CRIME & SAFETY
Chester County 2 alarm fire
Firefighters from New Castle County responded on a second alarm to assist Chester County firefighters in battling a blaze in a row of townhomes on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. The fire broke out in the 500 block of Buena Vista Drive in Kennett Square shortly after 5 p.m. Flames spread...
5-year-old boy drowns in neighbor's pond in Chester County
A 5-year-old boy drowned in a pond Monday after wandering from his home in Kennett Township, police said. Authorities were called to the 600 block of Chandler Mill Road to search for the missing boy, who had autism, around 2:45 p.m. when his family said they couldn't find him. After...
Oxford School Shooter Transferred to Oaks Correctional to Begin Life Sentence
The convict behind the Oxford High School massacre has been relocated to a state prison in Michigan to serve his life sentence. Ethan Crumbley, now 18, was sentenced last December to life without parole following a 2021 school shooting that left four students dead and several others wounded, as ClickOnDetroit reported.
Woman Shot At Chesco Driver In Road Rage Incident, DA Says
Racquel Graham, 41, is charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, and related charges, the Chester County District Attorney's Office said in a release. Authorities said it happened around 6 a.m. near the corner of Goshen and Sugartown roads in Willistown. The victim said he passed a slow-moving Toyota Rav 4...
Gunfire In Chester County Home Leads To Police Standoff, Arrest: DA
Daniel Montalto, 52, is charged with aggravated assault and related offenses, prosecutors said in a release. Spring City police said they were called to Montalto's home for a reported domestic incident and found a "victim with obvious physical injuries." They tried to go inside but were stopped by a family...
8-Year-Old Pedestrian Seriously Hurt In Chester County Crash: Troopers
Troopers said the victim was struck near 251 Conner Road around 7 a.m. and seriously injured. Investigators believe the unnamed 20-year-old driver was under the influence of drugs, according to the police report. He was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Matthew Seavey and taken to the Chester County Prison, authorities said.
One dead in rush hour wreck in Newark
The Delaware State Police Collision Reconstruction Unit is investigating a fatal accident Wednesday morning, May 1, 2024, on Capitol Trail (Route 2) near Newark. According to troopers, the crash happened around 7:30 a.m. when a car driven by a 61-year old Newark man pulled out from a development at Brewster Drive on a green light, and was broadsided on the driver's side door by an SUV that ran the red light.
Court documents reveal new details about arrests of two farmers in Lancaster and York Counties
PENNSYLVANIA, USA — It's been three weeks since two central Pennsylvania men were arrested and taken to prison. Ethan Wentworth of Airville, York County and Rusty Herr of Christiana, Lancaster County have sat in their respective county prisons since April 10 and 11. Herr and Wentworth run NoBull Solutions,...
Jury reaches verdict in 2nd trial on violent hammer attack during Wilmington jewelry heist
A New Castle County jury on Thursday found a man guilty of assaulting a store owner with a hammer during a 2022 jewelry heist in Wilmington. A jury found Calvin Ushery, 40, guilty of assault, robbery and a weapons charge after about two hours of deliberation. The violent nature of the robbery drew national attention after surveillance video from inside the store was circulated by the defendant’s family shortly after the heist.
Deadly Delco crash raises questions on the Pa. State Police chase policy
It’s been more than a week since three adults and a pregnant teenager died after a high-speed police chase ended in a crash in Delaware County. On Wednesday, April 24, around 1:30 p.m., a red Taurus crashed into a concrete bridge embankment on Rt. 322 in Upper Chichester, Pennsylvania. Four of the seven people in the vehicle – Isaiah Miller, 20, Ikeam Rogers, 20, Kalyn Billups, 21, and Tyjana Motley, 17, -- died in the crash. Motley’s unborn child was also pronounced dead at the hospital.
Crews put out ‘rough fire’ at historical home in Berwyn
BERWYN, Pa. - Fire crews worked to put out a fire that occurred in a historic home in Chester County Wednesday evening. The home that is listed online has an estimated value between $1.2 million and 1.4 million. It’s located on a busy corner in Berwyn at Sugartown and Leopard Roads.
Police raid near North East nets drugs, loaded handgun, one arrest
NORTH EAST — A man remained jailed on Tuesday after investigators confiscated more than one ounce of suspect heroin mixed fentanyl, a loaded handgun and other drug-related evidence while raiding his residence near North East and searching his vehicle, according to the Cecil County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators identified the suspect as 28-year-old Zachary Paul Rhoades, whom investigators arrested on Thursday after conducting a court-approved search of his residence in the unit block of West Clairborne Road, police reported. ...
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