PA Mom Accused Of Cyber Harassing Girls On Daughter's Squad Ordered To Stand Trial PA Mom Accused Of Cyber Harassing Girls On Daughter's Squad Ordered To Stand Trial
PA Mom Accused Of Cyber Harassing Girls On Daughter's Squad Ordered To Stand Trial A Pennsylvania mom has been ordered to face trial for harassing three girls on her daughter's cheerleading squad, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office announced Friday. Raffaela Spone, 50, of Chalfont, last March was charged with three counts each of cyber harassment of a child and harassment. Following a preliminary hearing on Friday, Magisterial District Judge Regina Armitage found enough evidence presented to send all charges to the Court of Common Pleas, District Attorney Matt Weintraub's Office said. Spone was accused of manipulating a photograph of a teen girl on the Vict…
DA: Bucks Teen Gets Off With Sensitivity Training After Making Racist Threats On Social Media DA: Bucks Teen Gets Off With Sensitivity Training After Making Racist Threats On Social Media
DA: Bucks Teen Gets Off With Sensitivity Training After Making Racist Threats On Social Media A 19-year-old Chalfont man who reportedly made racist and threatening comments on a social media video posted in July was ordered to undergo racial sensitivity training, authorities announced. Andrew J. Smith pleaded guilty Wednesday to harassment and was also sentenced by Common Pleas Judge Diane E. Gibbons to a year of probation, mental health assessments, and continued racial sensitivity training at The Peace Center in Langhorne and at Good Shepard Mediation in Philadelphia, according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. The racial sensitivity training was an arrange…
DA: $120K Worth Of Fentanyl Found In Bristol Man's Home DA: $120K Worth Of Fentanyl Found In Bristol Man's Home
DA: $120K Worth Of Fentanyl Found In Bristol Man's Home A 29-year-old Bristol Township man was arrested after a multi-agency search turned up more than $120,000 worth of fentanyl in his home Tuesday, authorities said. Authorities served a search warrant at 724 Hidden Forest Court in Bristol Township, which is also the home of Lawrence W. Priester, according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. There, four sandwich bags containing suspected drugs were found inside a black “Thank You” bag in a living room closet.  The substance tested positive for fentanyl and confirmed that the drugs weighed two pounds, which is valued at $120,00…
DA: Bristol Duo In Custody After Shooting Group Including 4-Year-Old Girl DA: Bristol Duo In Custody After Shooting Group Including 4-Year-Old Girl
DA: Bristol Duo In Custody After Shooting Group Including 4-Year-Old Girl A Bristol duo is in custody for their alleged involvement in a shooting that bypassed a group of people, including a 4-year-old child, in 2019, authorities said. Sysco Schruby, 21, intended to shoot 28-year-old William Flemming, when he fired off several rounds at Flemming's 4-year-old child and three others who were congregated around an SUV on Nov. 22, 2019, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said. Schruby reportedly encountered Flemming at the Rodeway Inn on Green Lane in Bristol, and were engaged in conversation, the DA's office said. Surveillance video showed Schruby lea…
DA: Hilltown Man Who Pointed Gun At Woman In Walmart Facing Up To 4 Years In Prison DA: Hilltown Man Who Pointed Gun At Woman In Walmart Facing Up To 4 Years In Prison
DA: Hilltown Man Who Pointed Gun At Woman In Walmart Facing Up To 4 Years In Prison A 29-year-old Hilltown man was sentenced Friday to up to four years in state prison on several firearms violations in an investigation that began when he pointed a gun at a woman in the parking lot of a Walmart in Hilltown Township, authorities said. A woman told police she was with her 10-year-old daughter when she pulled into an open parking spot and noticed a man in a car next to hers cursing at her around 2:40 p.m. on Aug. 10, 2020, according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. When she and her daughter got out of the car, the man -- later identified as Willia…
DA: U.S. Marshals Capture Bensalem Man Out On Bail For 3rd Violent Attack Of Ex-GF DA: U.S. Marshals Capture Bensalem Man Out On Bail For 3rd Violent Attack Of Ex-GF
DA: U.S. Marshals Capture Bensalem Man Out On Bail For 3rd Violent Attack Of Ex-GF A Bensalem man who was out on bail for two domestic violence attacks despite objections from the Bucks County District Attorney's Office is facing new charges after violently attacked the same victim again, authorities said. Patrick Dando, 35, was captured by the U.S. Marshals after pushing his ex-girlfriend down a flight of concrete steps and strangling her until she blacked out last Friday afternoon, District Attorney Matt Weintraub said. Dando, who had been on the run since the attack, was charged with felony counts of aggravated assault and strangulation, along with misdemeanor counts o…
Bucks County School Bus Driver Admits Sexually Assaulting Teen Boys, 1 His Own Foster Child Bucks County School Bus Driver Admits Sexually Assaulting Teen Boys, 1 His Own Foster Child
Bucks County School Bus Driver Admits Sexually Assaulting Teen Boys, 1 His Own Foster Child A former Bucks County school bus driver on Tuesday admitted to sexually assaulting a pair of teen boys -- one a foster child in his care, authorities said. John Michael Evans, 40, of Tullytown, abused the boys separately and repeatedly between January 2017 and June 2020, when the more recent victim reported the abuse to local police, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office announced. Evans began abusing a foster child in April 2020 shortly after the boy, then 16, was placed in his care, Deputy District Attorney Mary Kate Kohler said  in court Tuesday.  The abuse happened…
PA Wedding DJ Jailed For Sexually Assaulting 6 Boys Busted With Child Porn, Authorities Say PA Wedding DJ Jailed For Sexually Assaulting 6 Boys Busted With Child Porn, Authorities Say
PA Wedding DJ Jailed For Sexually Assaulting 6 Boys Busted With Child Porn, Authorities Say A Bucks County wedding DJ who is currently facing trial for sexually assaulting six boys between 1993 and 2010 is facing yet another charge: This one, child pornography, authorities said Tuesday. Louis Charles Aiello, 58, of Penndel Borough, has been in the Bucks County Correctional Facility since he was charged with sexually assaulting a boy on June 16. He was charged Monday with two counts of possession of child pornography, after detectives executing a search warrant at Aiello's Rumpf Avenue home turned up a Dell laptop with a 4 GB thumb drive containing 14 graph…
Obsessed Patient Beat Bensalem Chiropractor To Death, DA Says Obsessed Patient Beat Bensalem Chiropractor To Death, DA Says
Obsessed Patient Beat Bensalem Chiropractor To Death, DA Says A 22-year-old Bucks County man was charged with killing his chiropractor whom prosecutors say he became obsessed with while seeking treatment for jaw pain. Joseph O'Boyle, of Bensalem, beat 64-year-old Dr. James Sowa to death in his Hulmeville Road home office on Nov. 2, 2020, Bucks County, District Attorney Matt Weintraub said Friday. O'Boyle was remanded to the Bucks County jail on Nov. 10, when he assaulted a police officer at his home as part of the homicide investigation, Weintraub said. O'Boyle was being jailed on charges of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment when he w…
Police ID Bucks Driver Shot, Killed Through Car Window Police ID Bucks Driver Shot, Killed Through Car Window
Police ID Bucks Driver Shot, Killed Through Car Window Authorities have identified the young man who was shot and killed while behind the wheel of a car last Wednesday night in Bucks County.  Bristol Township police responded to Edgely Road and Marion Avenue on reports of a shooting around 7:05 p.m. Dec. 23, Bucks County spokesperson Manuel Gamiz said. There, they found a Chrysler 200 stopped in the northbound lane of Edgely Road.  Shaquille Love, 21 of Bristol Township was still inside the car after having been shot through the driver's side window, local authorities said in a press release. An autopsy determined Love died of a single gunsho…
Police ID Bucks Driver Shot, Killed Through Car Window Police ID Bucks Driver Shot, Killed Through Car Window
Police ID Bucks Driver Shot, Killed Through Car Window Authorities have identified the young man who was shot and killed while behind the wheel of a car last Wednesday night in Bucks County.  Bristol Township police responded to Edgely Road and Marion Avenue on reports of a shooting around 7:05 p.m. Dec. 23, Bucks County spokesperson Manuel Gamiz said. There, they found a Chrysler 200 stopped in the northbound lane of Edgely Road.  Shaquille Love, 21 of Bristol Township was still inside the car after having been shot through the driver's side window, local authorities said in a press release. An autopsy determined Love died of a single gunsho…
18-Year-Old Killed, 3 Wounded In Bucks County, PA, Shooting 18-Year-Old Killed, 3 Wounded In Bucks County, PA, Shooting
18-Year-Old Killed, 3 Wounded In Bucks County, PA, Shooting A teenager from Pennsylvania was killed and three other juveniles were hurt during a shooting at an apartment complex in Bucks County, authorities said. Shots were fired at the Commons of Fallsington Apartments on Makefield Road on Tuesday night, according to Falls Township police.  An 18-year-old victim, who was not identified by police, was taken to Lower Bucks Hospital in Bristol with a gunshot wound to the chest where he was pronounced dead, police said. Three juveniles were taken to Jefferson Bucks Hospital in Langhorne with gunshot wounds and treated. Police said they think the…