CRIME & SAFETY
PSP Vehicle Involved In Crash On I-95 In Delaware County: Troopers
It happened in the southbound lanes near mile marker 6.2 in Chester, police wrote in a report. A driver crashed off the right shoulder and their car overturned, blocking the right and center lanes, authorities said. A driver behind that car immediately hit their brakes and applied their hazard lights...
Woman arrested after visit to state prison
Coal Township, Pa. — A woman who was attempting to visit an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Coal Township was arrested after officers discovered she had drugs on her. Bahtia A. Greene, 31, of Philadelphia, went to visit an inmate on April 19 at SCI-Coal Township when a drug canine alerted staff to the possible presence of narcotics, according to Trp. Austin Bennett of state police at Stonington. Greene was signing in at the time. ...
18-year-old killed, 4 other teens wounded by gunfire over the weekend, in three separate incidents
Five teenagers have been shot in Philadelphia in three separate incidents so far this weekend. On a Kingsessing porch, three teens were gunned down, and a 22-year-old suffered a bullet wound to the leg. An 18-year-old, shot in the face, died.
5 men impersonating police officers charged in 2006 kidnapping, murder
Federal prosecutors charged five men this week accused of impersonating Philadelphia police officers in the 2006 kidnapping and killing of a 38-year-old man. The indictment filed in the U.S. District Court in Eastern Pennsylvania alleges the men — while posing as police officers using fake badges, police lights, and firearms — kidnapped Shamari Taylor and his then-21-year-old girlfriend from West Philadelphia to rob him of cocaine and drug money. Kevin Holloway, 45; Mark Scott, 48; Linton Mathis, 50; Atiba Wicker, 47; and Kenneth Tuck, 51, were charged in federal court with conspiracy to commit kidnapping resulting in death, kidnapping resulting in death,...
PD: Coroner responds to serious 3-vehicle crash in West Chester
WEST CHESTER (WXIX) - A serious three-vehicle crash with unknown injuries has shut down a main road in West Chester Sunday. A spokesperson from West Chester Police said that officers and medics responded to Cox Road between University Pointe and Service Drive shortly before 6:15 p.m. Cox Road is closed...
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