2009-11-07 00:11:00
JANET KELLEY
The drug dealer was out of prison just a few years when he was arrested again on new charges.And the message from the Lancaster County judge to 32-year-old Kelvin Monsanto was very clear:One more arrest and he'll be spending the rest of his life in state prison.As it is, ......
2009-11-07 00:09:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Two Lancaster women are among four people facing prison sentences in connection with a Lebanon bank robbery.Latricia Samuels and Mayra Rodriguez, both of Lancaster, along with Ronald Samuels, 34, and David Dupree, 32, both of Camden, N.J., are guilty of the 2004 robbery of a M&T Bank i......
2009-11-07 00:08:00
JANET KELLEY
The young Columbia man was told Friday that at some point he will be able to walk out of prison and get on with his life.But his son "will never be able to walk away from this situation," a Lancaster County judge said.In fact, the child — who Brandon Scott Brooks admitted assa......
2009-11-06 21:45:00
JACK ROBERTS and ALEJANDRO RIOS
Now it's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the two guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene.• It's not even Thanksgiving and already we have something to be thankful for.D.C. & Co. have just announced that they'll be back with their annua......
2009-11-05 00:01:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A call about two men fighting led to the arrests of a suspected armed robber and a suspected drug dealer, city police said.The incident occurred Wednesday at 2:45 a.m. near West Orange and North Mulberry streets, police said.Raymond Michael Nickles, 31, of 745 Manor St., Apt. 2, dis......
2009-11-04 00:07:00
AD CRABLE
A West Hempfield Township mother and her 2-year-old son were plucked from a rooftop before police arrested her husband in a domestic dispute Tuesday morning, according to authorities.West Hempfield Township police arrested Richard T. Bitner, 34, of 4005 Parkside Court, and charged him with......
2009-11-03 00:06:00
JACK BRUBAKER
Lancaster County and former inmates of Lancaster County Prison have reached a $2.5 million agreement to settle a federal class-action lawsuit over blanket strip searches.Anyone strip-searched while held in prison on minor charges between Aug. 22, 2005, and July 28, 2009, is eligible for be......
2009-10-31 00:09:00
JANET KELLEY
Three years ago today, a veteran city policeman walked into the basement of a St. Joseph Street home.What he saw, city police Detective Chris DePatto told a Lancaster County judge on Friday, "was something I've never seen before — and that says a lot."Seven peopl......
2009-10-31 00:07:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police officers were attacked during a riot in the city Thursday night that resulted in the arrests of four people, police said.City police were dispatched at 11:14 to the 300 block of South Queen Street for a report of a large fight and stabbing in progress, police said.Upon arriva......
2009-10-30 00:08:00
JANET KELLEY
The lawyer for convicted killer Michael Roseboro has responded to a prosecutor's claims that comments posted by a juror on Facebook were "innocuous."The posts, defense attorney Allan Sodomsky contends in a new court filing, "show a juror inclined to convict, bored and an......
2009-10-30 00:07:00
JACK BRUBAKER
Lancaster County Prison has denied allegations in a lawsuit filed by a former inmate who claims he was beaten by prison guards as part of a "routine" beating of prisoners.The prison's attorney, Christine Munion, claims that the prison and individual defendants, including Ward......
2009-10-30 00:06:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The man sought in the Oct. 14 wounding of two teenagers has been nabbed.Hector Rafael Llopiz Jr., 19, was captured by police Thursday morning at the Super 8 Motel on Lincoln Highway East.Entering a second-floor room, police encountered a 21-year-old Lancaster County woman, who initi......
2009-10-30 00:02:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Ephrata police said they have caught five suspected thieves.Ricardo Valdespino Jr., 33, of Ephrata, and Jason R. Wanner, 32, of Bowmansville, were charged with committing thefts Oct. 16-18 at the Kmart store in Ephrata, police said.An Ephrata woman is being investigated in connectio......
2009-10-29 17:52:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police have arrested one of the two men they say robbed the Northwest Savings Bank at 922 Columbia Ave. Aug. 6.He is Wilson Albert Osorio Jr., 23, of the 200 block of East New Street, police said.Police tried to track down Osorio for several weeks and asked all law enforcement agenc......
2009-10-29 13:01:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two days after a city man's home was burglarized and his car stolen, he found the car in a store parking lot — with a man sleeping inside it.The resident, of the first block of South Ann Street, told police that someone had stolen a television, a 14-karat gold ring and a spare set of......
2009-10-29 00:04:00
JANET KELLEY
Convicted killer Orlando Baez has had enough of state prison, enough of the legal system.He wants to be put to death."Leave me alone, execute me and let me go in peace," Baez told a Lancaster County judge Wednesday.Baez was convicted and sentenced to death more than......
2009-10-29 00:03:00
JENNIFER TODD
A Lancaster man wanted for the alleged assault of his girlfriend Sunday has turned himself in to police.Shawn M. Jones, 20, of East Lemon Street, arrived at the Manheim Township police station about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to a news release.He was arraigned before District Ju......
2009-10-29 00:01:00
JEFF HAWKES
Keeping in mind how a budget reflects people's values, let's consider what Pennsylvania's better-late-than-never spending plan says about us.For one thing, it says we'd rather expand gambling than close corporate tax loopholes.For another, it says we'd rather ski......
2009-10-28 00:16:00
JANET KELLEY
A man arrested for a crime he did not commit was sentenced to county prison after he pleaded guilty to another robbery.Jose Antonio Santiago, 39, of Lancaster, was sentenced to 11˝ to 23 months in prison, plus three years consecutive probation, for robbery and conspiracy.Defe......
2009-10-28 00:01:00
Staff
A young man pleaded guilty in Lancaster County Court on Tuesday to a series of crimes, including stealing cookies from an elderly Washington Boro woman.Randall James Hecker Jr., 20, of Calvert Lane, admitted to his part in a two-week crime spree that police said began with the robbery of a......
2009-10-27 00:03:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A West Hempfield Township police officer sustained minor injuries as he attempted to arrest a burglary suspect who then fled the scene in her vehicle, leading to a chase, police said.Officer Karl Hartranft was injured Monday as he tried to arrest Charlene P. Yurgaitis, 28, of Mountville, w......
2009-10-27 00:02:00
JANET KELLEY
It wasn't unusual for his older brother to call him names or initiate a fight, the city man told police.So when Osvaldo Torres started yelling, punching and trying to cut him with a knife Aug. 23, Enrique Torres-Torres said, he wasn't surprised, but fought back."He was always trying......
2009-10-24 00:01:00
RYAN ROBINSON
State police have charged two men with a slew of burglaries and thefts at southern Lancaster County businesses and homes, police reported Friday.William Christopher Thomas, 28, who has a last-known address of Port Deposit, Md., faces charges of burglary, theft and conspiracy related to six......
2009-10-21 00:11:00
JANET KELLEY
It was an unusual reaction to a state prison sentence, the Lancaster County judge admitted Tuesday.After being sentenced to 5˝ to 15 years in prison for robbery, the young city man asked his lawyer to give the judge a message:"Thank you."Edward William Kempto......
2009-10-20 10:17:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster County man is accused of stabbing his brother — twice — during a dispute over $5, police said.Daimar Wesley II, 25, of 230 Stonemill Road, stabbed Donald Wesley, 28, of the 100 block of South Marshall Street, in the upper chest and lower abdomen, police said.......
2009-10-19 23:16:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster man initially charged with endangering the welfare of his 1-year-old son also has been charged with receiving stolen property, in addition to facing several gun and drug charges, police said.Anselmo J. Rivera, 25, of West Orange Street, argued with his girlfriend at a home in t......
2009-10-19 10:24:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Manheim Township police on Sunday arrested a Lancaster city man who allegedly pointed a handgun at a man and threatened to kill him.Jorge W. Rosado Jr., 20, of West Lemon Street, went to a residence in the first block of West Liberty Street in Manheim Township to talk with his girlfriend, ......
2009-10-17 00:01:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A hit-and-run driver with 10 convictions for driving while under suspension struck a pedestrian and three vehicles in the city Thursday night, police said.Luis Antonio Cruz, 54, of 511 S. Shippen St., was driving in the first block of Dauphin Street when he struck a pedestrian, Ciriaco Rey......
2009-10-15 21:22:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster man on Wednesday locked a 1-year-old child inside an East Petersburg home alone, with no way for the mother to get back into the home, police said.Anselmo J. Rivera, 25, of Orange Street, was arrested after the domestic incident in the 2700 block of Madison Court, Manheim Towns......
2009-10-13 00:16:00
JENNIFER TODD
A Gordonville man has been charged with attacking his girlfriend with a baseball bat as she slept Saturday morning in their home.State police said Calvin B. Lynch, 31, of 205B Maple St., also kept the woman confined to a bedroom for more than eight hours by threatening further abuse if she......
2009-10-09 10:37:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police arrested a 19-year-old city man this week after finding he was carrying a stolen semiautomatic handgun.Two detectives driving in the area saw Jarvis J. Jamison, of the 200 block of East Frederick Street, running through St. Mary's Cemetery at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday, city polic......
2009-10-09 07:06:00
JANET KELLEY
Most of the time, child predators are caught by cops posing as kids on the Internet.But this time, authorities said, the intended targets — two Lancaster County girls — were real.Luckily, investigators said both girls were smart enough to tell their mothers about the onl......
2009-10-08 00:02:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Several recent robberies and burglaries have been keeping police busy in the county:• An unknown male got away with cash in an 8 a.m. robbery Monday at Puff-N-Snuff, 941 E. Main St., Mount Joy, state police said.The suspect knocked on a rear door to get the att......
2009-10-03 00:06:00
JANET KELLEY
Ricky Miller Jr. told police he didn't want to shoot his wife's boyfriend in front of his children."But he had to," police said Miller told them, before the other man, Kenneth Geiger III, "could get him."Geiger, 26, of Hampton Township, Cumberland County,......
2009-10-02 00:03:00
JANET KELLEY
"You are nothing," the sexual assault victim told her assailant."Nothing," she repeated, glaring at Steven Silva as he stood for sentencing Wednesday in Lancaster County Court."May God spare your daughters from a vicious criminal like you," the young wo......
2009-10-01 00:03:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Jessica Lopez allegedly used her car as a weapon — twice — and then attacked three police officers who arrested her after the second incident.The 21-year-old city woman was in and out of prison over the past year, as she made bail and had it revoked.Early Monday morning,......
2009-09-30 00:04:00
JENNIFER TODD and RYAN ROBINSON
Police have charged an East Hempfield Township man with assaulting and robbing his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend Friday outside the victim's East Lampeter Township home.Richard E. Davenport Jr., 21, of 1820 Glenbrook Drive, was one of several individuals who allegedly attacked Derreck ......
2009-09-30 00:01:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police have charged a registered Megan's Law sex offender with stalking a Lancaster Township woman, police said Tuesday.Mozella Drakeford, 60, of 682 Union St., faces one count of stalking, city police said.In July, a Lancaster Township woman reported she was being stalked by an......
2009-09-29 00:04:00
JANET KELLEY
The young woman was sleeping on her friend's sofa in August when she awoke to see two men creeping through the East Orange Street apartment.She watched as the men crossed the room to the bed where Anthony C. Swaydis was sleeping.They grabbed him, she said, picked him up and thre......
2009-09-29 06:16:00
JANET KELLEY
A young city man who last year held up a convenience store at gunpoint with his friends was sentenced Monday to 4 to 8 years in state prison.Melvin Keith, 20, of Lancaster, pleaded guilty in July to robbery, conspiracy, burglary and theft.On Monday, Lancaster County Court President ......
2009-09-21 00:01:00
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 County Library, 125 N. Duke St....
2009-09-18 00:03:00
JANET KELLEY
A state prison sentence might not seem like much of a gift.But a Lancaster County judge presented it that way Thursday to two convicted drug dealers.To one, Judge David Ashworth suggested, prison could be a chance to get the serious rehabilitation she needs to shake her addiction to......
2009-09-16 00:03:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A Lancaster County man has been accused of stealing the identities of DUI offenders in Lancaster and York counties.Donald E. Stoner, 37, was charged Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice with conspiracy to commit identification fraud.Federal officials refused to divulge where St......
2009-09-16 00:01:00
JANET KELLEY
The bank robbery seemed to go as planned for Charles Everitt King.Nobody got hurt, and he escaped with the money — except that it was tainted red with dye.But King apparently didn't think through the part about spending the tainted money.He took it to area convenien......
2009-09-15 00:04:00
JENNIFER TODD
East Hempfield Township police have charged two Lancaster city residents with the assault of a pregnant beauty school student earlier this month.Todd James Cook, of 328 S. Ann St., and Iris Lynett Ortiz, of 215 Howard Ave., both 21, are facing felony aggravated assault charges for the brut......
2009-09-14 20:02:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Three people were arrested and charged in five recent thefts from vehicles in Manheim Township, police said.They are: Carlos Noel Agosto, 27, and Pedro Alexander Colon, 30, both of 728 St. Joseph St.; and Fernando Cruz-Doitteau, 27, of 1635 Judie Lane.In response to recent thefts fr......
2009-09-11 00:03:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A burglar tried to make a major withdrawal Wednesday in New Holland.Someone broke a window, stole cash and tried to remove an ATM machine with a power tool at the Shell gas station, 586 E. Main St., according to New Holland police.Detective Jonathan W. Heisse said the tool was some ......
2009-09-11 00:01:00
TOM MURSE
The self-described "Vandal Bandits" who allegedly broke into nearly three dozen businesses across northern Lancaster County were "thrill-seekers" who left a path of destruction in their wake, police said Thursday. ...
2009-09-10 09:33:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police have nabbed a Lancaster man suspected of robbing a woman at knifepoint in a Walmart parking lot Wednesday, police said.Robert G. Leonard III, 35, of Old Philadelphia Pike, grabbed a 58-year-old Lancaster woman from behind while she was getting into her vehicle at 5:51 p.m. at the Wa......
2009-09-10 00:11:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
They called themselves the Vandal Bandits. Now the northern Lancaster County gang's crime spree appears to be over.On Friday, state and local police arrested Alexander J. Mayer, 20, and David M. Wood, 22, both of Ephrata, and Thomas E. Malin, 23, of Ephrata and Lancaster....
2009-09-10 00:02:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Three Lancaster men are accused of beating, kidnapping, stabbing and robbing an Elizabethtown resident, Northwest Regional police said.And one of the three suspects is a former prison cellmate of the victim, police said.Eugene A. Greener, 18, Hector T. Morales, 20, and Robert V. Hol......
2009-09-06 00:19:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
Now there are three. José Pratts, one of four low-level drug dealers offered a chance to avoid jail time in a program initiated by city police, failed a drug test Thursday. He was immediately charged with his original offense and committed to county prison. Bail was set at $50,000....
2009-09-06 00:08:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS
In New Jersey, ex-offenders coming out of prison couldn't find jobs. So Dr. Tony Campolo's Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education started making jobs. The ministry began setting up small businesses and cottage industries that give newly released inmates the chanc......
2009-09-04 08:21:00
JANET KELLEY
An East Hempfield Township man was sentenced Thursday to 5 to 10 years in prison for raping a child.But before Paul Antwan Brooks, 23, was led from the Lancaster County courtroom, his mother had some final words for him."I want nothing to do with you for the rest of my life,&qu......
2009-09-01 00:04:00
JENNIFER TODD
City police have charged a second man with homicide in connection with the Aug. 11 shooting death of 28-year-old Anthony C. Swaydis in the 300 block of East Orange Street.Police said Jose Antonio Montanez, 24, of the 500 block of North Plum Street, was one of several individuals who entere......
2009-08-29 09:51:00
JACK BRUBAKER
Luis David Villafane's suicide in Lancaster County Prison last November was the result of his own conduct, not negligence on the part of prison officials, according to the county's answer to a federal lawsuit.Villafane's sister, Marva Baez, sued the county, prison warden Vincen......
2009-08-28 00:01:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A Manheim man who fled police earlier this month was picked up recently during a routine traffic stop in Lititz.Nathan Groff, 20, was taken into custody Aug. 20 after the car he was riding in was stopped on Route 501.Police checked his name and realized a warrant had been put out fo......
2009-08-27 10:28:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A man led Lancaster city police on a vehicle chase Wednesday night, driving the wrong way on one-way streets and running red lights and stop signs, police said, before crashing into a utility pole.He then tried to grab an officer's gun before being taken into custody, police said....
2009-08-26 08:27:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Eric L. Singley got another chance at his sentencing, but it wasn't just his second chance — more like his "15th or 16th."Singley, 32, a former Denver resident who has been in and out of prison most of his adult life, was sentenced Tuesday to 15 to 40 years in prison fo......
2009-08-25 00:03:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Two stabbings in less than 24 hours have left two Lancaster city men dead and the brother of one of the victims behind bars.Police Monday morning arrested Enrique A. Torres-Torres, 38, and charged him with criminal homicide for allegedly killing his brother, Osvaldo Torres, 44, Sunday nigh......
2009-08-23 22:32:00
Jennifer Todd
Police were able to nab a knife-wielding bandit within hours of a heist Saturday at a Rite-Aid store, thanks in part, they said, to the city's controversial surveillance cameras.Police said Alexis Mendoza, 27, of the 300 block of South Queen Street, entered the Rite-Aid at 825 E.......
2009-08-23 00:21:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
Diane Johnson locked eyes with the four accused drug dealers who sat nervously before her. "I am the mother of a drug dealer," she declared, her voice rising. "I am the mother of a DEAD drug dealer. I am the mother of a 29-YEAR-OLD DEAD drug dealer. "When the two police......
2009-08-23 00:19:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
Here's how Lancaster's new Violent Crime Reduction Initiative came about and how it works. It began with research. Late last year, Millersville University students led by sociology professor Mary Glazier began researching drug crimes in Lancaster. They pored over police reports. MU......
2009-08-23 00:15:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
Pete Anders believes city residents have had enough of drug dealing and the related violence plaguing some of their neighborhoods. That's why Anders, captain of the police detective division, is eager to implement a new Violent Crime Reduction Initiative that mobilizes an army of community ......
2009-08-14 08:19:00
JANET KELLEY
A former Hempfield High School substitute teacher has been charged with having a romantic relationship with one of his female students.Manor Township police charged Michael Palmer, 23, of Parkesburg, Thursday with one count of corruption of minors.The incident is the latest in what ......
2009-08-14 00:16:00
P.J. REILLY
Kareem Divon Gaines was known to carry guns, and police said he wasn't afraid to use them.Fortunately for Lancaster County sheriff's Deputy Joe Wilcox and city police Officer Mike Corso, Gaines, 31, of Philadelphia, dropped his stolen 9-mm handgun as he was pulling it out of his wa......
2009-08-14 00:01:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster city man is facing charges that he repeatedly assaulted his wife over a 26-hour period, including hitting her with a golf club and a baseball bat, police said.Jonathon Kirk Davis, 55, also threatened to kill his 28-year-old wife, and he prevented her from leaving their 66 S. Ma......
2009-08-13 00:12:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Shamek Hynson, with the assistance of his half-brother Prince Isaac, organized and led a violent drug-trafficking gang in Lancaster.Now, like Isaac, Hynson likely will spend the rest of his life in prison.On Monday, Hynson, 29, was sentenced to life plus 10 years in prison for his r......
2009-08-08 08:42:00
JANET KELLEY
"He was my best friend," Richard Prokay told a Lancaster County judge Friday.But early in the morning of Dec. 4, 2007, Prokay was driving his friends home when he missed a curve in the road and crashed into a stone wall.His best friend was killed instantly, the judge was t......
2009-08-08 00:08:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A city man is in jail, accused of a July shooting that left another man wounded.William M. Corporan-Correa, 26, of 250 W. King St., Apt. 409, was arrested Friday in connection with a July 19 shooting outside the Latin Mix nightclub at 245 W. King St.Corporan-Correa is accused of sho......
2009-08-08 00:06:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A Columbia man has been arrested in connection with a barn fire that killed more than 80 head of cattle last year.Derrick E. Getz, 18, of 4852 Marietta Ave., Columbia, was arrested Friday by Susquehanna Regional Police. He was charged with ecoterrorism, two counts of arson, causing or risk......
2009-08-08 00:03:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A man fleeing from Lancaster County Drug Task Force detectives struck two of them with his vehicle Thursday in East Hempfield Township, District Attorney Craig Stedman said in a press release.Drug Task Force Detective John Ator said the two who were struck were not seriously hurt in the 6 ......
2009-08-06 07:06:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The man suspected of robbing two Manheim Township banks last month is in custody.Jose Roberto Cucurullo-Taveras, 24, address unknown, was arrested early Wednesday at a residence in the 800 block of Bingaman Street in Reading. He was taken into custody without incident by Manheim Township a......
2009-08-05 00:03:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
York prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a 19-year-old man accused of shooting a 9-year-old Lancaster girl in the back, killing her.Chuck Patterson, chief deputy prosecutor for the York County District Attorney's Office, filed notice Tuesday that he will seek the ultimate p......
2009-08-04 00:11:00
JENNIFER TODD
A Marietta man, in jail on charges stemming from a bogus hoagie sale, has now been charged with a rash of recent burglaries and thefts in Marietta Borough.Susquehanna Regional Police said Charles I. Thran, 32, swiped more than $1,000 worth of items, including tools and a Nintendo Wii gamin......
2009-08-02 00:20:00
PAUL FRANZ
Michael Roseboro is on suicide watch at Lancaster County Prison. According to an online database provided by the prison, Roseboro is in the facility's "medical housing unit" for observation. Warden Vincent Guarini confirmed that Roseboro was moved to the unit Friday, but c......
2009-07-31 00:04:00
JANET KELLEY
Michael Roseboro closed his eyes, swallowed hard and dropped his head slightly.His mother, Ann, cradled in her husband's arms, broke into sobs in the back of the courtroom.Jurors, dry-eyed and grim-faced, glanced around at the people packed into the Lancaster County courtroom on......
2009-07-31 20:07:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Correction — In the story below, posted on Lancaster Online Friday, about a Lancaster Township shooting, one of the victims was identified in a police criminal complaint as Maurice Fokas. A relative of Fokas said the victim was Maurice Fokas......
2009-07-31 14:00:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Police arrested a man who they say burglarized three Lancaster city homes, all within several blocks of his own home.Nelson L. Agostini-Villa, 19, of the 700 block of High Street, is charged with stealing electronics, money, jewelry and other items.The homes are in the 300 block of ......
2009-07-30 00:09:00
STAFF REPORT
Constables went to a Manheim Township home to serve summary traffic warrants on July 16 and uncovered a marijuana-growing operation, police said.Daniel S. Hall, 30, of Meetinghouse Lane, was charged with manufacturing and possessing marijuana and possessing drug paraphernalia after police ......
2009-07-29 00:07:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police are investigating two burglaries and have made two arrests in a third.Someone broke into a home in the 100 block of Brickmill Road in Sadsbury Township between 2 and 6:30 p.m. Monday, according to state police.The burglar or burglars smashed a kitchen door with a hammer and o......
2009-07-28 00:16:00
STAFF REPORT
Two Harrisburg men are in jail after police say they attempted to sell stolen appliances to the store from which they were originally purchased.When an employee at the store ran the serial numbers of the washer and dryer, it was discovered that the units were purchased by Clyde Stumpf and ......
2009-07-25 00:17:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A Mexican drug cartel needed a place to serve as its East Coast hub: a place with a little airport, where a pilot ferrying cocaine could come and go without notice, a place that was close to its network of dealers in New Jersey and New York, a place where workers could quietly move into the subur......
2009-07-24 08:02:00
JENNIFER TODD
Susquehanna Regional police are encouraging residents in the Marietta area to be vigilant as they continue to investigate a rash of home burglaries spanning several months.Lt. Stephen Englert said two people were arrested for a series of burglaries and thefts earlier this year and another ......
2009-07-24 00:01:00
TOM MURSE
Ten thousand corrections officers patrol our prison cell blocks and stand between hardened criminals and the public in Pennsylvania — and those officers are getting only a fraction of their pay during the budget stalemate.The inmates?They're still getting paid in full.......
2009-07-23 00:24:00
JENNIFER TODD
A man leaning down behind an ATM customer last week in downtown Lancaster wasn't trying to get a closer look at the woman's bank card number, according to city police.Matthew James Talley, 32, of 24 Valleybrook Drive, allegedly was using a small mirror to look up the woman's sk......
2009-07-23 00:12:00
TOM MURSE
A former truck driver who caused a 2007 wreck that killed a mother and her daughter on Oregon Pike in Manheim Township expressed remorse in court Wednesday."I just wish it was me that got killed in an accident, not them," said Thomas A. Lamonda, 52, of New York, who was convicted......
2009-07-22 10:50:00
BERNARD HARRIS
A Lancaster County judge on Wednesday gave a city teen a second chance to turn his life around.Antonio "Tony" Bonilla, 18, had led a sad life, remarked Judge Joseph Madenspacher.In October, Bonilla and his brother, George, 16, knocked on the door of a home in the 600 block......
2009-07-21 08:01:00
BRIAN WALLACE
A Philadelphia man was sentenced Monday to 7 to 14 years in prison for participating in a robbery that a judge called "a homeowner's nightmare."Lancaster County President Judge Louis Farina imposed the sentence on Kyle L. Calamese, 27, for his role in a home-invasion robbery ......
2009-07-21 00:17:00
JANET KELLEY
As of three months ago, Michael Roseboro was still telling his girlfriend he loved her.And, Roseboro told Angela Funk in a phone call from jail, "I totally plan on being out of here in August."Monday, a Lancaster County jury listened to two recorded telephone calls Rosebor......
2009-07-21 00:11:00
TOM MURSE
A young mentally ill Columbia man who took a family hostage and claimed God had instructed him to kill someone apologized to his traumatized victims in court Monday."I am so sorry for what I did to you. I wish I could take away your fear. I don't want you to be afraid of me," 27-year-old N......
2009-07-21 00:08:00
RYAN ROBINSON
The Lancaster County Drug Task Force and the Strasburg Borough Police Department have charged seven people with a total of 20 felony counts, according to Strasburg police.Eric E. Wickett, 38, of 6 E. Main St., Apt. A, Strasburg; two 16-year-old Strasburg Borough boys; a 14-year-old borough......
2009-07-18 00:16:00
JACK BRUBAKER
A new prison ethics code for correctional officers is a good thing. But that code must be enforced strictly by the prison's supervisors. That's what a cross-section of Lancastrians told the Lancaster County Prison Board during a sometimes contentious 2 1/2 hour meeting Thursday morning....
2009-07-15 00:09:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Nicholas Poneros is a good man, an honorable man, a kind man who became a father figure to a niece, a giving man who gave toys to needy children at Christmas, an upstanding man who tirelessly served his church and his community, according to his friends and family.He's also a man who s......
2009-07-15 00:05:00
STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
A 27-year-old Fayette County woman was sentenced Monday to prison for a drunken-driving accident that killed a 27-year-old Denver man in 2007.Jennifer L. Madden was sentenced by a Fayette County judge to serve 1˝ years to 5 years in prison for aggravated assault while driving under ......
2009-07-15 00:01:00
STAFF REPORT
The Lancaster County Drug Task Force confiscated more than $12,000 worth of crack on Friday, according to a news release from District Attorney Craig Stedman's office.Shortly after 7 p.m., police arrested two men on drug charges in the parking lot of an East Lampeter Township shopping ......
2009-07-10 00:02:00
DAVID OCONNOR
The Elizabethtown woman saw the unauthorized charges on her credit card and called police.And now, 46-year-old Ralph Maldonado, owner of a business where the woman had once paid for vehicle maintenance, has been charged with unauthorized use of the woman's credit card.Police cha......
2009-07-09 00:04:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
An Adamstown man was sentenced Wednesday to 70 years in jail for taking sexually explicit photographs of four children.U.S. District Judge James Knoll Gardner sentenced Daniel Earl Eyster, 49, to 840 months in prison on one count of sexual exploitation of children and one count of possessi......
2009-07-07 00:31:00
JENNIFER TODD
Police have charged a convicted sex offender with the rape of a teenage girl who last month attended a party at his home.Richard Earl Peterson, 40, of 1494 Briertown Road in East Earl, invited several juveniles to his residence on June 13 and gave them alcohol, prescription narcotics and m......
2009-07-07 00:16:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two thefts allegedly involving the same group of people occurred within minutes of each other on Saturday, Manheim Township Police said.Three males and a female loaded a $379 air conditioner into a cart at Kmart, 1890 Fruitville Pike, at about 10:30 a.m. and left without paying for it, acc......
2009-07-07 00:09:00
JANET KELLEY
A former school secretary was sentenced to 1 to 2 years in prison Monday for stealing more than $163,000 in students' tuition money to support her family.Michelle Hildebrand, weeping before she was sentenced Monday morning, told Judge Joseph Madenspacher she is working now and making a......
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, ......
2009-07-02 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 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......
2009-07-01 00:07:00
JANET KELLEY
The young man, shot several times inside a Manheim Township bar, told the Lancaster County judge he thinks about the incident every day.And the shooter, Colby Richard Dixon, told Judge Dennis Reinaker he prays for his victim, Keith Pitt Jr., all the time."Nobody deserves what h......
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 ......
2009-06-30 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 00:12:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
Despite a few raindrops Sunday afternoon, a party was brewing at 2086 New Danville Pike.Residents, past and present, of House of Ruth, a home for women who had been incarcerated, gave the public tours of the organization's new home from 2 to 5 p.m."I've found that you c......
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......
2009-06-24 11:00:00
CHAD UMBLE
Lancaster County Commissioners will use federal stimulus money to create grant programs for energy efficient traffic lights and energy audits, among other things. The new projects will be paid for with the $3,795,900 that is the county's share of $3.2 billion in energy efficiency grants being g......
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 ......
2009-06-23 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......
2009-06-19 11:21:00
JACK BRUBAKER
Luis David Villafane killed himself in Lancaster County Prison last November as a result of "intentional, deliberate and reckless actions" by prison personnel, according to the complaint of a lawsuit filed in federal district court this week. But Prison Warden Vincent Guarini contests that alle......
2009-06-19 01:03:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Mount Joy teenager who was 16 when he allegedly played a role in the 2007 doorstep killing of Ray Diener will be tried as an adult.Emru Kebede's attorney on Thursday withdrew a petition that his client be tried in juvenile court, citing overwhelming evidence that prosecutors planned ......
2009-06-18 00:44:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
An East Petersburg man charged with transporting child pornography into the U.S. from overseas has been sentenced to prison.Patrick Joseph Bunty, 56, was sentenced Thursday to 46 months in prison for two counts of transporting child pornography and one charge of possession of child pornogr......
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.......
2009-06-12 11:21:00
JANET KELLEY
A man who robbed the bank across the street from his Neffsville home — twice — was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison today in Lancaster County Court. "I changed myself around in a lot of ways" after being arrested, Ivan J. Pabon-Martinez told Judge David Ashworth this morning, "......
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......
2009-06-10 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......
2009-06-08 00:01:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
Women who have spent time in prison, or have spouses who are or have been incarcerated, now have a new tool for healing their broken families.COBYS Family Services of Lancaster is hosting a special segment of their Family Nurturing class designed specifically for families affected by jail ......
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 01:03:00
MADELYN PENNINO
The state Attorney General's Office has arrested a Lancaster County man suspected of using the Internet to send explicit photos to children, according to a news release.Agents from the Attorney General's Child Predator Unit arrested Christopher L. Hassler, 24, of 103 N. 10th St., A......
2009-06-05 01:49:00
P.J. REILLY
Commissioners are not happy with the increases awarded by an arbitration panel.•••An arbitration panel has ended the contract impasse between Lancaster County officials and the union representing guards at the county prison.The 1......
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 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......
2009-05-30 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 11:35:00
JACK BRUBAKER
The Lancaster County Commissioners are not pleased that they first read details of inflammatory criminal and civil complaints against a former Lancaster County Prison guard in Thursday's newspaper. And they are unhappy that a small group of correctional officers are giving the majority of g......
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 00:44:00
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 11:04:00
JACK BRUBAKER
Lancaster County Prison has developed a new code of ethics for correctional officers, with hopes that it will help elevate performance. A number of inmates in recent years have charged that guards abused them, but officials emphasize that the new standards are not a direct response to specific ......
2009-05-22 11:06:00
JACK BRUBAKER
Prisoner Luis David Villafane's autopsy and photographs of his body show no evidence, as fellow inmates have claimed, that he was beaten prior to his death by hanging last November at Lancaster County Prison. The autopsy of Charles Carl Roberts, who committed suicide after shooting 10 Amish......
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 01:22:00
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 01:18:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 62-year-old with a criminal past was caught with crystal meth Wednesday when state parole officers stopped by his Earl Township home for a random search, authorities said.George William Howe, a longtime New Holland-area resident with convictions dating to the 1970s, was in Lancaster Coun......
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......
2009-05-19 10:15:00
JANET KELLEY
They wouldn't follow rules and didn't always get along with others. Some have emotional issues or social problems. Most came from bad or broken homes. But after a couple months behind the tall fences topped with rolls of razor wire surrounding the State Correctional Institutio......
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......
2009-05-15 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......
2009-05-14 11:25:00
TOM MURSE
You have to wonder what Kaboni Savage is thinking now. He is the father of Ciara Savage, the 9-year-old Ross Elementary School girl killed in the crossfire of a gang-related shooting Sunday in York. He is also the same man who, if you believe the ...
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 01:11:00
P.J. REILLY
Prisoners housed in Dauphin County's work-release center pay rent, pay for their food and medical treatment and take care of the facility.That saves Dauphin taxpayers big money, according to the county's Web site.Today, Lancaster County commissioners are expected to vote to ......
2009-05-13 01:04:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
In York a young man is in jail, charged with murder, while an anguished Lancaster family turns to the community for help as it prepares to bury a 9-year-old girl.The family of Ciara Savage has established a fund to help cover funeral expenses, family spokeswoman Melody Leon said.Leo......
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 00:41:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman pointed to the recent bust of an alleged major cocaine operation in Ephrata as a reason that community should support the county's Drug Task Force.Unlike most county municipalities, Ephrata borough and township give no money to support t......
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 00:34:00
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 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 11:01:00
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 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 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. ......
2009-05-01 10:54:00
JACK BRUBAKER
"It takes very little to make my day while living in my current conditions," Joy O'Shea Woomer writes from Lancaster County Prison. "Today, it was a cherry tomato in my salad, along with ranch dressing." So begins the latest entry in a blog called "...
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......
2009-04-25 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......
2009-04-24 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......
2009-04-22 00:48:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Denver man told a Lancaster County Judge Tuesday that his drug addiction led to a "nasty downward spiral" of robbery, theft and high-speed flights from police.Eric Lee Singley, 32, admitted to a multicounty crime spree in 2007 that included nine robberies, forgery offenses and ......
2009-04-22 00:40:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Without comment or discussion, the Warwick school board on Tuesday accepted the resignation of a faculty member accused of inappropriate behavior with a student.Donnie Thornton, a science teacher at Warwick High School, resigned effective April 13.Thornton, of 319 S. Cherry St., Mye......
2009-04-21 11:01:00
JACK BRUBAKER
The state has ruled that Lancaster County must supply autopsy records in two cases to the Lancaster New Era. In addition, the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records has admonished the county for not complying with the state's Right to Know law when it rejected the newspaper's request......
2009-04-21 09:02:00
JANET KELLEY
A man connected to an East Coast burglary ring was ordered to stand trial Monday for two Lancaster County break-ins. Scott Alan Hornick, 37, is already in a federal prison awaiting trial for his part in what prosecutors say was a six-year crime spree of committing burglaries in New Jersey......
2009-04-21 01:24:00
TIM STUHLDREHER
Ephrata police have arrested a fifth suspect in a home invasion and pistol-whipping that took place early Friday morning.Kyle Allensworth, 17, participated in the beating of a young man in a house in the 100 block of Church Avenue, Detective Graeme Quinn said Monday.Allensworth was ......
2009-04-21 01:23:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A former prison escapee charged in a six-year East Coast burglary spree was brought to Lancaster County Court on Monday, where he was ordered to stand trial on local charges.Scott Alan Hornick, 37, is in federal custody awaiting trial — or trials — for allegedly belonging to a ......
2009-04-21 01:18:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Police allege a Leola man broke into a Lancaster city apartment Sunday and tried to set the building on fire.Gary Almodovar, 20, of Brendon Drive, broke into the West King Street apartment, set the blaze, then fled down a fire escape, according to court documents.No one was inside t......
2009-04-20 11:43:00
JACK BRUBAKER
In the spring of 2005, Gary Heinke, Lancaster County's human services administrator, fired the director and three top-level administrators of the county's Youth Intervention Center. That action prompted two reactions. • The county commissioners elevated Scott Martin, then......
2009-04-20 10:30:00
CARLA DI FONZO
A man observed by security guards breaking into vending machines at Willow Valley Resort & Conference Center was apprehended Sunday, police said. Authorities in West Lampeter Township said they were dispatched to the conference center at 2416 Willow Street Pike just after 2 a.m. A call......
2009-04-20 09:43:00
CHAD UMBLE
No matter how you look at it, building a new prison is going to be monstrously expensive. But from the vantage point of 30 years down the road, the lower operating costs for one big prison make the tab for constructing it seem a little less scary. Last week, county prison officials compare......
2009-04-20 09:41:00
JACK BRUBAKER and CHAD UMBLE
Inmates released directly to the disciplinary block from Lancaster County Prison's mental health unit should be monitored more closely by correctional officers. That is a chief finding of a task force assigned to examine the hanging of inmate Luis David Villafane on Nov. 19, 2008. The group mad......
2009-04-18 01:28:00
MADELYN PENNINO
State police said they seized thousands of dollars worth of allegedly counterfeit purses and clothing Friday at Green Dragon Market in a raid that capped a major undercover investigation.More than 5,000 pieces of merchandise were confiscated from nine stands that claimed to sell name-brand......
2009-04-17 01:38:00
JEFF HAWKES
Fourteen times Shawn Reilly walked out of Lancaster County Prison thinking it would be the last time.Fourteen times he was wrong.On March 30, after serving six months for public intoxication, Reilly, 43, walked out a 15th time.And this time, Reilly vows, it's going to be ......
2009-04-17 01:18:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Lancaster police have arrested three city men who allegedly tried to rob several people at gunpoint early Thursday morning.Charged are Carmelo Rivera Jr., 19, of the first block of North Mary Street; Jose Miguel Leon Jr., 20, of the 600 block of West Chestnut Street; and Jeron Antonio Cope......
2009-04-17 00:58:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 29-year-old Paradise man was sentenced Thursday to at least 20 years in state prison for a series of bizarre break-ins in the county's southern end.Christopher Welk entered two occupied homes and tried to burglarize other homes between 2005 and 2007, according to investigators....
2009-04-15 11:25:00
JACK BRUBAKER
A mental health court in Allegheny County has reduced the length of time participants spend in the county prison. A courtroom inside the Dauphin County Prison has expedited guilty pleas. Sentencing technical parole violators to house arrest with electronic monitoring has saved space and do......
2009-04-15 01:19:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Columbia Borough is threatening to crack down on a former state representative operating a residence for convicted sex offenders.Tom Armstrong's group home for offenders already has been chased out of Marietta Borough and Conestoga Township.Now he's relocated his "progr......
2009-04-15 01:12:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
New charges have been filed against six young males in connection with a feud that resulted in multiple fights and a barrage of threats at Garden Spot High School, officials said.Investigators say two groups are responsible for the series of fights, which occurred at a youth center and a p......
2009-04-15 01:03:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
An unlicensed driver from York led police on a wild car chase Monday, almost striking an officer on foot and causing damage to a tractor-trailer and a police cruiser, police said.Ultimately, the "Dukes of Hazzard"-style pursuit in western Lancaster County ended with the arrest of......
2009-04-10 10:35:00
CHAD UMBLE
In January, a consultant told county prison officials it would cost $169 million to build a new prison. Next week, the same consultant will discuss the financial wisdom of abandoning the current prison entirely if a new prison is built. Yet officials say that when it comes to dealing with ......
2009-04-10 01:12:00
JENNIFER TODD
Marjorie Martinez remembers that day eight years ago — looking down at the latex gloves, the white sheet and the blood on the side of the road.As she stared in disbelief at the spot where her son was killed by a drunk driver as he walked along the highway days before, her daughter po......
2009-04-07 01:24:00
TIM STUHLDREHER
Three men got into an altercation that left one of them with a sizable knife wound in his chest Friday night, city police said.Police said all three were drunk and disorderly when officers responded to a disturbance at James Kendig's residence in the first block of Pearl Street about 1......
2009-04-04 01:34:00
PATRICK BURNS
Police said they arrested a married couple from Stevens on Friday after a domestic dispute ended with the pair suffering stab wounds.Steven Matlack, 29, and Christina Vasquez, 26, both of 25 S. Line Road, were treated at Ephrata Community Hospital and released after the incident, which occ......
2009-04-04 01:21:00
PATRICK BURNS
A former Millersville University student accused of threatening a faculty member with a knife in January was jailed again Wednesday after police say he stalked the professor.Randall S. Walsh, who was released on bail after the January incident, returned to the Millersville campus on Tuesda......
2009-04-02 01:38:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A man fired at least seven shots Tuesday night while fighting with a man inside a home filled with people, including five children, according to police.Incredibly, no one was struck by any of the bullets, which were fired in close proximity to many of the occupants, investigators said.......
2009-04-01 11:10:00
RYAN ROBINSON
In February, Clark Lilley was imprisoned for five weeks for a crime he did not commit. But things are looking up for the freed Christiana man. The 28-year-old student has returned to classes at Lancaster Bible College. The school gave Lilley his part-time job back and is helping him pay fo......
2009-04-01 01:08:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Gap man accused of setting several local fires has been charged with 43 additional offenses for an alleged spree of violence and vandalism.Nicholas Brown Jr., 25, threw bricks and rocks from highway overpasses at moving cars, stole, slashed car tires and smashed windows during a four-mon......
2009-04-01 00:55:00
STAFF REPORT
A Chester County man was in custody Tuesday after attempting to flee police and causing an accident outside of Quarryville, state police said.When a trooper attempted to pull over Edward M. Hicks, 21, of Oxford, for an alleged traffic violation, Hicks fled north on Route 472 in his C......
2009-04-01 00:27:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
According to testimony, Tyler Johns, who is accused of killing Kenyon Wright-Carter, had been beaten up and shot at by Wright-Carter before the pair's last encounter on Jan. 24 on Green Street.•••A 16-year-old stabbed Kenyon Wright-......
2009-03-27 10:51:00
JANET KELLEY
An 18-year-old man was found unconscious with head injuries lying in a New Holland park on Wednesday night, police said. The teenager, identified as Mystherson Maxy, of York, was admitted to Lancaster General Hospital in serious condition, according to a hospital spokesman. The assault was......
2009-03-27 01:27:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Police said Thursday they charged three teenagers with assault for allegedly beating up a 15-year-old boy at a church-sponsored youth center in New Holland.Nelson Griffey, 18, and two 17-year-old boys are accused of beating the boy Thursday at The Cross Connection, 127 W. Franklin St....
2009-03-27 01:23:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Two New York women have been charged with dozens of felonies for an alleged credit card scam in Lancaster County.Manheim Township police arrested Christianie Deravice, 33, and Danielle Parchment, 24, after they fled a shopping center and led officers on a car chase.Investigators all......
2009-03-26 11:16:00
JACK BRUBAKER
A Lancaster County Prison inmate walking through his cell block was first to alert correctional officers that Luis David Villafane was hanging himself with a bed sheet in his cell at Lancaster County Prison last November. But nearly three minutes passed between the time the inmate first walked ......
2009-03-26 10:05:00
CHAD UMBLE
Lancaster County Prison received a 100 percent compliance rating after a recent state inspection, certifying that the county prison fully complies with state standards for local adult detention facilities. In February, three inspectors from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections' Office of ......
2009-03-25 00:04:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A serial shoplifter accused of trying to swipe bottles of baby formula from a city store Tuesday apparently decided not to go down without a fight.With a coat packed full of the expensive formula, David Vasquez fought employees and a customer before he was subdued on the floor of Rite-Aid ......
2009-03-24 01:16:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A life of crime finally caught up with a 25-year-old man who played a role in the 2007 shooting of 7-year-old Brianna Pratt.Although Angel "Fly" Serrano was acquitted last year of firing the shot that struck Brianna in Lancaster city, he was convicted of conspiracy. For that, Ser......
