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 ......
2009-06-23 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 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 00:28:00
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......
2009-06-14 00:20:00
STAFF
City police tried to stop a 17-year-old juvenile male for a curfew violation in the first block of East Filbert Street at 1:44 a.m. Saturday when the youth fled, discarding a .45-caliber handgun. Police said the youth had cocaine in his possession; he also had an outstanding juvenile detainer. ......
2009-06-14 00:15:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
A Lancaster man was in Lancaster County Prison on Saturday after city police charged him with robbing two banks. Police said Richard Delbert Parrish Jr., 31, of the 600 block of High Street, and formerly of West Palm Beach, Fla., was arrested just after 11:30 a.m. at his home on an unrelated wa......
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 01:21:00
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......
2009-06-11 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......
2009-06-09 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 13:56:00
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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......
2009-06-02 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......
2009-05-30 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......
2009-05-28 10:23:00
JANET KELLEY
A masked man held a knife to the throat of a female convenience store clerk Wednesday night, as he helped himself to a handful of cash from the Brickerville store. The clerk, a 28-year-old Lititz woman, was unhurt, state police said. Troopers said a man entered the Turkey Hill Minit Market......
2009-05-28 14:21:00
STAFF
A young man tried to rob the Wachovia Bank in downtown Lancaster early this afternoon, according to city police. It was not immediately known whether the suspect, described as a thin white or Hispanic male, got any cash from the 100 N. Queen St. branch, said Sgt. Todd Umstead. The suspect,......
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......
2009-05-26 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......
2009-05-22 10:19:00
JANET KELLEY
It didn't take long for Manor Township Police to identify the robbery suspect. Now all they have to do is find him. Around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, police said, a gunman robbed the clerk at the CVS store, 2020 Columbia Ave., escaping with an undisclosed amount of cash. There were no inj......
2009-05-21 12:08:00
CARLA DI FONZO
A robbery suspect who allegedly struck a man in the face with a handgun was nabbed after city police spotted him getting into a car with no registration plate, investigators said. Pedro Luis Rodriguez, 21, of Lancaster, was charged with robbery following the incident Tuesday night in the 500 bl......
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 ......
2009-05-19 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 09:52:00
CARLA DI FONZO
A Columbia woman was robbed by two men carrying guns and a female accomplice she knew by name, police in Manheim Township said today. The victim told police that on Friday, around 7:30 p.m., she was driving near the intersection of Juliette and Frances avenues when she stopped at a stop sign....
2009-05-15 10:44:00
CARLA DI FONZO
A would-be robber hoping to score some cash threatened a cab driver with a knife, police said, but ran away from the scene empty handed. An employee of Yellow Cab Taxi told police that a man entered his cab around 10 p.m. Thursday at 437 E. Mifflin St. and threatened him with a knife. The ......
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......
2009-05-07 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......
2009-05-06 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......
2009-05-02 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......
2009-04-30 11:11:00
JANET KELLEY and CARLA DI FONZO
An elderly Ronks couple were robbed early Wednesday morning by a man who police said broke into their home and threatened them with a weapon. The robber forced open a locked door to the home, along a rural area in the 100 block of North Ronks Road, around 2 a.m., police said. The couple,......
2009-04-29 10:49:00
STAFF
Police in East Lampeter Township said they're looking for a man who robbed a Turkey Hill in Bridgeport early today. Investigators said the robber entered the store at 612 Lincoln Highway East shortly after 4 a.m. The robber was described as a black male in his 20s or 30s, wearing......
2009-04-28 10:24:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Something seemed a bit too familiar about the masked robber. A knife-wielding man who allegedly tried to steal his ex-girlfriend's purse Monday night made sure to conceal his face during the incident –— but police said he should have skipped the cologne....
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......
2009-04-26 00:14:00
STAFF
Two Lancaster restaurants were robbed Friday night and Saturday morning. Sgt. Carolyn Gundel, Manor Township police, said that two men robbed Papa John's pizza restaurant, 1800 Columbia Ave., just before 11 p.m. Friday. Gundel said the men reportedly had guns, but did not threaten the clerk wit......
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......
2009-04-22 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 ......
2009-04-21 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 01:14:00
STAFF REPORT
A gas station clerk in Ephrata was robbed at gunpoint early Saturday, police said.A man in a dark hooded sweatshirt threatened the clerk with a handgun and demanded cash about 3:30 a.m. at the Sunoco, 529 W. Main St., according to a police news release.The suspect obtained "an ......
2009-04-19 00:18:00
STAFF
Mast Stoltzfus, 100, of Atglen, Chester County, was charged after a two-vehicle crash at Strasburg Road and Route 41, Salisbury Township, at 6:45 p.m. Thursday, state police at Lancaster said. Mast, who was westbound on Strasburg Road, turned left onto Route 41 without stopping at a stop sign,......
2009-04-18 19:31:00
STAFF
A man held up a clerk at gunpoint at the Sunoco Minit Market in the 500 block of West Main Street in Ephrata early Saturday, Ephrata police said. The man is described as a tall, white male in his 20s with a goatee. He was wearing a dark, hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and dark sneakers. He ......
2009-04-17 09:47:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Two juveniles suspected of robbing a pizza man late Thursday made it easy for authorities to spot them, city police said, since one of the suspects was walking the streets carrying the victim's delivery case. Police said Officer Mark Gehron responded to a report of the robbery just after 11......
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 01:07:00
STAFF REPORT
Police are looking for two suspects who allegedly robbed a gas station in Sadsbury Township last month and who are believed to have committed five other armed robberies in Chester County, according to news reports.On Thursday, according to the Daily Local News newspaper in Chester County, ......
2009-04-16 10:59:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Three men suspected of pulling three gunpoint robberies earlier today were nabbed by officers who recognized their getaway car, police said. "Officers had a description of a red, older model car from the victims and went out looking for it," said Lt. Brent Oberholtzer. "Pol......
2009-04-10 09:54:00
JANET KELLEY
A young woman was punched in the face during an attempted robbery on State Street early Thursday night, according to city police. Police said the woman was jogging in the 600 block of State Street shortly before 9 when a car stopped beside her and another woman got out, punched her several time......
2009-04-09 01:00:00
MICHAEL YODER
An early morning armed robbery at a Mount Joy convenience store attracted police from departments across northwestern Lancaster County, leading to arrests hours later.Hector Jesus Adorno-Burgos, 30, of West Strawberry Street, Lancaster, and Michael Velazquez-Rivera, 29, no known address, w......
2009-04-08 11:01:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Police in Mount Joy Borough nabbed two men who allegedly brandished guns and robbed a Turkey Hill early today. Investigators said the two suspects walked into the Turkey Hill store at 325 W. Main St. just after 2:30. One of the suspects entered the back room of the store and pulled a gun ......
2009-04-07 01:39:00
TIM STUHLDREHER
Two Franklin & Marshall College students were robbed at gunpoint Friday night near the campus, city police and college officials said.A man in his 20s brandished a gun and took money from one of the two students during the holdup, which occurred about 11 p.m. in the 800 block of Race A......
2009-04-06 00:40:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Police have charged a Lancaster city man with a pair of convenience store robberies, including one heist that led to the imprisonment of an innocent man for five weeks.Jason T. Karlow, 32, is accused of committing knife-point robberies at Turkey Hill markets in Mountville Borough and Manor......
2009-04-04 01:08:00
PATRICK BURNS
An 83-year-old Lancaster woman's stolen purse was returned Friday thanks to the efforts of several law-enforcement agencies.Jason B. Sloan, 35, and Daryl Rodney Carter, 32, both of the 500 block of High Street, were charged with robbery and criminal conspiracy in connection with the pu......
2009-04-03 01:03:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Police are searching for a man and woman who broke into an East Donegal Township home early Thursday and stole money from the 93-year-old woman inside.Susquehanna Regional police said the home-invasion robbery happened about 2:15 a.m. in the rural 1400 block of Long Lane.The elderly......
2009-04-02 10:37:00
CARLA DI FONZO
The victim of a street robbery decided to chase the man who snatched her purse, police said. Just after 8:37 a.m. today, a man approached a woman at the intersection of Charlotte and Marion streets and grabbed her handbag. When he ran off, police said, the victim took off after him but cou......
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 11:00:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Have you seen the man in the beanie and heavy coat? Lancaster City Police officers are looking for him as a "person of interest" in relation to a purse snatching and robbery that happened last week. A 56-year-old Lititz woman was knocked down and had her purse stolen at 8:19 a.m.......
2009-04-01 00:21:00
MICHAEL YODER
Columbia police are looking for a man who allegedly attempted to rob a Burger King employee at knifepoint early Tuesday morning as she was depositing money at a bank.According to police, the female employee was making a night deposit after midnight Tuesday when a white male wearing a banda......
2009-03-31 11:01:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Two separate burglary and robbery attempts this weekend ended in failure, investigators said, with the suspects running off empty handed from their targets in Lancaster County. Around 2 a.m. Friday, a West Hempfield Township resident phoned police after he discovered two strangers inside his ho......
2009-03-30 11:01:00
CARLA DI FONZO
A 19-year-old pizza delivery man fought back after being robbed by two men Sunday night, police said. The incident was one of two robberies of pizza delivery men here over the weekend, and police said there are similarities between the suspects. On Sunday night, a delivery man for Papa Joh......
2009-03-27 11:13:00
JANET KELLEY
Antwan Ressel said he was sorry this morning and asked the judge for a "reasonable" punishment for his crime spree, that included robbing an elderly woman. Lancaster County Judge Joseph Madenspacher responded with what he apparently considered to be reasonable: sentencing Ressel to 18......
2009-03-27 10:23:00
CARLA DI FONZO
A man on his way to work early today suddenly found himself looking down the barrel of a robber's gun. Police said the victim was walking near the intersection of Ruby and First streets around 5 a.m. when two men approached him. City police Sgt. Todd Umstead said one of the men display......
2009-03-26 10:09:00
CARLA DI FONZO
A delivery man for a Chinese restaurant was robbed and assaulted, police said, by three men who stole the food order as well as money. Investigators said the man was robbed Wednesday night in the 500 block of Locust Street. The Good Taste Chinese restaurant employee was approached by three......
2009-03-24 01:17:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Police have arrested two teenagers and a 22-year-old man for allegedly committing two armed robberies in Lancaster city Friday night.Police allege the trio toted guns during robberies on Euclid Avenue and at Ruby Street and Ocean Avenue.They stole cash and a pack of cigarettes from ......
2009-03-24 01:06:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 28-year-old drug addict was sentenced recently to at least 15 years in state prison for a string of gunpoint robberies and other thefts.In 2007, Brian Michael Knox, formerly of Ephrata, robbed for money to support heroin and alcohol addictions, prosecutors said.Knox pleaded guilty......
2009-03-23 11:12:00
RYAN ROBINSON
At lunch on Feb. 12, Clark Lilley studied for an Old Testament history quiz coming up in his next class. But as the 28-year-old pastoral ministry student walked out of Lancaster Bible College's dining commons, a school employee approached Lilley and said the president of student services......
2009-03-20 11:12:00
JANET KELLEY
First, he robbed and assaulted the woman, stealing her cell phone. Later, she called him on her phone, hoping to get her phone back. And he demanded a ransom, suggesting a price of $185,000. Randy-Jay Jones had never really been in trouble before, his attorney told a Lancaster C......
2009-03-20 10:02:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Lancaster City police are investigating two separate robberies involving purse snatchers that occurred on Walnut Street. Investigators said an 82-year-old city woman was in the intersection of Cherry and East Walnut streets when two men approached her Thursday around 6:30 p.m. Investigator......
2009-03-20 00:55:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Clark Lilley looked like the armed man who robbed a Manor Township convenience store last month, but he and his attorney insisted police had the wrong guy when he was arrested and charged."He looked very much like him," defense attorney Jeff Conrad said of the surveillance video taken of t......
2009-03-19 10:45:00
CARLA DI FONZO
A man who robbed a Turkey Hill in Mountville on Wednesday night used a knife to threaten a store employee, police said, before making his getaway in a car. The clerk on duty at the convenience store at 320 E. Main St. told police that a man entered the store around 10 p.m. and picked up a snack......
2009-03-17 00:04:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 55-year-old Lancaster man was pistol-whipped as he was robbed Monday outside a Lancaster city store.Two light-skinned Hispanic males approached the man as he got into his car outside Save-A-Lot on South Queen Street, police said.One of the men had a gun and struck the victim in th......
2009-03-16 14:06:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Police are still searching for two men who allegedly robbed a man at gunpoint in a city parking lot Monday afternoon before using the weapon to assault him. Investigators said the victim, a 55-year-old Lancaster City man, was getting into his car at the Save-A-Lot parking lot at 222 S. Queen St......
2009-03-12 01:29:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Convicted killer Abraham Sanchez Jr. should pay for the 2007 murder of Ray Diener with his own life, a Lancaster County jury decided Wednesday night.Two days after convicting Sanchez of first-degree murder for shooting Diener to death on the doorstep of his West Donegal Township home, the ......
2009-03-11 10:13:00
JANET KELLEY
A Brownstown man was convicted Tuesday of kidnapping a woman in the Poconos, forcing her to withdraw money from her bank and drive him back to Lancaster County. Jason Richard LaBar, 27, was convicted by a Monroe County jury of numerous offenses, including kidnapping, robbery and terroristic thr......
2009-03-11 01:16:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A convicted killer wept Tuesday as family and friends described how he was abused at home and picked on at school while growing up in Lancaster city.Abraham Sanchez Jr., 20, is facing the death penalty after a Lancaster County jury convicted him Monday of first-degree murder for shooting R......
2009-03-10 11:46:00
JANET KELLEY
A Lancaster jury will have much to consider before it decides whether Abraham Sanchez should die or spend the rest of his life in prison. Jurors must consider whether the 20-year-old Elizabethtown man is mentally retarded, a judge explained this morning. And they must consider Sanchez&#......
2009-03-10 10:34:00
STAFF
Three men attempted a robbery at a small grocery store in Lancaster this morning before fleeing on foot. Police said a security alarm sounded at J&S Groceries on 544 Woodward Street at about 9:20 a.m. According to eyewitness accounts, one of the men drew a gun during the incident......
2009-03-10 01:44:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster County jury convicted an Elizabethtown man Monday of first-degree murder for what prosecutors called the "cold-blooded" killing of 65-year-old Ray Diener.Argument over whether Abraham Sanchez Jr. will be put to death or spend the rest of his life in prison will begin ......
2009-03-09 09:30:00
CARLA DI FONZO
A pizza man who had just finished a delivery late Sunday night suddenly found himself face to face with an armed robber, city police said. The delivery man told investigators that the incident took place just after 11 p.m. in the 100 block of South Prince Street. The armed man threatened t......
2009-03-07 01:04:00
PATRICK BURNS
Three more suspects were arrested this week in connection with the Feb. 21 home-invasion robbery of a Kinzers man.State police were searching for four other suspects after the arrest Feb. 25 of Darian Ann Nicastro, 16, of Atglen.Police said Nicastro admitted she helped set up the vi......
2009-03-07 01:01:00
P.J. REILLY
The fate of Abraham Sanchez Jr. is expected to be placed in the hands of a Lancaster County jury on Monday.And that panel will take the case without hearing any defense testimony from Sanchez or anyone else.Sanchez's attorney, Robert Kirwan II, rested his case Friday without cal......
2009-03-07 00:38:00
MADELYN PENNINO
An armed robber who fired shots during a holdup of a bank in Caernarvon Township on Friday is still on the loose, according to state police.A man wearing a mask entered Susquehanna Bank, 2822 Main St., Morgantown, shortly before 10 a.m. and threatened customers and employees with a semiaut......
2009-03-06 14:11:00
STAFF
A masked gunman robbed the Susquehanna Bank at 2822 Main St., Morgantown just before 10 a.m. today The suspect, who was armed, was described as a white male, about 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-11, with a thin build, approximately 160 pounds, according to police and county emergency dispatche......
2009-03-06 00:48:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Abraham Sanchez Jr. warned his three alleged accomplices not to talk about the killing of Ray Diener, but it was Sanchez himself who could not keep a secret, according to a witness at his trial.One of Sanchez's co-workers at a fast-food restaurant said Thursday that Sanchez described i......
2009-03-06 00:36:00
TIM STUHLDREHER
Shortly after police made a new arrest in a vicious beating and torture case, four suspects pleaded guilty to the charges against them, police said.David Allen Toaltoan, 30, of the 600 block of Manor Street in Lancaster city, was taken into custody Wednesday morning at Lancaster County Cou......
2009-03-05 01:21:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
The four men had "plenty" of chances to walk away from Ray Diener's home without anyone getting hurt, but instead went ahead with an ill-conceived robbery that ended with Diener's slaying.No one second-guessed the plan, however, and the accused triggerman, Abraham Sanchez......
2009-03-03 01:15:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Barb Diener is a heavy sleeper, but on the night of May 2, 2007, she was awakened by a sound like none she had ever heard.It was her husband's cry for help as he was being shot to death on the couple's front porch, according to testimony Monday in Lancaster County Court.&quo......
2009-03-02 10:23:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Investigators are on the lookout for two masked robbers who held a convenience store clerk at gunpoint and demanded cash. Authorities said the two unknown suspects entered the Quick Stop convenience store at 2952 East Lincoln Highway last Monday. According to a state police report, the&nb......
2009-02-28 01:01:00
PATRICK BURNS
Police say four teens and a 20-year-old conspired to rob a man at gunpoint Feb. 21 in his Kinzers apartment.State police charged a 16-year-old female from Atglen with helping to set up the man, who lives in the 3500 block of Lincoln Highway East.According to a criminal complaint fil......
2009-02-26 12:31:00
JANET KELLEY
A man was robbed and knocked to the ground shortly before noon today in the 100 block of East Marion Street, police said. Around 11:43 a.m., police said, a man was walking on East Marion Street, a narrow street that runs between North Lime and North Cherry streets, when he was approached by two......
2009-02-23 00:06:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
The 20-year-old man accused of shooting Ray Diener to death on his West Donegal Township doorstep in 2007 goes to trial this week.Abraham Sanchez Jr. could face the death penalty for allegedly killing Diener, 65, during a robbery at 1016 West Ridge Road, just south of Elizabethtown.......
2009-02-22 00:20:00
STAFF
Ralph C. Trego, 27, of the 100 block of Bridle Path, New Holland, was arrested early Friday at Hollander and Peters roads, Earl Township, and charged with DUI, resisting arrest, possession of a small amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, New Holland police said. Trego was fo......
2009-02-18 10:55:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Police quickly arrested a suspect who allegedly robbed a Lancaster City resident Tuesday night before fleeing in a minivan. Investigators said David Cedeno, 19, of Lancaster, was apprehended shortly after he and two unidentified accomplices allegedly took the keys to a truck belonging to a 41-y......
2009-02-17 00:58:00
PATRICK BURNS
A judge on Friday moved charges forward against a Lancaster man accused of shooting two people in the city last summer.Charles Robert Lewis Jr., 25, formerly of 309 Coral St., faced a preliminary hearing Friday on charges that he shot a man and a woman on June 16 near West King and North P......
2009-02-16 00:30:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 46-year-old woman has been charged with a daytime street robbery in East Petersburg that netted $20.Police say Margaret L. Wallace used force to take the cash from a 26-year-old Manheim Township woman about 3 p.m. Friday.Investigators believe the victim was trying to help Wallace.......
2009-02-10 12:06:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Two people with guns punched and kicked two clerks, and then robbed a convenience store on Route 30 in Salisbury Township late Monday night. The two assailants were among four people who entered the Hess Express store in the 5300 block of Lincoln Highway East, not far from Gap, at about 11:30 p......
2009-02-09 12:07:00
CARLA DI FONZO and JANET KELLEY
A city man was charged this morning with burglarizing more than a dozen churches in Lancaster City and surrounding suburbs. In addition, Michael Scott Wissler, 38, of South Franklin Street, was charged by police in five jurisdictions with burglarizing more than a dozen businesses since October.......
2009-02-05 09:50:00
CARLA DI FONZO
City police are seeking three robbers who mugged a city man late Wednesday evening. Police say the victim, a 28-year-old Lancaster resident, was walking in the 500 block of West Orange Street when he was approached by three men who forced him to hand over his cellular phone and an undis......
2009-02-02 11:43:00
JANET KELLEY
Parole officers wondered why Thuan Tang had missed his appointment last Tuesday in York. The next day — when they saw the surveillance photos of a robbery in downtown Lancaster, police said —suddenly, they knew. Tang, 36, who had been released from York County Prison on Monday,......
2009-01-30 11:58:00
CARLA DI FONZO
One suspect was quickly caught and a second was being sought after a teenager was robbed Thursday night in Lancaster Township. The 17-year-old victim told city police that she was approached by two females in the area of Elm and Rider avenues at around 11:30 p.m. The suspects punched the v......
2009-01-30 00:37:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Pittsburgh man was pistol-whipping a woman on a Lancaster city street last year when another man opened fire and killed him, officials say.The fatal shooting of Curtis Howard was justified, the Lancaster County District Attorney's office ruled Thursday, because the shooter, Carlos Oy......
2009-01-29 11:01:00
JANET KELLEY
Ah, if only they could all be this easy. Shortly before 9 this morning, a man called 911 dispatchers from a Manor Street pay phone. It was he, the caller said, who had robbed a downtown bank on Tuesday morning and he wanted to turn himself in. Thuan Han Tang, 36, of Lancaster, was una......
2009-01-28 00:59:00
JENNIFER TODD
City police Tuesday night were seeking a robber who fled the Penn Square branch of Fulton Bank earlier in the day with an unknown amount of cash.According to police, the man entered the bank's North Queen Street entrance about 10:35 a.m. and approached a teller with a note demanding mo......
2009-01-27 11:25:00
STAFF
The Fulton Bank in Penn Square was held up shortly before 11 a.m. today, according to city police. No weapons were displayed, police said, although the suspect indicated that he had a gun when he entered the downtown bank around 10:40 a.m. There were no injuries, police said, and the ro......
2009-01-17 01:06:00
PATRICK BURNS
Lancaster police arrested a third suspect and recovered a Tec-9 automatic weapon allegedly used in two robberies early Jan. 8.Police on Tuesday charged Antwine Shariff Presley, 24, as the alleged gunman in the robberies, which involved two other suspects already in custody.John Alva......
2009-01-15 01:42:00
STAFF REPORT
Three teenagers were threatened and one was robbed Tuesday night by two youths wielding knives in the Prince Street Garage, Lancaster city police said.The three victims, boys ages 16 to 17, were waiting for the elevator about 8:15 p.m. in the garage at Prince and Orange streets when they w......
2009-01-14 01:49:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster County jury returned a split verdict Tuesday in the case of a city man charged in a 2007 shooting.Ricardo Rodriguez was found guilty of aggravated assault for shooting a man — who Rodriguez thought had robbed his home — in the head at point-blank range.The vi......
2009-01-10 00:46:00
PATRICK BURNS
A pair of 250-pound-plus Lancaster men jailed for an early morning robbery Thursday allegedly used an "Uzi-style" assault weapon to commit the crime, according to court records.The suspects — Emmanuel John Alvarez, 21, of the 200 block of West Vine Street, and Travoris Antw......
2009-01-09 01:17:00
TIM STUHLDREHER
A homeless man charged with attempting three bank robberies was charged Thursday with a fourth, committed on Christmas Eve.Ronald Andrew Brown, 37, called a bomb threat into the Fulton Bank in the Manor Shopping Center on Millersville Pike about 10:15 a.m. Dec. 24, city police Det. Lt. Ken......
2009-01-08 11:05:00
JANET KELLEY
Quick action by city police officers resulted in the arrest of two suspected armed robbers early this morning, just minutes after they allegedly held up two teenagers. The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. today, police said, when the teens, ages 18 and 19, were walking in the area of East......
2009-01-08 00:39:00
TIM STUHLDREHER
Lancaster city police say the same man is responsible for two armed robberies more than a year apart at a South Duke Street shopping plaza.Police had already charged Eric Mobley Poindexter, 35, in connection with a Nov. 15 gunpoint robbery at the Family Dollar discount store, 923 S. Duke S......
2009-01-08 00:20:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Testimony began Wednesday in the trial of a Lancaster city man accused of shooting another city resident in the head at point-blank range.Prosecutors allege Ricardo Rodriguez, 32, shot Eberto Perez in retaliation for a home-invasion robbery that occurred at his home early in the morning of......
2009-01-07 00:44:00
TIM STUHLDREHER
The fallout from his painful run-in with Lancaster city police last year hasn't ended for convicted felon Charles Robert Lewis.Two officers shot Lewis, 25, multiple times early Nov. 19 when he allegedly attempted to pull a gun on them as he fled on South Mary Street. The shooting was r......
2009-01-01 00:05:00
PATRICK BURNS
The killing of Jose A. Diaz on Dec. 13 raised the total slayings in Lancaster County this year to 12, equaling 2007's total.An unknown assailant shot Diaz just outside the Lancaster city border, making it the sixth killing investigated by city police in 2008.Police have made arr......
2008-12-31 10:11:00
JANET KELLEY
Nearly one year ago, Antwan Ressel and a friend went on a brief crime spree, police said, burglarizing homes and robbing people, including an elderly Washington Boro woman whose home they hit twice. On Tuesday, the 22-year-old Ressel pleaded guilty in Lancaster County Court to a long list of of......
2008-12-31 10:30:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Bandits robbed a Turkey Hill store near Lititz, three men were caught allegedly breaking into an Ephrata sandwich shop, and a suspect swam across the Conestoga River after a vehicle break-in near Bridgeport, police report. All the incidents happened late Tuesday night or early today. Two m......
2008-12-31 01:13:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A pair of men wielding handguns robbed a Lancaster city convenience store Tuesday night.The men robbed Turkey Hill Market at 806 New Holland Ave. about 9:45 p.m. and fled with an unknown amount of loot, investigators said.As of press time Tuesday night, investigators said no one was......
2008-12-31 01:06:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster County judge spared a teenager prison Tuesday after the youth pleaded guilty to robbing the Amish occupants of a pair of horse-drawn buggies last year in southern Lancaster County.Joseph P. Garvey, who was 16 when he committed the strong-arm robberies in May 2007, was placed on......
2008-12-30 00:36:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Police believe a homeless man robbed three Lancaster County banks in the past four days by threatening employees with phony bombs.Police arrested Ronald A. Brown, 37, Monday, minutes after he allegedly used a fake explosive to rob M&T Bank in Wheatland Shopping Center on Columbia Avenu......
2008-12-28 00:16:00
STAFF
Police were called to a parking lot in the 900 block of South Duke Street, for report of shots fired at 12:50 a.m. Friday. Police said they found a Winchester .380 semi-automatic pistol in the parking lot, but no bullets or casings.
ROBBERY: A 17-year-old boy and Ronald E......
2008-12-27 01:39:00
MICHAEL YODER
A bold would-be robber brought sections of Lancaster city and Manheim Township to a grinding halt during rush hour Friday with attempts to steal money by placing fake bombs at two bank branches, police said.The attempts took place within an hour of each other. Police shut down streets for ......
2008-12-26 11:05:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Lancaster state police are seeking help from citizens who might have spotted "suspicious" activity late Tuesday night around the Hess Express station on Route 30 at Gap. Just before 10 p.m., a man walked into the store at 5387 Lincoln Highway East, Gap, wearing a ski mask and carrying a handgun......
2008-12-24 00:41:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A masked man robbed an Ephrata Rec Center member Monday night as the victim walked out of the facility, police said.Ephrata police are investigating the 8:15 p.m. robbery, which happened in the rec center's parking lot at 130 S. Academy Drive.The victim told police he was approa......
2008-12-18 01:04:00
JENNIFER TODD
The same man has robbed a Sadsbury Township convenience store for the second time in a few weeks, state police believe. The most recent incident occurred Tuesday when police said the suspect entered the Turkey Hill Minit Market on Route 41 shortly after 2 a.m. and demanded money from the clerk....
2008-12-16 10:08:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Lancaster police have charged a 35-year-old city man with committing a gunpoint robbery Nov. 15 at the Family Dollar store, 923 S. Duke St. Eric Mobley Poindexter, 233 Green St., allegedly entered the store before it closed at 8 p.m. and hid until clerks started cleaning up. Poindext......
2008-12-13 01:14:00
MADELYN PENNINO
A man allegedly robbed a bank in Manheim Township Friday morning. A black male entered the Commerce Bank at 1416 Lititz Pike shortly before 9 a.m. and handed a teller a note demanding money, Manheim Township police spokesman Sgt. Todd Rudzinski said. The man, who did not display a weapon, ......
2008-12-12 11:23:00
JANET KELLEY
A Manheim Township bank was robbed this morning by a muscular man who demanded money from the clerks. Minutes before 9 o'clock, police said the man walked into the Commerce Bank, 1416 Lititz Pike, and passed a note to the clerk telling her to hand over the money. No threats were made a......
2008-12-12 01:49:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Two crime suspects, one an alleged bank robber, briefly escaped custody Thursday afternoon, overpowering the constable driving them to Lancaster County Prison after their preliminary hearings, police said.Constable Robert Lawrence suffered minor injuries when 6-foot-9-inch tall Samuel Lee ......
2008-12-11 01:08:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A York man was kidnapped, robbed and shot before managing to stumble into a Brownstown convenience store early Wednesday wearing only his underwear, officials said.The 33-year-old told police he was abducted in York, driven to Lancaster County and dumped along Route 222, where he was robbe......
2008-12-10 12:13:00
JANET KELLEY
A York man is recovering from a gunshot wound today after telling police he was abducted, robbed, wounded and then left along a Lancaster County highway. Around 1:30 a.m. today, West Earl Township Police said the man walked into a convenience store at East Newport Road and Oregon Pike, telling ......
2008-12-09 11:02:00
RYAN ROBINSON
The burglar targeting city churches has struck again. Police said someone stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the Lancaster Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church at East Clay and Plum streets sometime over the weekend. It brings to 13 the number of city churches burglarized since mid-O......
2008-12-03 11:57:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Five men will stand trial on charges they threatened, assaulted and robbed two other men Oct. 7 on West Lemon Street. Miguel Angel Pagan, 21, of Willow Street; Tyson Anthony Thomas, 22, of Lancaster Township; and Tywan Damoss Winder, 22, Dionte Jermaine Floyd, 22, and Jose Daniel Burgos, 24, al......
2008-12-03 00:45:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
One city teen is in custody and a second was being sought Tuesday night after an alleged robbery Tuesday afternoon in Lancaster.According to Lancaster police, two females, ages 15 and 17, were stopped by the two suspects, both male, at 12:41 p.m. in the 400 block of South Shippen Street. T......
2008-12-02 10:25:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Three men fled after allegedly robbing and beating another man Monday night on a Lancaster street, but not all of them got away. Moments after the 9:49 p.m. robbery in the 400 block of North Market Street, city police had a 22-year-old Coatesville man in custody. Officer Justin Miller was ......
2008-11-28 10:00:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A robber struck the Hess Express service station at Gap early Thursday morning, Lancaster state police said. The bandit, who was an unknown male, entered the service station store at 5387 Lincoln Highway East shortly before 4 a.m. and ordered the cashier to remove money from the registers, Troo......
2008-11-20 10:07:00
JANET KELLEY
A young East Hempfield Township woman faces a lengthy prison term after pleading guilty to burglarizing dozens of suburban homes. Amanda Ziedonis, 21, of Colonial Crest Drive, pleaded guilty on Tuesday before Lancaster County Court Judge Howard F. Knisely to multiple counts of burglary, theft, ......
2008-11-17 12:08:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Two robbery investigations and a shooting kept Lancaster City police busy over the weekend and early today. A man walking to work at Lancaster Regional Medical Center, 350 College Ave., was one victim. As the man neared the hospital at around 4:30 a.m. today, another man walked up to him and de......
2008-11-15 01:26:00
MICHAEL YODER
A Lancaster juvenile is facing several serious charges after allegedly brandishing a weapon and robbing a group of students outside Lancaster Catholic High School last month.The 13-year-old has been charged by Manheim Township police Det. Brian Freysz with robbery, attempted robbery, posse......
2008-11-07 01:15:00
MICHAEL YODER
Two Lancaster city men were arrested less than 15 minutes after allegedly attempting a mugging with a BB gun early Thursday, police said.Ivan Alberto Rodriguez-Maldonado, 19, of 601 E. Orange St., Apt. 1, and Angelo Echevarria, 20, of 601 St. Joseph St., Apt. 1, brandished a BB pistol in t......
2008-11-05 10:10:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Masked robbers with guns forced their way into an Adamstown apartment, bound and gagged a young woman with duct tape, and robbed her boyfriend, East Cocalico Township police said. The home-invasion robbery happened late Saturday night. The bandits, who remain at large, did not select the ......
2008-10-30 00:34:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
The lifestyle and attitude of a self-proclaimed teenage "gangster" were outlined Wednesday in Lancaster County Court.At the hearing, Kewuan Jones, 17, was sentenced to 5 to 10 years in state prison for a 2007 armed robbery at a Manheim Township convenience store.But before......
2008-10-29 01:34:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Two Park City Center patrons were beaten and one was stabbed near a bank inside the mall Tuesday afternoon, according to witnesses and police.The victims, whose identities were not released, were attacked by at least five males near a bank in the South Wing of the shopping center, a witnes......
2008-10-28 11:20:00
JANET KELLEY
A robber held up a Harrisburg Avenue bank this morning, according to emergency dispatchers, escaping with cash as he ran north through the city streets, toward Wharton Elementary School. There were no injuries and no weapons displayed during the robbery, which occurred shortly after 10 at th......
2008-10-27 00:06:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A man robbed a store in Paradise on Saturday night by forcing the store manager to the safe at gunpoint, police said.The masked robber approached the female manager a few minutes after Dollar General, 3337 Lincoln Highway (Route 30), had closed, state police Trooper Gerard Sauers......
2008-10-22 09:49:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A 25-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman are being questioned by police today in conjunction with an early morning shoplifting incident at the Turkey Hill store on Harrisburg Pike, near Race Avenue. Shortly before 4 a.m. today police began pursuing a fleeing vehicle after the shoplifting repor......
2008-10-20 10:51:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A man with a baseball bat assaulted two men over the weekend in a North Queen Street parking lot, Manheim Township police said. Shortly before 9 p.m., Friday the suspect assaulted a 41-year-old man while going through his pockets in a parking lot north of West Liberty Street in the 900 block of......
2008-10-20 00:04:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Manheim Township police are looking for suspects in two crimes committed over the weekend: a violent street robbery that left two men injured and a convenience-store holdup.Police said that, based on descriptions provided by the victims, they believe the weekend crimes were committed by di......
2008-10-14 11:17:00
JANET KELLEY
A businessman fought off two robbers as he closed his city grocery store just after midnight, police said. The businessman had locked up his store in the 500 block of Manor Street, police said, and was about to get into his car early this morning when he was approached by two men, one of whom w......
2008-10-14 00:27:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A masked gunman robbed a South Prince Street grocery store Sunday night, Lancaster city police said.The robber, a black man in his early 20s, entered Latin Grocery at 601 S. Prince St. about 8 p.m. and demanded money, according to investigators.Police said the robber pointed a black......
2008-10-10 01:32:00
JENNIFER TODD
A man who allegedly robbed a PNC Bank near Brownstown on Thursday morning was taken into custody 40 minutes after he walked out of the bank with an undetermined amount of cash, police said.Michael Daniel Popalis, 40, no known address, was captured by police in the parking lot of Cloister S......
2008-10-09 11:12:00
BERNARD HARRIS
A middle-aged man walked into the PNC Bank branch at Schaum's Corner with a glove on one hand and a plastic bag and walked out with cash shortly after 8 a.m. today. But his good fortune was short lived. The man, who had not been identified by deadline, was being held by police about......
2008-10-09 02:06:00
PATRICK BURNS
A quick response by police and Terre Hill Borough residents helped land an Ephrata man in jail Tuesday a little more than an hour after police say he pulled a lunchtime bank robbery.Investigators allege a masked Samuel Lee Martin, 36, walked into Susquehanna Bank, 100 W. Main St., Terre Hi......
2008-10-08 01:52:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Two groups of young men have been charged in a pair of armed robberies this week in Lancaster city, police said Tuesday.Two teenagers were charged with robbing a man Monday night in the 700 block of North Shippen Street. Davonte Butts and Christopher Cruz — both age 15 — will b......
2008-10-07 13:34:00
JACK BRUBAKER
State police caught a gunman about an hour after he robbed a Blue Ball bank today, according to a spokesman at the Lancaster State Police barracks. The suspect's name was not immediately available. The suspect held up the Susquehanna Bank, formerly Blue Ball Bank, at 1060 Main St., ......
2008-10-07 11:12:00
JANET KELLEY
Ten minutes after a city man was robbed at gunpoint early Monday evening, city police had several suspects in custody. Two of the suspects, Davonte Butts and Christopher Cruz, both 15, have been charged with robbery and conspiracy, police said. And the teenagers are being charged as adu......
2008-10-07 12:16:00
STAFF
A gunman robbed an East Earl Township bank shortly before noon today, according to county emergency radio dispatchers. The suspect held up the Susquehanna Bank on Main Street, according to dispatchers, about 11:50 a.m. Police dispatchers described the suspect as a white man, 6-foot-3, with......
2008-10-05 00:15:00
STAFF
A man carrying a gun and wearing a red bandanna over his face robbed the Turkey Hill store at 14 N. State St. in Brownstown at 2:29 a.m. Saturday, West Earl Township Police said. The robber forced the clerk to open the register and turn over an undisclosed amount of cash, police said. The ......
2008-10-03 00:59:00
JENNIFER TODD
Two jewelry-counter robberies that occurred less than an hour apart Thursday morning might have been committed by the same man who robbed a jewelry store Wednesday, police said.Lancaster city police Detective Lt. Kent Switzer said "similarities, plus the close proximity of the inciden......
2008-10-03 00:54:00
PATRICK BURNS
Justice for bank robbers in Lancaster County can be swift and harsh.Police tracked down and arrested Derwin J. Matthews of Lancaster on Dec. 20, 2006, less than a day after he grabbed a few thousand dollars from the Bank of Lancaster County branch at 25 N. Duke St.Jeffrey L. Ziegler......
2008-10-02 11:10:00
JANET KELLEY
A robber escaped with two diamond rings from a Park City Center store late this morning, according to city police dispatchers. Shortly before 11 a.m. today, clerks at the JCPenney store told police a man stole the jewelry and escaped in an older-model, burgundy-colored, four-door sedan....
2008-09-19 01:19:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
The death of a 90-year-old Lancaster County woman who had a heart attack two days after being robbed at gunpoint has been ruled a homicide, according to police and the county coroner.Anna M. Sensenig's heart attack was "directly" caused by the home invasion, officials said Th......
2008-09-18 11:18:00
TOM MURSE
A troubled Terre Hill man who committed suicide in South Carolina June 22 rather than surrender to police, was the same man who robbed a 90-year-old woman here days before, causing her death, authorities said today. Travis J. Meints, 21, who fatally shot himself in a friend's mobile home ne......
2008-09-09 01:00:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Two Coatesville men have been charged with felony armed robbery for a Lancaster city stickup that netted them nothing, officials said.Demetrius Artis and Rashiek Simpson, both 21, threatened a 41-year-old city man late Sunday night while displaying a handgun, police said.The victim ......
2008-09-08 11:05:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Two young Coatesville men allegedly robbed a 41-year-old man at gunpoint late Sunday night in the city's Cabbage Hill area, police report. Officers arrested Demetrius Artis and Rashiek Simpson, both 21, after they allegedly robbed the victim at about 11:30 p.m at High and Strawberry streets, Sg......
2008-09-03 10:45:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Police have found and arrested a Lancaster man who was the alleged getaway driver when a woman robbed an East Hempfield Township convenience store at gunpoint on Aug. 12. Robert J.. Medina, 39, of 512 Green St., waited outside while Tara Leigh Dorsey held up the Turkey Hill Minit Market at 21 C......
2008-09-02 11:16:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
An armed bandit held up a convenience store in Manheim late Monday night and fled with two accomplices, police said. The robbery reportedly happened shortly before 10 at the Unimart store, 191 N. Main St. (Route 72), at the north end of town. Manheim police were notified about the ro......
2008-08-29 02:39:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Steve Clayton was ordered Thursday to stand trial after prosecutors presented testimony tying him to the stabbing death of a Lancaster resident.Jeff Kerek, 57, was found dead in early April inside his Hershey Avenue home. Lancaster city police say he was stabbed to death during the course ......
2008-08-28 01:14:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster County man died last weekend in a head-on crash in Chester County, minutes after he robbed a convenience store and fled a traffic stop, police said Wednesday.Jesus Muriel-Torres, 25, robbed a Sunoco station in Parkesburg at knifepoint early Saturday morning, then sped away on R......
2008-08-27 01:16:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
One of four Lancaster city residents charged with the 2006 murder of Shawn "Red" Hutchinson was sentenced Tuesday to 10 to 20 years in state prison.Liz Rosario-Casanova, 30, was the final defendant to be sentenced for the drug-related killing that occurred outside a city apartmen......
2008-08-18 11:29:00
CINDY STAUFFER
The bandit may have been red-handed but he just couldn't wait to start spending the money he stole in a recent bank robbery. Turns out he is a big spender, who shops locally. He favors convenience and discount stores, showing up late in the afternoon and early in the evening. He is spe......
2008-08-17 00:15:00
STAFF
A Saturday morning fire, apparently sparked by a short in an electrical line, chased three people from their two-story frame home on Clearview Road in Clay Township, said Donald Moyer, Durlach-Mount Airy fire chief. No injuries were reported and the residents were not identified. The......
2008-08-15 00:21:00
JANET KELLEY
Two masked gunmen robbed a bank in Leacock Township this morning, according to county emergency dispatchers. Shortly before 10 a.m., dispatchers reported that two men - both displaying handguns - entered the Susquehanna Bank at 3433 Old Philadelphia Pike. There were no reported injuries, d......
2008-08-15 10:40:00
JANET KELLEY
A Lancaster man charged with the armed robbery of a convenience store last month was arrested Thursday after he allegedly pulled a knife on a store clerk in Philadelphia. William Allen Whitlock, 18, whose last known address was the first block of East James Street, was identified as the suspect......
2008-08-14 01:05:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Three Elizabethtown men have been charged with luring three local men to an apartment, then beating and robbing them.The victims were ambushed in a bathroom Saturday when they arrived at Randy Detz's South Chestnut Street apartment, according to court documents.Detz, his brother......
2008-08-14 00:57:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Police used DNA on a shirt left at the scene of a 2006 robbery near East Petersburg Park to link a Lancaster city man to the crime.Jerthione Lamont Bell and an unknown accomplice assaulted and robbed two teenage boys who were walking from the park Dec. 31, 2006, police allege.The vi......
2008-08-14 00:50:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A woman has been charged with committing an armed robbery early Tuesday morning at a Turkey Hill convenience store in East Hempfield Township.Meanwhile, police in Lancaster city are investigating a separate strong-arm robbery — also at a Turkey Hill store — that occurred late T......
2008-08-13 11:12:00
JANET KELLEY
Who says police are never around when you need them? Two city policemen, on routine patrol early Tuesday morning, came upon a robbery of pedestrians, chased the suspect down on foot, captured him, and recovered the victim's stolen purse. City police said there has been a rash of similar......
2008-08-13 10:56:00
JANET KELLEY
A woman was in jail today, one day after said she allegedly displayed a gun and robbed a Centerville Road convenience store clerk, East Hempfield Township police said. Tara Leigh Dorsey, 35, of 3026 Todd Lane, was arrested by township police Detective Tammy Marsh and charged with robbing the......
2008-08-13 01:31:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A rash of late-night robberies and assaults has prompted Lancaster city police to issue a public warning to anyone who goes out for a drink or a nighttime stroll.Police say there has been a spike in reports in the past month of unsuspecting pedestrians being the victims of crime.In ......
2008-08-12 22:17:00
LISA GRIMAUD
The mothers of two East Petersburg Borough boys who were attacked with baseball bats July 27 asked council members Aug. 5 what is being done to ensure the safety of their children.The incident occurred near East Petersburg Park, where several residents looked on without offering assistance......
2008-08-12 11:06:00
JANET KELLEY
A woman with a black handgun in her waistband robbed an East Hempfield Township convenience store clerk early this morning, police said, while her male companion waited in a getaway car. The clerk, alone in the Turkey Hill Minit Market at 23 Centerville Road when the robbery occurred, was no......
2008-08-05 11:02:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Three young Lancaster males are in custody for last week's alleged robbery and baseball-bat beating of teenage boys near the East Petersburg Park. Christian Rivera-Rodriguez, 18, of 229 Juniata St., and two 17-year-old boys have been arrested and charged with robbery, aggravated assault and......
2008-08-05 00:52:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Manheim Township police charged three Lancaster city teens — and have identified a fourth suspect — in the baseball-bat beating and robbery of five teenagers last week, officials said Monday.Police believe the four suspects, all males, jumped a group of younger teens July 27 ne......
2008-08-04 11:30:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A group of young city residents apparently picked the wrong time to rob an East Lampeter Township service station. An off-duty state police trooper was pumping gasoline into his private vehicle at Tom's Mobil, 1954 Old Philadelphia Pike, late Sunday night when 18-year-old Paul Allen Caldwel......
2008-07-30 10:53:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A search for an armed robber shut down Lancaster General Hospital's parking garage for about an hour Tuesday night. The incident began when a white man, about 18 to 20 years old, entered the Turkey Hill at North Queen and East Clay streets at 10 p.m. He displayed what appeared to be a large......
2008-07-30 01:59:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Lancaster city police scoured a construction site along North Queen Street late Tuesday night searching for a man who reportedly robbed a nearby Turkey Hill.The suspect hadn't been apprehended as of the Intelligencer Journal's press time, and some police remained on the scene &mdas......
2008-07-29 10:17:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A "desperate" burglar smashed a front window of a North Duke Street eye doctor's office today and fled with a computer and possibly other items, city police said. Officers discovered the break-in at Dr. Justin L. Cappiello's office, 324 N. Duke St., when they responded to a sh......
2008-07-29 10:07:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
While a Manheim Township police officer was patrolling the Golden Triangle shopping center on Lititz Pike early today, a burglar alarm sounded in the complex. Officer Jason Myers immediately headed toward the Rent-A-Center store where the alarm sounded at 1:58 a.m. As the police officer&n......
2008-07-25 10:13:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
A $1,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the second robber in this week's fatal shooting in Manheim. The reward, announced today, comes three days after a business store manager was forced to fire two rounds that struck the first suspect, who died. The s......
2008-07-25 10:08:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A man using a laptap computer on top of a trash can was the victim of a strong-armed robbery shortly after midnight today in Manor Township. The victim, of Lancaster, was using his computer outside the CVS store at 2020 Columbia Ave. when he was approached by the robber, police said. The r......
2008-07-25 01:12:00
JENNIFER TODD
Police said the quick thinking of a Manheim-area business owner might have saved the man's life during an armed robbery Wednesday. When a gunman entered Patterns of the Sea antiques store shortly after 5:30 p.m. and demanded money, owner Gary Seachrist handed over $1,000 he had in his pants poc......
2008-07-24 11:05:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A Manheim-area businessman said he faked a heart attack to protect himself from an armed robber late Wednesday afternoon. And after the gunman fled from his antiques store at Elm with about $1,000, Gary Seachrist came outside and fired several shots with his own handgun into the air, Penn Towns......
2008-07-24 01:36:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Held up at gunpoint by a pair of would-be robbers, a manager of a Manheim Borough business was "entirely justified" when he pulled out his own gun and killed one of the intruders, Lancaster County's district attorney said Wednesday. Kevin Lee Smith, the 19-year-old killed during t......
2008-07-24 01:34:00
P.J. REILLY
As a sales associate in the gun department at Kinsey's Outdoors, Ben Bode has seen a lot of firearms. When he saw the photographs published by Lancaster Newspapers on Tuesday and Wednesday of a gun that police say was discarded by a would-be robber in Manheim, he immediately recognized it....
2008-07-24 01:24:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A convenience store clerk wrestled with a man who tried to rob him as he emptied trash early Wednesday morning in East Petersburg, police said. Manheim Township police Sgt. Robert Baldwin said the robber used an unorthodox technique in an attempt to obtain cash from the Turkey Hill Minit Market......
2008-07-23 11:55:00
TOM MURSE and DAN RORABAUGH
The 40-year-old plant manager, who arrived at work before dawn, had been a robbery victim one too many times. He started carrying a handgun six months ago. The 19-year-old Lancaster man, who had been abandoned by his biological mother at birth, had a host of behavioral issues and numerous scrap......
2008-07-23 00:05:00
MICHAEL YODER
John Roads believes people should be able to defend themselves against criminals, even if it means using a firearm.The owner of Power Pro Battery Co., 210 S. Penn St., Manheim, said it was the right to possess a gun that potentially saved the life of his operations manager Tuesday and ende......
2008-07-22 11:25:00
TOM MURSE and JOHN M. HOOBER III
Two would-be robbers, apparently lying in wait before daybreak, picked on the wrong victim in Manheim early today. One suspect, a 19-year-old Lancaster city man, was shot in the chest and died hours later at a local hospital. The other fled on foot — without any loot — and i......
2008-07-21 12:01:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A Lancaster man fought off an armed robber at his Cabbage Hill home, another city man was the victim of safecrackers, and a taxi driver was robbed just outside the city this past weekend, police report. No injuries were reported from the three incidents, and no arrests have been made. A re......
2008-07-21 00:41:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 52-year-old Lancaster city man warded off an armed home-invader who tried to rob him late Saturday night, according to police.The man prevented the intruder from getting into his home in the 600 block of Saint Joseph Street by "blocking him out" at a rear sliding door, police s......
2008-07-17 11:23:00
JANET KELLEY
A Lancaster judge acknowledged today that a tearful young Ephrata woman has serious mental health issues and was influenced by her boyfriend when they robbed her 88-year-old grandmother. But, Judge Dennis Reinaker told Melissa Hurst, it was she who "set this whole thing in motion" and did nothi......
2008-07-12 01:43:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster County jury watched a slide show Friday depicting the horrific homicide scene that Pedro Fuentes Flores allegedly left behind.Jurors also saw autopsy slides showing the wounds inflicted upon Karen Crowley, the woman prosecutors say Flores killed.Prosecutors presented the......
2008-07-11 01:00:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
After Pedro Fuentes Flores repeatedly stabbed Karen Crowley, making sure she was dead, he robbed her and burned her body, prosecutors said Thursday in Lancaster County Court.During his opening statement, Assistant District Attorney Christopher P. Larsen, who is seeking a first-degree murde......
