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Bucks County detectives from Hilltown Township to Yardley have a mystery on their hands in the form of a bizarre crime spree, in which the district attorney’s office says one person or a number of individuals have unlawfully entered nearly 1,000 cars in the past year.
The clash between some of Pennsylvania’s counties, businesses and state officials over the continuation of Gov. Tom Wolf’s stay-at-home order and business shutdown also involves law enforcement, and Northampton County’s top elected enforcer weighed in on the divide Wednesday.
A man charged with rape and kidnapping in January who set a fire in Hilltown Township in which he died Tuesday should not have been out of prison, the Bucks County District Attorney said today.
The Bucks County District Attorney is fighting back against e-cigarette makers JUUL and Eonsmoke, announcing Wednesday the filing of a lawsuit alleging a plot to lure minors into getting hooked on vaping.
Christian Howard Willman, a former Palisades High School teacher and girls’ soccer coach, has been sentenced to state prison for the sexual abuse of six students.
A former Quakertown-area drug dealer who is serving a state prison sentence for running a drug network authorities once said left the borough and much of Upper Bucks County “awash with heroin” has received additional time in state prison for trying to sell drugs behind bars.
A Bucks County corrections officer who took undercover investigators on a paid, guided fishing trip this summer while receiving workers’ compensation has been charged with fraud and theft.
Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said Tuesday that some explosive devices allegedly deployed earlier this year by suspected Upper Bucks bomber David W. Surman Jr. and his alleged co-conspirator and girlfriend Tina May Smith could still be live and a danger to members of the public. Devices have been linked to explosions in Milford Township, as well as Ottsville and Upper Black Eddy.
Bucks County DA Matthew Weintraub on Thursday announced the arrest of David W. Surman Jr., 30, of 2470 N. Old Bethlehem Pike, Milford Township, at a news conference at Richland Township Police Dept. headquarters. Surman was later arraigned on felony charges of unlawfully possessing or manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.
Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli announced at a news conference Tuesday that following an investigation, his office will pursue charges of ethnic intimidation and cyber harassment against a 14-year-old Saucon Valley High School student who allegedly filmed and shared on social media a racist video of a 16-year-old black student, which led to a fight at the SVHS Homecoming Pep Rally in October.
