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......
2009-11-05 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......
2009-11-01 00:16:00
STAFF
An East Earl Township man was critically injured Thursday night after a one-vehicle crash in New Holland Borough. Police said that Robert C. Innes Jr., 41, was heading east in the 500 block of East Main Street when he failed to negotiate a left curve. The vehicle then traveled through ......
2009-10-30 00:03:00
JANET KELLEY
Jose Montanez cried as he confessed to the detective his part in a city shooting in August.Montanez, 24, of North Plum Street, said he'd gone to an East Orange Street apartment with his friend, who was upset with Anthony C. Swaydis.He told police he fired one gunshot at Swaydis,......
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......
2009-10-28 14:05:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An armed robber struck a city grocery store Tuesday night, police said.The robbery occurred at the Plum Street Grocery, 599½ N. Plum St., at 9:30 p.m., according to police.The robber displayed a gun, demanded cash from a store worker and then fled on foot with an undisclosed ......
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 11½ 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......
2009-10-21 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 5½ 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......
2009-10-14 22:01:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Multiple gun shots were fired as a would-be robber struggled with an employee at the Belvedere Inn in the city Tuesday night, police said.The shots-fired call was dispatched at 11:53 p.m. at the 402 N. Queen St. restaurant, police said.The suspect entered the carryout section at the......
2009-10-13 22:18:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A robber brandished a handgun at a city gas station Monday night, police said.Two men entered the Sunoco station at 777 New Holland Ave. at about 9 p.m., police said.One displayed a black, semi-automatic handgun and demanded that one of the two employees in the store open the cash r......
2009-10-13 11:47:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A former Mount Joy man tried to rob a food store worker in Phillipsburg, N. J., Sunday night and busted out of the local police station before being caught, police said. Jeremy D. Surette, 35, is formerly of the 4000 block of Laurel Lane, Greenwich Township Police said in a press release. ......
2009-10-13 11:14:00
RYAN ROBINSON
City police are trying to determine the identity of a teenager who robbed four 12-year-old boys in Lancaster Township Sunday night, according to police.The young boys played at Hamilton Elementary School and then were walking through the Hershey Heritage Apartments area along Misty Drive a......
2009-10-13 00:01:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A pizza deliveryman was robbed near a drinking establishment in the city on Friday night, police reported.He delivered a pizza to a customer at Kelsey's Pub, 14 N. Broad St., at about 8:20 p.m., police said.Two men followed the 27-year-old city deliveryman as he left the bar, po......
2009-10-12 13:23:00
RYAN ROBINSON
When a woman asked him to walk her home from outside a bar at 2 a.m., he may have thought it was his lucky day.Instead, he got robbed.A 26-year-old city man had just left Cosmos Bar & Grill, 464 Manor St., on Sunday when a woman in her 40s approached and asked him to walk her ho......
2009-10-11 00:18:00
STAFF
A Pequea man was flown by helicopter to Lancaster General Hospital after a two-vehicle collision at about 11 a.m. Saturday at Blue Rock and River roads, Manor Township. Harry I. Martin Jr., 48, was driving a 1996 Dodge Ram pickup loaded with firewood and Barry R. Reynolds, 45, Lancaster, was......
2009-10-09 21:29:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two men robbed a 49-year-old city man at gunpoint Wednesday afternoon in the first block of West Filbert Street, city police said.One robber had a black semi-automatic handgun, police said.The robbers directed the man to an apartment in the 400 block of Manor Street and struck him i......
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......
2009-10-07 11:33:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police are looking for a robber who told a Lancaster city man he had a gun and then stole a bag of chips from him Tuesday night.The robbery occurred in the 300 block of West Lemon Street at 10:30 p.m., city police said."He made statements that he had a gun, and a scuffle ensued," Lt......
2009-10-06 09:36:00
JANET KELLEY
The Penn Square branch of Fulton Bank was robbed shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday, police said.Police said no weapon was displayed during the robbery.Shortly after the 9:15 a.m. holdup, city police broadcast a description of the suspect. He was described as a Hispanic man, 5 feet 5 inch......
2009-10-05 08:28:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A man robbed a McDonald's manager at gunpoint early Sunday, East Hempfield Township police said.The robber waited outside the McDonald's at 1755 Columbia Ave., police said. He displayed a small black handgun as the manager left the restaurant carrying the night deposit bag at 6:24 ......
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 ......
2009-09-29 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 ......
2009-09-28 00:02:00
P.J. REILLY
East Hempfield Township police on Saturday arrested a man wanted for robbery in New York.Evan R. Greenberg, 20, of Mamaroneck, N.Y., was arrested at 11 p.m. Saturday at the Sheetz store, 3101 Columbia Ave.According to a news release, East Hempfield police Sgt. Dennis Eberly checked ......
2009-09-25 07:55:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
It sounded like such a good idea at the time. Linn Moedinger, president and chief mechanical officer of the Strasburg Rail Road, wanted all the supervisors on staff to come up with an idea for a special event the railroad could host this season. Being a diverse staff, of course, everyon......
2009-09-23 12:51:00
RYAN ROBINSON
East Hempfield Township Police have charged three teenagers with robbing two other teens in the parking lot of Carlos & Charlie's, 2309 Columbia Ave., Tuesday night. A man and woman, both 19 years old, were waiting in a vehicle for someone in the parking lot of the restaurant around 10:......
2009-09-23 00:04:00
RYAN ROBINSON
City police nabbed a teenager they say used a fake pistol in a robbery in the 200 block of Harrisburg Avenue, near North Prince Street, Monday night.It is one of several robberies police are investigating in recent days.Police got a call that a 23-year-old man had been robbed of a s......
2009-09-22 10:56:00
RYAN ROBINSON
City police nabbed a teenager who they say used a fake pistol in a robbery along Harrisburg Pike, near North Prince Street, Monday night. Police arrested a 17-year-old boy in the 400 block of North Queen Street at 11:18 p.m., police said. That was 15 minutes after police got the call that a&nbs......
2009-09-22 07:46:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two men punched a 17-year-old Lancaster boy, struck him with a baseball bat and robbed him Monday night at a Manor Township park, police said. At about 7:45, the teen-ager was in Charlestown Park, 2670 Charlestown Road, when two men approached him, police said. One punched him in the face and t......
2009-09-19 00:20:00
JANET KELLEY
A Lancaster County judge said when he thinks about Ray Diener's murder, he'll always wonder, "What if?" "I will always wonder," Judge Joseph Madenspacher asked Emru Kebede on Friday, "if you refused to go along that day, what would have happened?" &......
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......
2009-09-13 00:18:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
It's been a rough few months on Columbia Avenue. Since April, the heavily traveled route out of the City of Lancaster has been the scene of seven high-profile crimes, including armed robberies and savage beatings, all within a half-mile stretch between Wheatland Shopping Center and Good ......
2009-09-11 12:44:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two young men robbed a woman at knifepoint in the 200 block of West James Street Thursday night, police said.They tried to steal her purse, but she resisted, police said. Then one of them — described as a black male in his late teens, 5 feet 11 inches to 6 feet tall, thin build &mdas......
2009-09-11 00:04:00
JANET KELLEY
Ray Diener's wife and children clutched hands and held their breath as the jurors filed into a Lancaster County courtroom Thursday afternoon.They didn't exhale until the jury's verdict was announced, declaring Emru Kebede guilty of second-degree murder in the death of the 65-ye......
2009-09-11 00:02:00
RYAN ROBINSON
City police are investigating a robbery that occurred in the 100 block of South Ann Street about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, police said.An 18-year-old woman told police two men — both described as 25 to 26 years old, 5-foot-11 and medium build — approached her and an 18-year-old male f......
2009-09-10 13:11:00
JANET KELLEY
A Lancaster County jury is expected to begin deliberations today in the case of a teenager charged in the murder of Ray Diener. Emru Kebede, now 18, of Mount Joy, one of four young men charged with the May 2007 killing, had indicated earlier that he wanted to testify in his own defese.......
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 00:04:00
JANET KELLEY
A color photograph of Ray Diener's dead body, covered with a white sheet, was flashed on a large screen in the corner of the Lancaster County courtroom Wednesday.A state trooper held up one of the bullets taken from the 65-year-old Elizabethtown area man's body and showed the jury ......
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......
2009-09-09 13:28:00
JANET KELLEY
A color photograph of Ray Diener's body, covered in a white sheet, was flashed onto a screen in a Lancaster County courtroom this morning. Diener, 65, was shot and killed on the doorstep of his West Donegal Township home during a random robbery in May 2007. Today, police told the ju......
2009-09-09 06:20:00
LARRY ALEXANDER and RYAN ROBINSON
An Elizabethtown man forced his way into a New Jersey apartment, assaulted two people with a blunt object and demanded their money Thursday night, police said.Peter Vito Fultano Jr., 26, fled the scene before officers arrived at the Blackwood, N.J., apartment at around 9 p.m., police said.......
2009-09-09 00:01:00
JANET KELLEY
The teenager told police that he and his friends drove around looking for the perfect victim.Then they spotted 65-year-old Ray Diener inside his rural West Donegal Township home.The plan was to knock on the door, push their way inside and rob the homeowner.But things went ter......
2009-09-08 13:50:00
JANET KELLEY
Barbara Diener told a Lancaster County jury this morning, how she was awakened on the night of May 2, 2007, by something she never heard before. "I heard my husband scream," Mrs. Diener testified. No words, she said, just a loud noise, "like pain." Mrs. Di......
2009-09-04 00:04:00
JANET KELLEY
Lancaster County jurors received quick lessons in Pennsylvania law on Thursday.Juveniles charged with criminal homicide are treated as adults, attorneys explained.In the case they are being asked to decide, Emru Kebede, now 18, of Mount Joy, was 16 years old when he was charged with......
2009-09-01 08:23:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A bank robber offered an unusual explanation Monday for why he held up an Ephrata bank in 2007.He did it to get away from his abusive wife, he told a judge during his sentencing in Lancaster County Court.In fact, Anthony Miller, 39, wanted so badly to escape his wife — even if......
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......
2009-09-01 00:03:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Three assailants struck and robbed a 22-year-old man while he was walking in the 600 block of North Mary Street Friday night, city police said.Sometime between 8:30 and 9, the man was punched in the face and knocked unconscious, police said. He went to Lancaster General Hospital for treatm......
2009-08-31 00:03:00
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....
2009-08-27 16:57:00
STAFF REPORT
A 50-year-old Lititz man was robbed by two men in the 100 block of Fairview Avenue shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday, police said. The man was pushed but not injured. The attackers stole $21 cash.One suspect is a white man, 20 to 30 years old, 5-foot-3 to 5-foot-9, thin, with a light complexi......
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......
2009-08-26 00:07:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police are investigating several recent robberies and burglaries.• East Lampeter Township police said someone entered Texas Roadhouse between 12:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Monday and removed an undisclosed amount of cash from the restaurant at 2317 Lincoln Highway Ea......
2009-08-23 00:20:00
STAFF
A 72-year-old Lititz man was sent to Lancaster County Prison in lieu of $40,000 bail as the result of a three-month investigation into the sexual assault of a 12-year-old child. Samuel R. Snader turned himself in Wednesday and was charged with corruption of minors, felony intimidation of witnes......
2009-08-22 11:55:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
An attempted armed robbery was reported Saturday morning at a city drug store. County police dispatchers said a man displayed a knife at the Rite-Aid store, 825 E. Chestnut St. before fleeing in a dark-colored car, possibly a Mitsubishi Gallant, that was last seen heading the wrong way on East ......
2009-08-21 11:45:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A man accused of holding up a Manheim Township bank is behind bars. Anthony M. Guarducci, 35, who police says has no current address, has been charged by Manheim Township police Detective Cleon Berntheizel with robbery and theft. Guarducci is charged in Wednesday's robbery of......
2009-08-21 00:08:00
RYAN ROBINSON
This one's for you, Mr. Would-Be Hold-Up Man. A worker threw a can of beer at a gunman Wednesday night, foiling a robbery at a city store. Two men with bandannas over their faces attempted to rob the business with a shotgun but were apparently thwarted by an airborne can of beer, accor......
2009-08-20 00:18:00
TOM MURSE
A man robbed a Manheim Township bank late Wednesday morning and was apparently captured by police less than five minutes later — with two toddlers in the back seat of the getaway car. No charges had been filed as of Wednesday night, but police were interviewing a suspect and a second adul......
2009-08-20 00:12:00
JANET KELLEY
He admitted robbing a bank and two stores at gunpoint. And then, after Samuel Lee Martin was caught, he escaped by overpowering a constable and stealing his car. "I'm terribly, terribly regretful for what happened," Martin told a Lancaster County judge on Wednesday. "I know I messed u......
2009-08-20 00:08:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police have charged a city man with robbing his neighbor and threatening to kill him if he reported the crime, according to police. Victor Manuel Vergara-Lopez, 35, of 21 New Dorwart St., Apt. 3, is charged with entering Apt. 2 in the building, holding a knife to the neck of a 26-year-old man l......
2009-08-20 00:06:00
STAFF
City police are seeking two men who robbed The Den adult book store, 53 N. Prince St., Sunday evening. The men entered the store just after 7:30 p.m. and struck a 41-year-old employee on the head, "almost knocking him out," Lt. Todd Umstead said Wednesday. Police said the bandits......
2009-08-20 10:05:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two men with bandanas over their faces attempted to rob a city business with a shotgun Wednesday night but were apparently thwarted by a can of beer, police said today. Two employees of Six Packs on Vine, 401 W. Vine St., were in the process of closing the store when two men entered wearing bla......
2009-08-20 09:32:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Manheim Township Police have identified a man charged with robbing the Fulton Bank office at 38 McGovern Ave., Wednesday morning. Anthony M. Guarducci, 35, of 337 Hollow View, Manheim, was also charged with theft in the case, police said. A second person taken into custody was not charged,......
2009-08-19 13:22:00
STAFF
Manheim Township police said the Fulton Bank on McGovern Avenue was robbed late this morning, and that they have a suspect in custody. No one was injured, and no weapons were displayed, Sgt. Tom Rudzinski said. The Fulton Bank, at 38 E. McGovern Ave., is across the street from the Lancaste......
2009-08-18 10:35:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police have charged a city man with robbing and threatening to kill a man who lived one apartment away from him. Victor Manuel Vergara-Lopez, 35, of 21 New Dorwart St., Apt. 3, is charged with entering Apt. 2 in the building, holding a knife to the neck of a 26-year-old man living there, and de......
2009-08-16 00:17:00
MELISSA JULIUS
A shot was fired during a robbery outside the Dairy Queen, 1935 Columbia Ave., East Hempfield Township, just after 10 p.m. Friday. An employee, Travis Jones, 21, of Millersville, was taking out the trash to the rear of the building. As Jones closed the lid, a man dressed in black came out from ......
2009-08-15 00:23:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A resident of a York halfway house has been arrested for robbing a Lancaster bank.Daniel Clark Bruce, 49, also known as Jerry Covey, was arrested Tuesday in Baltimore County, Md., where he had allegedly committed another bank robbery. Bruce was in possession of a car reportedly stolen Aug.......
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......
2009-08-13 00:11:00
CINDY STAUFFER and LARRY ALEXANDER
Hector Ortiz Fuentes was doing what he normally does Tuesday morning: heading to a city bus stop to catch a ride to Dart Container in Leola, his daughter says.But before Fuentes, a 38-year-old father of three, could get to his bus stop, someone shot him in the neck and killed him.Ci......
2009-08-12 07:44:00
RYAN ROBINSON
City police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred in the 400 block of Fremont Street Monday night. A resident told police that at 11:50 p.m., two men — one with a black revolver, the other with a black handgun — entered her apartment to rob her, police said. But they did ......
2009-08-12 00:02:00
JANET KELLEY
Two men are dead.That much city police know.But who shot them and whether the two killings are related is still a mystery.Police believe the Tuesday morning shootings were not random, but until arrests have been made, they can't be sure.And police also aren't s......
2009-08-11 00:02:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A group of men robbed and stabbed a 19-year-old Manheim Township man in the 1400 block of Fruitville Pike on Saturday night, police said.The man was walking at 10 p.m. when four or five men in their 20s started to punch and kick him, Manheim Township police said. The victim also sustained ......
2009-08-10 10:00:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A 19-year-old Manheim Township man told police he was stabbed during a robbery in the 1400 block of Fruitville Pike at 10 p.m. Saturday, police said. The man was walking along Fruitville Pike when four or five people punched and kicked him, taking $35 and a cell phone, police said. He also......
2009-08-09 00:22:00
STAFF
A couple was arrested Thursday afternoon for operating what police called a marijuana "grow operation" in their home. Manheim Township police acted on a search warrant at 576 Candlewyck Road, home of Jaron A. Bell Sr., 27, and Tanisia D. Corbin, 24, at 2:40 p.m. Thursday. Police found six ......
2009-08-09 00:18:00
PAULA WOLF
Manor Township police are looking for a man who slashed a woman in the face Friday night as she left her house. Police also are seeking his accomplice in the attack, which happened in the 100 block of Eagle Path. Manor Township police Sgt. Jim Alexander said the 23-year-old woman, whose na......
2009-08-07 11:32:00
RYAN ROBINSON
City police are investigating a second bank robbery in the last two days.A man robbed the PNC Bank at 949 E. King St. at 9:08 a.m. today, according to police.He fled on foot with an undetermined amount of cash prior to officers' arrival, police said. There was no weapon displaye......
2009-08-07 00:08:00
JANET KELLEY
A pair of robbers held up a Columbia Avenue bank Thursday morning, police said, then escaped with an undisclosed amount of money.At 9:42 a.m., city police said, the men entered Northwest Savings Bank, 922 Columbia Ave., and handed the teller a demand note.They displayed no weapons, ......
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......
2009-08-02 00:17:00
JON RUTTER and JEANNETTE SCOTT, Staff Writers
Two ball caps. Two weeks. Two bank robberies across the street from one another. Manheim Township police said it all added up to one 24-year-old robbery suspect. On Friday, they charged Jose Roberto Cucurullo-Taveras with the crimes. Now, said Manheim Township police Sgt. Thomas E. Ru......
2009-08-01 12:52:00
JEANNETTE SCOTT
A warrant has been issued for Jose Roberto Cucurullo-Taveras, 24, address unknown, by Manheim Township Police on charges related to two bank robberies. He was charged Friday. The first robbery happened Monday, July 16 at 10:28 a.m. at Metro Bank, 1416 Lititz Pike, Lancaster. The second ro......
2009-07-31 10:14:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A 19-year-old man was stabbed in the arm during a holdup early Friday in the 600 block of West Orange Street, police said.Three or four people stopped the man and demanded money from him, Lancaster city police Sgt. Mike Winters said.The man complied, but was cut on the arm during th......
2009-07-29 00:06:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Manheim Township Police are asking for the public's help to solve the robberies of two banks across the street from each other in the last two weeks.They have released photographs from both robberies and hope they will generate useful tips.The two suspects appear to be different......
2009-07-25 00:03:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Robbers and burglars continue to strike Lancaster city.Four males approached a 17-year-old boy in the 700 block of Fourth Street about 2 a.m. Friday, police said.One was described as a Hispanic boy in his teens, 6 feet tall, with black hair and a goatee, wearing black mesh shorts an......
2009-07-24 08:01:00
STAFF REPORT
Police in East Hempfield Township are seeking a man who committed an armed robbery Saturday at the Dollar General store, 1805 Columbia Ave.The bandit, wearing a black ski mask and brandishing a semi-automatic handgun, forced his way into the store as an employee was leaving for the night a......
2009-07-24 00:06:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Lancaster city police are investigating a robbery and three burglaries that occurred this week.A 33-year-old man told police that a person carrying a black semiautomatic handgun robbed him in the rear parking lot of Charles' Laundry, 425 E. Orange St., near midnight Thursday.The vic......
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 00:03:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Manor Township police have charged a Mountville man with robbing an 80-year-old woman outside a CVS store July 14.Michael Richard Eddy, 36, of 35 Lincoln West Apartments, allegedly pushed the woman, who was walking with a cane, police said. She fell face-first to the cement sidewalk outsid......
2009-07-19 00:16:00
JON RUTTER
Police traced a man suspected of robbing a city grocery store into the basement of a nearby house Friday and captured him with the help of a K-9 dog. Khalil Kahree Hammond, 20, of the 500 block of South Christian Street, was taken into custody after he tried to hide from officers, police said....
2009-07-17 02:00:00
STAFF
Manheim Township police are seeking a man who robbed Metro Bank, 1415 Lititz Pike, Thursday morning. Police said a Hispanic male in his late 20s entered the bank shortly before 10:30 a.m. and demanded cash from a teller. He then fled with an undisclosed amount of cash and was last......
2009-07-17 00:15:00
JENNIFER TODD
A man wanted for a string of pizza-delivery robberies in Lancaster County has been arrested in Virginia, police said Thursday. Officials from the Frederick County Sheriff's Department discovered Elvin Perez Jr., 19, was wanted here on robbery charges after he was involved in a fight and arr......
2009-07-10 00:03:00
P.J. REILLY
A team of deputies operating under the direction of the U.S. Marshals Service scoured Lancaster County throughout the month of June, hunting for wanted and suspected felons.The deputies ended up putting nearly four dozen behind bars, for charges ranging from armed robbery to sex assaults o......
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......
