident's car, causing $8,000 in damage. The incident happened between 11 p.m. Sunday and 4 a.m. Monday in the parking lot of an apartment complex on Lincoln Heights Avenue. Ephrata Police are investigating, and asking for informati......
2009-06-30 00:33:00
JENNIFER TODD
A body pulled from the Conestoga River Monday night had been in the water for a long time, making it difficult for investigators to immediately determine whether the deceased is a male or female, city police said.Sgt. Mark Radmore said the body, discovered by fishermen around 6 p.m., appea......
2009-06-30 00:27:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two people remain hospitalized, one in critical condition, after a two-car collision in Mount Joy Township on Friday.The crash occurred along Route 230, just east of Cloverleaf Road, Northwest Regional Police Chief Sam Gatchell said Monday.Diego V. Jimenez, 72, of Mount Joy was pull......
2009-06-30 00:26:00
JANET KELLEY
A city man was sentenced Monday to 6 to 23 months in county prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting a young girl.Benigno Ayala pleaded guilty in March in Lancaster County Court to one count each of indecent assault and corruption of minors.Before imposing sentence, Judge Howard F.......
2009-06-29 00:01:00
STAFF
Summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Intelligencer Journal and 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 County Library, 125 N. Duke St....
2009-06-28 00:18:00
STAFF
An East Earl Township girl has died of her injuries after a collision with a tractor-trailer around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Michelle Hurst, 5, her mother, Maryann, and Michelle's two brothers, were riding on their bicycles along a section of Lancaster Avenue, Terre Hill, when Michelle's bicycle st......
2009-06-27 00:49:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Five people were injured in a two-car collision in Mount Joy Township Friday.According to Lt. Mark Mayberry of the Northwest Regional Police, the accident occurred just east of Route 230 and Cloverleaf Road when one of the vehicles pulled into the path of another.A female victim was......
2009-06-27 00:27:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A 20-year-old Lancaster city man remained hospitalized Friday evening after an early morning shooting on North Ann Street.The victim, whose name has not been released, was dropped off at Lancaster General Hospital's emergency room at 2:51 a.m. Friday by a woman driving a gray vehicle. ......
2009-06-26 00:29:00
STAFF REPORT
Police in West Earl Township are seeking the driver of a pickup truck that struck a bicyclist Tuesday morning.Gregory Paulson, 63, of Lancaster, was riding his bike south on South Farmersville Road when he was struck by a truck traveling in the same direction, police said.The incide......
2009-06-25 00:47:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster city man was recovering in a local hospital Wednesday after being struck by a hit-and-run driver Saturday night in Millersville Borough.Jason Vasquez, 25, was working on West Charlotte Street at Municipal Drive when a car struck him about 10:30 p.m., police said.Millersv......
2009-06-25 00:43:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 5-year-old Terre Hill girl was critically injured Wednesday when the bicycle she was riding struck a tractor-trailer, officials said.The young cyclist turned into the rear axle of a New Holland Tire trailer while riding near her home on Lancaster Avenue, East Earl Township police said....
2009-06-24 00:56:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Steelton man is charged with possessing PCP after he told police Monday during a casual conversation that he had drugs in his car.Eugene A. Green, 22, was stopped for following another vehicle too closely on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Brecknock Township, and revealed the incriminating ......
2009-06-24 00:53:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Two trailers broke loose from a UPS delivery rig after its driver veered off Route 222 late Monday in West Earl Township, officials said.Luis Costa of Kenilworth, N.J., was driving the rig south on the highway when he veered onto the center median for an unknown reason just before midnight......
2009-06-24 00:51:00
STAFF REPORT
An Ephrata motorist crashed a Jeep Liberty Tuesday evening into an embankment on Lincoln Road in Clay Township.Police said the male driver was believed to be driving under the influence of alcohol.He was taken to a local hospital for blood tests that weren't returned by late Tue......
2009-06-24 00:48:00
STAFF REPORT
Three people were hospitalized after a minivan struck a produce truck Tuesday morning in West Earl Township.Police say Courtney Morton, 28, of Manheim, and her 2-year-old son were in the minivan when it struck the Four Seasons truck in the 4400 block of Oregon Pike.The truck driver,......
2009-06-24 00:01:00
BILL HANNEGAN
Two police officers who protect the City of Lancaster dream of achieving Olympic gold.They imagine shooting and blocking shots at the net in indoor volleyball competition at the 2009 World Police & Fire Games in Vancouver, Canada.Jose De La Torre and Todd Dickinson are scheduled......
2009-06-23 10:42:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Police in Millersville said they're looking for a driver who struck and injured a man Saturday, before speeding off. Sgt. Howard Bauman said a 25-year-old Roto Rooter employee was checking a sewer clog in the roadway at the intersection of West Charles Street and Municipal Drive when the ca......
2009-06-23 01:16:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 21-year-old concertgoer stuffed into the luggage compartment of a commercial bus in New Jersey was discovered in Lancaster County as the vehicle traveled through West Hempfield Township, police said.The bus driver found the man onboard about 2 a.m. Sunday in West Hempfield after a journe......
2009-06-23 01:07:00
MICHAEL YODER
A man on Lafayette Street shot at a moving minivan Monday afternoon, wounding the female driver, investigators said.Police said the victim was taken to Lancaster General Hospital, where she was in fair condition.The shooting occurred around 3:30 p.m. in the 400 block of Lafayette St......
2009-06-23 01:03:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A woman stole tip money from a city sandwich shop Saturday night and attacked an employee who tried to stop her getaway, police said.Natalie Smarsh, 36, allegedly took $8 from a tip jar inside Captain Gus's Steak Shop, 600 W. Orange St., then bit and scratched a female employee who con......
2009-06-23 00:12:00
JENNIFER TODD
An Ephrata woman has died from injuries she sustained in a vehicle accident Sunday night in Warwick Township, police said.Sheila R. Moyer, 37, died at Lancaster General Hospital's trauma unit, where she was taken by helicopter after the crash, which occurred about 8 p.m.Warwick ......
2009-06-22 00:09:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Moments after pulling a drowning woman from her backyard pool, Donny Drennen stayed humble Sunday night as he watched a television program from his living room in Lancaster city."I'm no hero or anything," Drennen said, minutes after he rescued Lydia Ortiz, 51, from a wading p......
2009-06-22 00:08:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Two feuding motorists brawled in an Ephrata Borough parking lot before one man pulled a knife and stabbed the other in the neck, investigators said.Ephrata police Chief William Harvey said a "road rage" incident on South State Street led to the stabbing at Brights Family Restaura......
2009-06-21 00:18:00
STAFF
Two women were injured in a three-vehicle accident early Saturday morning in Upper Leacock Township. East Lampeter Township Police officer Charles Wildt said a car driven by Chrystal Kemery, 30, of New Holland, was eastbound in the the 200 block of East Main Street when her vehicle veered into ......
2009-06-21 00:17:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER and PAUL FRANZ, Staff Writers
A New Holland man led police in hot pursuit early Saturday morning before, police said, he deliberately crashed his car into a police vehicle. "I'm lucky to be alive," said Officer Wendell Metzler, of the New Holland Borough Police Department. State police at Lancaster were t......
2009-06-20 00:41:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The search is on for a Lancaster woman missing since last week.Mary Nguyen, 77, of the 100 Block Garden City Drive, has not been seen since she left her office at the Office of Aging, 150 N. Queen St., at about 9 a.m. June 8.According to her family, Nguyen suffers from dementia.......
2009-06-20 00:36:00
MICHAEL YODER
A bizarre traffic accident left East King Street residents without power for several hours Friday evening.According to police, an argument in a car between a male passenger and the female driver led to the man grabbing the steering wheel and intentionally spinning it. That caused the car t......
2009-06-19 12:05:00
STAFF and WIRE REPORTS
A Columbia policeman charged with driving drunk in York County will try to enter a program for first-time offenders, according to his attorney. Daniel C. Bell, 35, is accused of crashing his Jeep into a parked car in Hellam Township in May, then leaving the scene of the accident. Investigators ......
2009-06-18 00:31:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Bones found by a trapper Tuesday in a section of woods in Pequea Township are the remains of a bear, officials determined Wednesday.The foot and ankle bones appeared to be human remains, so police and a Lancaster County forensic team responded to the site in the 3500 block of Willow Street......
2009-06-18 00:28:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Police believe they have arrested the knife-wielding bandit responsible for slashing a teenage clerk during a recent string of violent holdups.The suspect, Andrew Stephen Johns, 21, was captured Tuesday in Penn Township. He was free on bail after Manheim Borough and Warwick Township police......
2009-06-17 11:05:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Thefts from cars are on the rise here, but police say they can't seem to convince people to be more careful with their property. "In most of the cases, something valuable inside the vehicle was left in plain view or the vehicle was unlocked," Manheim Township police spokesma......
2009-06-17 01:11:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A third suspect allegedly involved in a break-in at an elderly woman's home in April was nabbed Tuesday outside a Denver hotel.Adalberto Rodriguez, 34, was arrested about 3 p.m. in the parking lot of an Econo Lodge on Route 272 near the Pennsylvania Turnpike, investigators said.......
2009-06-16 11:26:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Christy Mirack has been dead for almost 17 years but her family hopes she has "friends" who can help to solve her murder. They are reaching out to them via the social networking site Facebook, where people accumulate friends and post messages and photos online. Mirack now has her......
2009-06-16 09:50:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Why would someone steal a 16-foot cattle trailer? That's the question police are asking in the wake of a theft in Elizabethtown over the weekend. Northwest Regional Police, who are investigating the incident, say they can think of at least one reason. "Someone might be thinki......
2009-06-16 00:46:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
An alleged underage drinker drove the wrong way for about 10 miles on Route 283, narrowly avoiding head-on collisions before crashing in Mount Joy Township.Jenilee Kathryn Alleman, 20, of Elizabethtown, allegedly drove west through three townships on the eastbound lanes of the highway earl......
2009-06-16 00:42:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A team of officers and a police K-9 unit scoured a patch of woods in Mount Joy Township for several hours this weekend before realizing that a report of a gunman on the loose was a hoax.The incident began Friday night when a 911 caller reported his son, 18-year-old Brian Fry, was being cha......
2009-06-16 00:32:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
An elderly couple was killed Monday morning in a single-vehicle crash on Route 23, just east of Churchtown, officials said.Paul and Josephine Faithful, each 86, died when the car they were in went into a ditch and struck a large piece of concrete about 10:30 a.m. in Caernarvon Township....
2009-06-16 00:31:00
CINDY HUMMEL
Lampeter-Strasburg High School students in extracurricular activities this fall will be subject to random drug testing.The L-S school board, in a 6-2 vote Monday night, approved new drug policies for the district, including random drug testing for students in extracurricular activities or ......
2009-06-13 00:46:00
PATRICK BURNS
East Lampeter Township police said a 2-year-old child was killed Friday when the child was run over by a vehicle in a driveway outside a home in the 900 block of Hartman Station Road.Police said the child was struck about 5 p.m. by a truck driven by someone not related to the child.......
2009-06-13 00:36:00
PATRICK BURNS
A crash involving three vehicles on Interstate 78 in Upper Macungie Township sent a 39-year-old Lancaster man and four young passengers in his vehicle to the hospital early Friday.State police at Fogelsville reported that a 12-year-old boy, who was traveling in a vehicle driven by Esteban ......
2009-06-12 01:21:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A robber shot a 30-year-old female clerk Wednesday night inside a corner convenience store in Lancaster city, police said Thursday.The woman was working alone inside Los Muchachos at 158 S. Queen St. when a man with a handgun shot her once in the stomach.She underwent emergency surg......
2009-06-12 01:17:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Surely, veteran police officer Diane Carter has heard countless answers to the question, "Do you know why I stopped you?" when she pulls over speeders.Rarely does she get the response, "My daughter's in labor!"That's how Arlene Difilippo replied when the ......
2009-06-12 01:16:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Maryland man has been charged with writing bad checks at more than 10 Lancaster County businesses in nine townships, including several Amish-owned stores.Kenneth William Gleason Jr., 39, of Cockeysville, Md., is accused of writing checks on closed accounts to purchase goods worth more th......
2009-06-11 01:04:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A robber slashed a clerk during a convenience store holdup Wednesday night, Manheim Township police said.A white man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt robbed the Hess Express at 3180 Oregon Pike, near Oregon Road, at 9:45 p.m., according to officials. He displayed a knife and slashed the t......
2009-06-10 10:27:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Detectives arrested a Lampeter man and charged him with heroin possession Monday after investigating officers observed him allegedly slipping pill bottles into one of his pockets, police said. Lancaster County Drug Task Force detectives and police officers said they followed the suspect, ......
2009-06-10 01:57:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A "sexually violent predator" who had been out of contact with local authorities since last year was found Tuesday in Lancaster Township.Richard Scott Wannamaker, a convicted sex offender, was required to provide state police with his address after release from prison.Inve......
2009-06-10 01:56:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Thieves recently stole four commercial lawn mowers worth almost $50,000 from a farm-equipment business in Mount Joy Township.Police believe they were taken by a group of thieves who likely scouted out Messick's Farm Equipment on Merts Drive before swiping the tractors.Investigat......
2009-06-10 01:43:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Gun owners living in Lancaster city now have 72 hours to tell police if they discover their firearms have been stolen, or they could be sent to prison.Mayor Rick Gray said the law, unanimously passed Tuesday by City Council, does not regulate a person's right to own firearms, but simpl......
2009-06-09 11:20:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A Columbia police detective who has been charged with drunk driving was demoted Monday night to a patrolman by borough officials. Borough officials also decided that if Daniel C. Bell's license is suspended as a result of the charges, he would be suspended without pay during the license sus......
2009-06-09 20:12:00
P.J. REILLY
Correction — The story below, posted on LancasterOnline Tuesday, incorrectly stated the location of the tunnels on Route 272. They are in Providence Township.•••Pequea Townshi......
2009-06-09 09:30:00
STAFF
Police in Manheim Township are on the lookout for a man who broke into a business then abrubtly left the scene empty-handed. Investigators said the break-in occurred at T-Mobile, 250 Granite Run Drive, Saturday, May 30 around 1:15 a.m. Police said they found one of the front windows had be......
2009-06-09 00:52:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A young Amish boy was crushed to death after falling from a horse-drawn buggy Sunday in Salisbury Township, investigators said Monday.Eli K. Lapp, 4, of Gordonville, was riding in the buggy when he fell to his death about 4 p.m., investigators said. State police Cpl. Derek Koch said the ac......
2009-06-09 00:51:00
MICHAEL YODER
Bob Desmarais is concerned about crime in his neighborhood of School Lane Hills and the best way to provide police coverage in Lancaster Township.It's an ongoing debate in a municipality that relies on outside sources for police protection."The concern we have is patrolling......
2009-06-09 00:41:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A brazen robber held up a Lancaster city bank Monday morning and fled with cash, investigators said.The man wore no mask or disguise when he robbed PNC Bank at 949 E. King St. just after 10:30 a.m., investigators said.He gave a female teller a note stating he had a gun and wanted mo......
2009-06-08 00:09:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A four-alarm blaze forced tenants of a large apartment complex near center-city Lancaster onto the streets Sunday.City police and fire officials said they rescued between 10 and 20 tenants from Stevens House Condominiums, including a man taken from the roof and another sick occupant who wa......
2009-06-06 01:31:00
TOM KNAPP
A 35-year-old Lancaster man, already on the run for an alleged assault on his girlfriend, apparently returned to the scene of the crime Friday and set his apartment on fire, police said.Matthew Scott Gardopee, of 620 W. Walnut St., Apt. 1, turned himself in to police shortly before noon on......
2009-06-06 01:23:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Three people were injured in a collision between a car and a tractor-trailer at Schoeneck and Hackman roads in West Cocalico Township on Friday night, according to East Cocalico Township police.Police said the 7:39 p.m. wreck occurred when a 17-year-old female from Ephrata lost control of ......
2009-06-06 01:21:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Lancaster city police have arrested a man who allegedly shot another man in a drive-by shooting last week.Joseph Anthony Hunter IV, 20, of the 300 block of Beaver Street, was arrested Friday morning at his home, according to a news release.Hunter is accused of shooting a man who had......
2009-06-05 10:54:00
CINDY STAUFFER
It's been more than seven years since Brenda Heist walked out of her Lititz home on a February day, leaving behind two children, a husband, laundry sorted into neat piles and pork chops thawing in her refrigerator. Police found her car five days later, near a York bus station, but never fou......
2009-06-05 15:25:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An Akron man was arrested by the state Attorney General's Office for allegedly using the Internet to send explicit photos to what he believed was a 13-year-old girl. Christopher L. Hassler, 24, of 103 N. 10th St., Akron, allegedly used an online chat room to approach an undercover agent who was......
2009-06-05 01:41:00
TOM KNAPP
An ongoing dispute over police matters in East Hempfield Township heated up again Wednesday as board members and residents bickered and a top Republican official chastised supervisors for humiliating a township police officer in a public forum.Although the board was supposed to focus on po......
2009-06-04 00:23:00
JENNIFER TODD
Residents of West Hempfield Township were targets Tuesday of a bogus church collection drive, police said.Residents of the 4000 block of Woodcrest Lane reported a man was going door to door asking for monetary donations for St. Leo the Great Church, West Hempfield police said.The ma......
2009-06-03 11:17:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Beware of anyone selling hoagies door-to-door for charity, police said –— they could be full of baloney. Some residents in Manor Township and Millersville told police that they ordered hoagies from young people who claimed to be raising funds for St. Leo the Great Catholic Church, 2......
2009-06-03 00:54:00
MICHAEL YODER
A drug deal gone awry was the cause of a shooting that left a man dead in the parking lot of Farnum Towers two weeks ago, city police said.However, police are not charging the teenage shooter, Jerry James, in the death of Thomas Ray Brown III — because, they said, James was defending......
2009-06-03 00:36:00
MICHAEL YODER
A Lancaster woman wanted in connection with a home invasion in East Donegal Township surrendered to police Tuesday.Jennifer Goldsborough, 28, of Lancaster, called city police to surrender at her home, where she was taken into custody without incident, Susquehanna Regional police Lt. Stephe......
2009-06-02 01:13:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Investigators have charged a woman with homicide for allegedly killing her husband May 9.The charges were brought against Tonya L. Potter even though her husband, Robert Potter, died after declining treatment from first-responders who were called to their home after his wife allegedly assa......
2009-06-02 01:11:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A convicted sex offender on the lam since being released from prison in March is back in Lancaster County Prison after he was arrested late last week.Randy-Jay Jones, 31, served a 17-month sentence for a bizarre 2007 robbery in Lancaster city in which he sexually assaulted a woman, took he......
2009-06-02 01:02:00
MICHAEL YODER
An accident Monday night on Lititz Pike sent a motorcyclist and a pedestrian to the hospital with severe injuries and shut down the busy road for several hours.Manheim Township police Sgt. Tom Rudzinski said there were "definitely life-threatening injuries for the motorcyclist," ......
2009-06-02 00:58:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
One of three suspects in an April home invasion in East Donegal Township is in custody, and investigators have filed arrest warrants for the other two.Susquehanna Regional police said Monday that the three suspects were involved in a break-in at an elderly woman's home on Long Lane. Th......
2009-06-01 11:43:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A city police officer shot a dog Sunday morning, wounding it, when it came running toward him. The owner of the pit bull terrier said the officer overreacted and he wants the city to pay for veterinarian bills, which are $1,500 and rising. "Just because you have a gun on your hip does......
2009-06-01 00:27:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Jessica Eschegoyen is beginning to feel that her Rapho Township home has become an extension of Route 772.On Saturday, a motorcyclist veered off what neighbors call a "dangerous" section of the road and onto the Eschegoyen's property.Sunday night, there was a much clos......
2009-05-31 00:17:00
STAFF
A 12-year-old boy was injured Saturday afternoon in a farming accident in Leola. Amos Stoltzfus, 12, son of Levi and Naomi Stoltzfus, of Center Square Road, became caught under a harrow hay baler around 4:15 p.m. The boy was airlifted to Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center with a broken......
2009-05-31 00:14:00
JON RUTTER and PAUL FRANZ
Joe Karaback was awakened late Friday night by a loud crash. "It was an awful noise," he said. "It was a big bang." At first, he thought his wife, Carolyn, fell. But a car being pursued by police had just drifted onto their property, knocking down azalea bushes ......
2009-05-30 01:12:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A registered sex offender was in Lancaster County Prison Friday after he allegedly attempted to lure a boy into a city parking garage elevator Thursday morning, police said.John Edward Snyder, 42, of Lancaster, who is registered as a offender under Megan's Law, is accused of attempting......
2009-05-30 01:08:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster County judge set bail at $1 million Friday for a robbery suspect who engaged police in a standoff earlier this week in Lancaster city.Kevin D. Gray, 21, was in Lancaster County Prison and hadn't posted bail as of Friday night.Judge Howard F. Knisely said he ordered t......
2009-05-30 01:02:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Lancaster County Prison Warden Vincent Guarini does not deny that one of his guards repeatedly struck an inmate who was chained to a hospital bed.But claims that the prison has a "culture of ongoing unconstitutional abuse," as cited in a civil lawsuit, are "attorney embellis......
2009-05-29 01:23:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
J.D. Shaeffer, a self-proclaimed "country boy," had been zapped by electrified fences countless times while hanging around farms as a young man.Surely, a 5-second jolt from a Taser couldn't be much worse than that, the veteran Lancaster city policeman thought.He was wr......
2009-05-29 01:09:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A former inmate at Lancaster County Prison claims he was beaten by a prison guard while shackled to a hospital bed last summer.According to a lawsuit filed May 20 by Vance Laughman, 36, of 44 W. Liberty St., Silvestre Villarreal, a guard at the prison at the time of the alleged beating, &q......
2009-05-28 10:55:00
JACK BRUBAKER
A Lancaster County Prison guard last August severely beat a prison inmate who had been shackled to a hospital bed, according to criminal and civil complaints. Silvestre Villarreal, a longtime prison guard who weighs about 200 pounds, climbed on a bed at Lancaster General Hospital and straddled ......
2009-05-28 00:53:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Police on Wednesday accused a former Lititz mayoral candidate who also served as the youth group leader at a borough church of having a sexual relationship with a pre-teen girl.Gregory J. Nies, 56, of South Spruce Street, was arraigned Wednesday morning on two felonies and two misdemeanors......
2009-05-28 00:52:00
CIVIA KATZ, Correspondent and and JENNIFER TODD, Staff Writer
About a dozen Manheim Central High School seniors have been banned from commencement activities because of an underage drinking incident that occurred May 15, according to district officials and parents.Some of the students and their parents attended Tuesday's school board meeting to a......
2009-05-28 00:49:00
MICHAEL YODER
A Lancaster man wanted on two warrants kept dozens of officers searching for hours Wednesday afternoon before a police dog sniffed him out.Police shut down a city block and two nearby schools went into lockdown before Kevin Dominique Gray, 21, of 328 S. Ann St., was taken into custody abou......
2009-05-28 00:44:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
A veterinarian accused of mutilating a puppy's tail pleaded not guilty to an animal-cruelty charge Wednesday in Lancaster County Court.Dr. Thomas F. Stevenson, of Twin Valley Veterinary Clinic in Honey Brook, faces up to 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine if convicted of the misdemea......
2009-05-27 14:03:00
STAFF
State and city police were surrounding a home in the 300 block of South Ann Street this afternoon. Police with shields and rifles ordered residents in the block away from the windows of their homes. An ambulance was sent to the scene at 1:15 p.m. though there were no reports of injuries. A......
2009-05-27 01:17:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A former teacher at the Lancaster County Career & Technology Center has been charged with more than 100 misdemeanors for allegedly stealing tuition payments from students, according to court documents.Kenneth R. Umbrell, 57, of Christiana, allegedly ran the two-year scam while employed......
2009-05-27 01:14:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Columbia Borough police are looking for a man who they say seriously injured another man Friday in a stabbing on Locust Street.Investigators this week identified the fugitive as Theodore "T.J." Ortman III, a longtime Columbia resident with a long list of prior criminal offenses....
2009-05-26 11:06:00
JANET KELLEY
They beat him, kidnapped him, robbed him and then beat him again, leaving him hurt and bleeding in a church parking lot. "I do feel bad for what I did," Brett Michael Bair told a Lancaster County judge this morning, admitting to ambushing the 24-year-old victim in the parking lot of O......
2009-05-26 13:36:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Wanted: Man in his underwear. A man fled city police, dropping his shorts in the process, early today. The man was riding a bicycle the wrong way down the 400 block of Locust Street just before 1 a.m. today, when he was spotted by city police officers Anthony Weaver and Matt Odenthal....
2009-05-26 00:26:00
STAFF REPORT
Police in West Hempfield Township are investigating a series of vandalism incidents that occurred over the holiday weekend.On Friday night, four vehicles parked in the 300 block of Primrose Lane in Mountville were sprayed with gray paint, police said.On Saturday night, three inciden......
2009-05-24 00:15:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
West Donegal Township supervisor Roger Snyder is turning to the courts once again to seek damages for what he says are violations of his civil rights. This time, he is taking on the Pennsylvania's State Ethics Commission. Filed last week by Harrisburg attorney Andrew Ostrowski, Snyder&......
2009-05-22 11:38:00
JANET KELLEY
Two out of three isn't bad. But the arrest of a third suspect in a burglary that occurred earlier this month in East Petersburg makes the prosecutor's case complete. Matthew A. Rowley, 18, of South Ann Street, was charged Tuesday in a house burglary in the 6400 block of Lemon St......
2009-05-22 01:03:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster man was killed in a barrage of bullets early Thursday in the parking lot of a city apartment building.City police received several 911 calls for multiple shots fired about 12:30 a.m. and found Thomas Ray Brown III dead in the lot of Farnum Towers, a high-rise at East Farnum and......
2009-05-21 01:31:00
MICHAEL YODER
A Manheim Township graduate is facing more than a year in federal prison and the prospect of more jail time for allegedly defrauding investors in Texas and Florida to the tune of $55 million.Jeffrey Charles Bruteyn, 38, of Lancaster, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Philadelphia......
2009-05-21 01:27:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
New Holland police filed charges against two men in connection with separate incidents in Earl Township.Philip H. Martin, 22, was charged with fleeing police on an all-terrain vehicle — at speeds up to 50 mph. He passed moving vehicles on Route 23, police said, before being captured ......
2009-05-21 01:22:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Lancaster city police made three arrests Tuesday night after a "random street robbery" that netted a big haul for one alleged criminal — until officers arrived.A 20-year-old city resident was jumped about 9:30 p.m. in the 500 block of Zook Avenue and robbed of thousands of ......
2009-05-21 01:16:00
TOM KNAPP
Helipads and heliports are off the map in East Hempfield Township.Township supervisors Wednesday voted 3-2 to approve a zoning amendment barring helicopter landing and storage facilities within municipal borders.Also, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints faces another del......
2009-05-21 00:58:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Psychologists call them "animal collectors" or "hoarders."On Tuesday afternoon, when 92 chow chow dogs were discovered caged, cramped and filthy in a small ranch house at 87 Linda Ave., just off Old Philadelphia Pike, this curious mental disorder suddenly became vividly......
2009-05-20 03:53:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 2-year-old girl was killed Tuesday in what investigators are calling an accident on an Amish farm in Strasburg Township.The girl was riding on a forklift with a relative when the machine toppled over, according to state police. The girl became pinned under the forklift and died on her fa......
2009-05-20 03:51:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A former all-star basketball player at McCaskey High School was sentenced Tuesday to state prison for dealing drugs.Anthony C. Hunter, 20, was sentenced to 2 to 4 years for being involved in cocaine and marijuana sales in Lancaster city.Hunter was among a group of people caught sell......
2009-05-20 03:48:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Police charged a third suspect Tuesday in the gang-related shooting in York that claimed the life of a 9-year-old Lancaster city girl.Two other men previously had been charged in connection with the homicide.Police allege Fernando Valentin Jr., 22, was involved in the fatal Mother&#......
2009-05-20 00:54:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
Ben Stiles sat motionless as emergency-service teams swarmed around him, removing pieces of his crashed vehicle, bit by bit.The counselor at Lancaster County Career & Technology Center's Willow Street campus soon would be carted out of the vehicle and taken to a SkyFlight Care heli......
2009-05-20 12:43:00
CARLA DI FONZO
State police are investigating the theft of two ATVs that were taken directly off the victims' property. In one incident, police said thieves entered a garage through an unlocked door in the 800 block of May Post Office Road in Strasburg Township. The stolen ATV is a 2002 Polaris Sport......
2009-05-19 11:05:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Reports of gunfire in the city Monday night resulted in the arrest of two teenagers who allegedly were drunk on brandy when they were taken into custody. Nathan A. Lewis, 19, of St. Joseph Street, and Devonte L. Hines, 18, of East Frederick Street, were arrested after the sound of gunfire led a......
2009-05-19 01:11:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A drunken driver with a blood-alcohol level about three times the legal limit hit two vehicles in Leola late Friday night, then drove off, police said.Police found James Markley Brown at his home soon after the hit-and-run wrecks in the first and second blocks of East Main Street.La......
2009-05-19 01:02:00
MICHAEL YODER
Despite her tragically brief life, Ciara Shay "CeCe" Savage used her short time on Earth to touch the lives of people of all ages.More than 250 people filled Bright Side Baptist Church Monday afternoon to remember the life of the 9-year-old Lancaster city girl senselessly killed ......
2009-05-19 00:42:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Christiana motorist turned into the path of a police car Sunday, causing a collision that sent the cruiser airborne off a Sadsbury Township road, police said.Frederick Keys' car also was forced off the road in the late-night crash just west of the Lancaster-Chester county line....
2009-05-19 00:27:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Two gunmen aided by a woman robbed a Columbia resident Friday night near Lancaster Catholic High School, investigators said Monday.Police said the 26-year-old victim was baited by the woman — an acquaintance — into stopping her vehicle at Juliette and Frances avenues, then robb......
2009-05-18 11:20:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A driver ended up in the hospital and a state police cruiser landed on its side, after an accident involving the cruiser and another car in Sadsbury Township Sunday night. The accident happened on Route 41, just outside Christiana, when two troopers from the Avondale barracks tried to pass a dr......
2009-05-18 20:19:00
STAFF
Correction — In the article below, posted on LancasterOnline on Sunday, the Sunday News erroneously reported the details of an alleged criminal trespass that happened at a property in the 400 block of New Holland Avenue on May 15. B......
2009-05-18 09:52:00
CARLA DI FONZO
An unidentified thief broke into three vehicles on the same street in Salisbury Township Saturday, police said. Between 1:30 and 8 a.m. Saturday, someone broke into two vehicles parked at 5811 Burkey Road, officials said. Police said the suspect stole a purse from a 2007 Honda Fit, then pr......
2009-05-17 00:20:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
By the end of May, Lancaster city police officers will be armed with Tasers. Officers are being trained to use the devices, which deliver a 50,000-volt charge capable of incapacitating a person, according to Sgt. Todd Umstead. "It's a nonlethal tool," city Chief Keith Sadl......
2009-05-16 01:52:00
STAFF REPORT
Four people were injured about 2 p.m. Friday when the vehicle they were riding in rolled over in the 900 block of Smokestown Road in East Cocalico Township, according to a news release by East Cocalico police.Police said a blue Kia sedan driven by Frank Suriano, 31, of Denver, was travelin......
2009-05-15 01:59:00
JEFF HAWKES
Bryan Hubbard says he wants to work himself out of a job.In this economy, that's a funny thing to say, but I don't doubt his sincerity.Hubbard works at the county's Youth Intervention Center. He's in charge of the programs for juveniles who are temporarily locked up ......
2009-05-15 01:39:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster County judge berated a mother Thursday for placing her 16-month-old son in a scalding-hot shower in 2007, causing second-degree burns and permanently scarring the boy.Judge Dennis E. Reinaker told Itza Figueroa-Saez she was given the break of a lifetime when a jury Monday acqui......
2009-05-15 01:34:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A second York teenager is in jail in connection with the shooting death of a 9-year-old Lancaster city girl.Skyler Handy, 19, of 3912 Sandra Drive, Springettsbury Township, was arrested and charged with homicide and criminal conspiracy in the Mother's Day shooting of Ciara Savage in Yo......
2009-05-15 01:17:00
STAFF REPORT
Charges were filed Wednesday against a Columbia police detective who is accused of causing an accident while intoxicated and leaving the scene of the wreck.Daniel Clayton Bell, 35, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, causing the property-damage accident and careless dr......
2009-05-15 01:16:00
STAFF REPORT
Emergency responders gathered around the cab of a tractor-trailer that overturned in the westbound lane of Route 772 under the Route 222 overpass near Brownstown about 8:30 p.m. Thursday.The vehicle, which was carrying a full load of bananas, was coming down the exit ramp off northbound Ro......
2009-05-15 01:11:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster County jury convicted Shannon Hess on Thursday of first-degree murder for the 2007 killing of his mother-in-law.Hess, a 31-year-old Willow Street man, looked down while his attorney patted his back as the jury foreman announced the verdict at 11:35 a.m.The verdict slip s......
2009-05-15 01:07:00
TIM STUHLDREHER
On May 8, a 47-year-old Lancaster man traveled to Harrisburg for what law-enforcement officials say he hoped would be a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl.Instead, Jere A. Brandt Jr., of 1389 Union St., was met by Swatara Township police and agents from the state Attorney General'......
2009-05-14 11:30:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Sharon Tell was 16 when her family moved to Lancaster, living in a nice, brick home in School Lane Hills. She enrolled at Lancaster Catholic High School, where she worked on the yearbook staff and sang in the choir. The dark-haired girl with the shy smile seemed like a regular teen in 1968......
2009-05-14 11:20:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Police in Ephrata caught up with a woman who allegedly stole money from a local business Wednesday. Officers said they escorted a 68-year-old Ephrata woman to Ephrata Community Hospital after charging her with one count of theft and one count of theft of services. According to a police ......
2009-05-14 00:58:00
TIM STUHLDREHER
A woman was so intent on falsely passing herself off as a pediatrician that she drew blood from her boyfriend's 6-year-old niece and recommended medical treatments, Ephrata police said Wednesday.Angelica Kamp, 29, was charged Wednesday with simple assault and unauthorized practice of m......
2009-05-14 00:51:00
TIM STUHLDREHER
Roger Rudolph of Mountville was recording in his basement music studio about 6 p.m. Wednesday when he heard "the loudest noise I've ever heard in my life."He ran upstairs and out the back door.A van had crashed into the corner of the house where he lives, at 38 E. Main......
2009-05-14 00:33:00
MICHAEL YODER
A Lancaster Township woman accused of an attack on her husband that allegedly led to his death Saturday is now facing charges from the incident.Tonya Lynese Potter, 41, of 1240 E. Orange St., was charged Tuesday with aggravated assault for allegedly attacking her husband, Robert Potter, 48......
2009-05-13 09:19:00
AD CRABLE
A Columbia Borough police detective was suspended from the police force without pay Tuesday, pending the outcome of allegations that he drove drunk and left the scene of an accident. Mayor Leo Lutz took the action against Detective Daniel C. Bell after borough officials learned that Hellam Town......
2009-05-13 00:52:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
One by one, friends and relatives passed through a Lancaster County courtroom Tuesday in defense of Shannon Hess, who is accused of killing his mother-in-law at their Willow Street home.First, a group of friends described Hess' reputation in his community as one of "peacefulness.&......
2009-05-12 01:27:00
MICHAEL YODER
Janet Pearson returned to her home Saturday morning after finishing the third shift at Lancaster General Hospital to find the horrific site of a mass of police and ambulances in her neighborhood.Not knowing what happened, Pearson approached the 12-year-old son of her neighbors, Robert and ......
2009-05-12 01:16:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The man sought in the shooting death of a 9-year-old Lancaster girl who was visiting relatives in York on Sunday has been arrested.Nigel Ali Maitland, 19, of 602 Smith St., York, surrendered to York city police about 7:30 p.m., according to Detective Jeff Spence. Maitland was transported t......
2009-05-12 00:52:00
PATRICK BURNS
A New Holland man was arrested Saturday and charged with molesting a child in East Earl Township.Joseph Benjamin Hock, 34, of 140 E. Main St., was charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault and corruption of minors.East Earl police Chief Kevin McCarthy sai......
2009-05-12 00:49:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster County jury on Monday convicted a mother of reckless endangerment for giving her 16-month-old son a scalding-hot shower in March 2007.Itza Mari Figueroa-Saez was found guilty of the misdemeanor charge but acquitted of a more serious charge — felony aggravated assault &mda......
2009-05-12 00:38:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A single sock shows accused killer Shannon Hess was present when his mother-in-law was stabbed and beaten to death, prosecutors argued Monday in Lancaster County Court.The bloody sock, which was taken off Hess's right foot hours after Barbara Fritchman was killed in 2007, was shown to ......
2009-05-12 00:01:00
Most would agree that Pennsylvania's state police are very good at what they do. They patrol highways, arrest bad guys, break up drug rings and respond when called.But as well-trained as they are, they cannot be in two places at the same time.Yet, they are being asked to do more......
2009-05-11 00:46:00
STAFF REPORT
A 9-year-old Lancaster city girl was shot and killed while playing with friends and relatives Sunday in York city, according to reports.Ciara Savage was shot in the back about 2:30 p.m. and died a short time later at York Hospital, according to the York Daily Record.The girl was vis......
2009-05-10 00:19:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
Everyone agrees on one thing: Roger Snyder used a West Donegal Township copying machine to reproduce his campaign literature. After that, all bets are off. That one act has generated a contentious lawsuit, pitted neighbor against neighbor, and brought notoriety to an otherwise quiet commun......
2009-05-10 00:16:00
STAFF
A 25-year-old Lancaster man was treated for a gunshot wound to the leg early Saturday morning, city police said. Police were called to the emergency room at Lancaster General Hospital at 3:47 a.m. The man, whose injury was not life-threatening, was treated and released. Police said th......
2009-05-10 00:16:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
In West Donegal Township they call it "Copygate." It began Nov. 1, 2007, when Supervisor Roger Snyder used a copier in the township's municipal building to run off copies (from 500 to 1,000 — the exact amount is in dispute) of four-color campaign fliers asking voters to r......
2009-05-10 00:16:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
A Columbia police detective left behind his badge and a gun after he crashed his vehicle into another vehicle in Hellam Township, York County, last Sunday. Hellam Township and Lower Windsor Township police said that Daniel C. Bell, 35, a 12-year veteran of the Columbia force, smelled of alcohol......
2009-05-09 01:31:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Several years ago during Thanksgiving week, Mary Nein called police and asked them to take her son, David — who was wanted on a parole violation — from her home.It was one of the hardest decisions she has ever made, Mary said, but one that eventually led David Nein to Water Str......
2009-05-09 01:23:00
PATRICK BURNS
A 32-year-old Lancaster man was charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl.Alfredo Juarez, 32, was charged by Lancaster city police with one count of indecent assault on a person less than 13 years of age.Juarez was arraigned Tuesday by District Judge Cheryl Hartman......
2009-05-09 01:21:00
PATRICK BURNS
A Lancaster woman allegedly smoked cocaine while she drove the wrong way on South Prince Street and led police on a five-mile chase early Wednesday morning.Tawanda M. Flowers, 44, of 480 Euclid Ave., Apt. K, was arrested in the Red Rose Commons Shopping Center after police flattened her ti......
2009-05-09 01:19:00
PATRICK BURNS
Pennsylvania State Police on Wednesday again arrested a Lancaster city man already accused of driving drunk and causing a head-on collision on Columbia Avenue last August that seriously injured a mother and her 10-year-old son.Andre Cole, 22, of 21 E. Lemon St., Apt. 1, was arrested Wednes......
2009-05-08 00:42:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Veronica Hess told a Lancaster County jury Thursday that her home and her car were broken into before her mother was brutally murdered in 2007.Bill Frank, the man with whom she was having an affair, broke into her home through a bedroom window using a credit card, Mrs. Hess told jurors. Fr......
2009-05-08 00:38:00
JENNIFER TODD
A man arrested for allegedly robbing a Wrightsville bank Tuesday is a suspect in the armed holdups of nearly a dozen other businesses in southcentral Pennsylvania, police said Thursday.Arien Jamal Moore, 22, of Chanceford Township, York County, was taken into custody shortly after police s......
2009-05-08 00:34:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A New York truck driver was found guilty Wednesday of causing a 2007 vehicle crash in Manheim Township that killed a mother and her daughter.A Lancaster County jury decided that Thomas Lamonda, 52, was guilty of two counts of homicide by vehicle in connection with the fatal collision on Or......
2009-05-07 18:03:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Correction — The article below, posted on LancasterOnline Thursday, identified federal court Judge Gene E.K. Pratter as a man. Pratter is a woman.•••A former police officer......
2009-05-07 02:06:00
TIM STUHLDREHER
A pizza delivery person was lured to a quiet neighborhood and robbed Thursday night, police said.A caller to Metro Express Pizza, 1244 Wabank Road, ordered a pizza for delivery to an address in the 1200 block of St. Joseph Street, police and a store manager said.However, when the de......
2009-05-07 01:46:00
TOM KNAPP
A question about public access to police records exploded into a firestorm of debate among residents and supervisors Wednesday in East Hempfield Township.At the center of the storm were charges that a police officer in the township was promoted to the rank of sergeant despite a protection ......
2009-05-07 01:45:00
TIM STUHLDREHER
Manheim Township police arrested two of the three youths they say were burglarizing houses Tuesday afternoon in East Petersburg.Jarred T. McGille-Myrie, 19, of 649 S. Anne St., was charged with burglary and conspiracy. Charges also are pending in juvenile court against a 17-year-old whose ......
2009-05-06 11:07:00
TOM MURSE
An off-duty Columbia police detective sideswiped a parked car in York County early Sunday morning and was found walking away from the scene a short time later, authorities said. Daniel Bell, a 12-year veteran of the force, was not seriously injured in the crash but was taken to York's Memor......
2009-05-06 11:01:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Police in Manheim Township said today they nabbed two alleged burglars after receiving helpful tips from concerned residents. Officers said they responded to reports of several suspicious individuals wearing hoods in the 6400 block of Lemon Street in East Petersburg just before 2:30 p.m. ......
2009-05-06 09:12:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
They "want to honor the people who came before us, and also honor the officers we have now." "Because they've all worked real hard." That's what Chief Todd Graeff, the third chief ever in Manor Township, says about those who have worn the township's police u......
2009-05-06 01:23:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
On the day Barbara Fritchman was killed in her Willow Street home, Donna Ferko-Fox drove by the house and was startled by an "angry" man outside.The man "jumped out" from behind a tree in front of the home at 53 E. Boehms Road, Ferko-Fox told a Lancaster County jury Tue......
2009-05-06 00:29:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Three men who killed a Lancaster city resident while stealing his big-screen television pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and numerous other charges Monday in county court.•••Three Lancaster city residents pleaded guilty this week t......
2009-05-05 11:51:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Susquehanna Regional Police said a concerned parent helped them solve a vandalism spree in Marietta. Lt. Stephen Englert said the estimated loss from the vandalism is approximately $2,100. "The parent of one of the juveniles became aware of what they did and reached us," Englert said today......
2009-05-05 00:56:00
JEFF HAWKES
Keoddi Wilson is only 12, too young to be thinking about college, but the right age to be impressed by Capt. Danny Castro — a fit, ramrod-straight commander of a North Philadelphia police precinct, cool and confident in a deep-blue uniform — and thinking, "Maybe I could be like h......
2009-05-05 00:44:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A "normal man living a normal life" turned into a killer in November 2007 when he found out his wife was having an affair, a prosecutor argued Monday in Lancaster County Court.The "hurt and angry husband" — 30-year-old Shannon Hess — responded to the betraya......
2009-05-05 00:28:00
STAFF REPORT
New Holland police are investigating a one-vehicle crash that occurred Monday on Peters Road in Earl Township.Police said that after the crash, the two occupants of the Jeep attempted to flee through a muddy field before they were taken into custody.Police Monday night had not yet c......
2009-05-05 00:26:00
PATRICK BURNS
A 45-year-old man from West Hempfield Township accused of making and distributing counterfeit money was arrested Saturday and sent to Lancaster County Prison.Timothy Shawn Hogan of Oak Hollow Drive was taken into custody Friday after West Hempfield Township police and agents from the U.S. ......
2009-05-02 00:05:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Manheim Township police are looking for a man who they say held up a Burger King restaurant Friday morning.Manheim Township police spokesman Sgt. Tom Rudzinski said a man entered the restaurant, 1408 Lititz Pike, at 6:13 a.m., walked around the counter, displayed a handgun to employees and......
2009-05-02 00:04:00
MADELYN PENNINO and BRIAN WALLACE
A dump truck loaded with dirt struck a utility pole in Manheim Borough on Friday, causing a power outage that lasted for several hours throughout the borough.Manheim Borough Police Officer Joe Stauffer said the driver of the dump truck hit a utility pole at the former Raymark industrial si......
2009-04-30 10:10:00
JANET KELLEY
Every year, city police recognize their fellow officers for outstanding efforts. Sometimes it's an ability to solve neighborhood issues or work with city youth, solving a string of crimes or catching a suspected killer. This year, Officer M. Anthony Weaver was named the Richard W. Slau......
2009-04-30 00:52:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Jurors will be selected this week to hear the case of a Willow Street man accused of killing his mother-in-law in 2007.Lancaster County residents will be questioned as potential jurors beginning this morning before County Judge Jeffery D. Wright. The selection process is expected to last t......
2009-04-30 00:51:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Apparently, Edward Byrne suffered from a guilty conscience.Eight hours after Byrne allegedly struck an Amish man with his vehicle in Ephrata and then drove off Wednesday, he showed up at the local police station.He had seen an online news report about the hit-and-run crash and wante......
2009-04-30 00:01:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A man tried to lure a teenage girl into his vehicle as she walked to school Wednesday in New Holland, police said.The girl refused the motorist's advances and he drove off, according to New Holland police.The 15-year-old girl was walking in the 500 block of East Main Street (Rou......
2009-04-29 13:38:00
JANET KELLEY
An elderly Ronks couple were awakened early today by a robber who police said broke into their home and threatened them with a weapon. The robber forced his way into the home in the 100 block of North Ronks Road about 2 a.m., East Lampeter Township police said.The couple were not inj......
2009-04-29 10:12:00
STAFF
Authorities in New Holland are on the lookout for a man who attempted to lure a 15-year-old girl into his car Tuesday. Police said a man was in his car in the 500 block of East Main Street when he asked the girl to get inside around 7:10 a.m. The 15-year-old, who was by herself, refused a......
2009-04-28 01:03:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 44-year-old Philadelphia man stabbed his girlfriend nine times Monday night in Lancaster city, then threatened to kill his daughter, investigators said.Jose Cartagena was at Lancaster city police station late Monday, charged in the stabbing that happened in a home in the 100 block of Cor......
2009-04-28 00:59:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Four passengers in a car that crashed into a patch of trees Sunday in East Earl Township remained hospitalized Monday, according to officials.Danielle Ebelhar, 20, of New Holland, was in critical condition, while Morgan Nuessle, 18, of New Holland, and Amy Boley, 21, of Blue Ball, were lis......
2009-04-28 00:53:00
MICHAEL YODER
A national civil-rights group has joined the uproar over an alleged racial incident at Franklin & Marshall College last week.William Yoshino, the Midwest director of Japanese American Citizens League, sent a letter Friday to Lancaster city police Chief Keith Sadler urging him to conduc......
2009-04-28 00:51:00
JENNIFER TODD
John Walker and his neighbors already were concerned.In the past month, the city's northwest has been shaken by two armed robberies and a spate of vehicle vandalism.But when a female jogger was attacked three weeks ago on the lawn of Walker's State Street home — an ass......
2009-04-27 10:34:00
JANET KELLEY
Alcohol and speed were factors in a traffic accident Sunday that left a young New Holland man dead and four passengers in his car seriously injured, police said. William McCardle, 20, was driving the car around 1 a.m. Sunday when he lost control and crashed into a tree in the 900 block of Gault......
2009-04-26 00:18:00
STAFF
A woman who attacked a city police officer Saturday was charged with one count of aggravated assault and committed to Lancaster County Prison, police said. Police accused Angela Erickson, 40, of assaulting Officer Steven Reich about 1:15 a.m. after she was stopped for public drunkenness in the ......
2009-04-25 00:43:00
PATRICK BURNS
Manheim Township police on Thursday arrested a Peach Bottom man who allegedly was observed with a gun in his vehicle at Lancaster Shopping Center on Lititz Pike.Officers arrested John L. Wallace Jr., 22, of the 1200 block of Blackbarren Road, as he attempted to leave the shopping center ab......
2009-04-25 00:41:00
PATRICK BURNS
Lancaster police are investigating a shooting that occurred in the city Thursday night.Police said an unidentified 28-year-old man told officers he had been shot in the leg near Manor and Pearl streets.The man was taken to Lancaster General Hospital and later released, police said F......
2009-04-24 10:51:00
JANET KELLEY
There's something about Ashley Smith's driving that keeps getting her in trouble with police. Being a redhead doesn't seem to help either. Last year, an elderly Washington Boro woman told police that while two men were robbing her of cash and cookies, she noticed that their get......
2009-04-24 13:59:00
STAFF
Lancaster City police are investigating the shooting of a city man who arrived at Lancaster Regional Medical Center around 12:05 a.m. today with a gunshot wound to the leg. The 28-year-old male told city police he had been shot in the area of Manor and Pearl streets, Sgt. Todd Umstead said......
2009-04-24 00:33:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Four masked men broke into a Lancaster city apartment early Thursday morning and assaulted three people in what police are calling a targeted attack.City police say they arrested two of the intruders, including one man who swung a steel baton at a pursuing officer. The other two suspects e......
2009-04-24 00:18:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
In a sign of unity in the wake of an act of violence, about 100 people gathered in the glow of dozens of luminaries Thursday night to hold a silent vigil at Franklin & Marshall College. The Unity Gathering of Light, held on F&M's Hartman Green and attended by students, staff and com......
2009-04-23 11:16:00
TOM MURSE
Lancaster City police said they are talking to several "persons of interest" in a weekend assault in which two Asian Franklin & Marshall College students say they were punched and called racial epithets. It remains unclear what sparked the incident, or whether the victims were tar......
2009-04-23 17:46:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Correction — Franklin & Marshall College Department of Public Safety officers have arrest powers in connection with college-affiliated properties. The article below, posted on LancasterOnline on Thursday, misstated their powers.......
2009-04-23 17:43:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Correction — Donnie Thornton, the former Warwick High School science teacher who resigned last week amid allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a student, was divorced. The article below, posted on LancasterOnline on April 17, con......
