Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Justin Murphy, 19, of S. Chestnut Street, is charged with a misdemeanor and two summary offenses for allegedly leaving the scene of a hit-and-run at Main and Broad streets in Lansdale April 15 in a VW Cabriolet.
Lansdale Police believe the driver of a black VW Cabriolet that allegedly hit a vehicle at Main and Broad streets April 15 is Justin Murphy, 19, of the 100 block of South Chestnut Street, Ambler Borough. Murphy has been arrested, charged and arraigned with misdemeanor accidents involving an occupied vehicle, and summary charges of careless driving and driving the wrong way on a one-way road, according to court records. Murphy has a preliminary hearing before District Judge Harold Borek in Lansdale on August 15. Police said they received information the day after the hit-and-run from an Ambler Borough Police officer that he or she recognized the black VW Cabriolet suspect vehicle after seeing a picture of it in the press. Lansdale Police …
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Sean Rahatt, 41, is facing more than 100 felony and misdemeanor charges for what police say was the repeated sexual assault of young children in Lansdale, Norristown and Collegeville.
A Norristown man is being held in county prison on $99,000 bail after being arrested and charged with the repeated sexual assault of multiple young victims in Lansdale, Norristown and Collegeville. According to an affidavit of probable cause, 41-year-old Sean Rahatt allegedly sexually assaulted the juveniles, who were under the age of 13, on multiple occasions over a 12-year period. The incidents are said to have occurred in Norristown, Collegeville and Lansdale over that time period. According to the affidavit, Rahatt allegedly told a witness that he had been abused prior and was "reenacting his past." He also reportedly attempted to justify his actions by putting them in historical context, saying similar activity occurred in Roman times…
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Richard Lee Stroud, 20, of Philadelphia, allegedly conspired with Jeremiah White of Pottstown and Sarah Nodecker of Montgomery Township to rob a man who met the trio for a test drive of a car Feb. 24.
The Philadelphia man wanted by Hatfield Township Police for his alleged involvement in the Tasering and robbery of a man inside a vehicle on Feb. 24 turned himself into police Wednesday. Richard Lee Stroud, 20, of a third floor apartment on the 600 block of North 43rd Street, faces charges of felony robbery with immediate serious bodily injury, felony robbery with taking property by force, simple assault, reckless endangerment, harassment, felony theft, felony receiving stolen property, felony criminal use of a cell phone, possessing an instrument of crime, and felony use or possession of an electric or electronic incapacitation device, police said. Stroud also faces felony criminal conspiracy charges on all those offenses, police said. …
Michael Naudasher, 28, of West Third Street, was pulled over for allegedly speeding on DeKalb Pike early Sunday morning.
A Lansdale man was pulled over for suspected DUI Sunday morning in Whitpain Township, according to police. Police said Michael Naudasher, 28, of the 800 block of West Third Street, was allegedly speeding in a black Honda north on DeKalb Pike at 2:01 a.m. The car was stopped and police spoke to Naudasher, who had the odor of alcohol on his breath, police said. Naudasher was taken to Mercy Suburban Hospital for a blood test to determine BAC, police said. Charges of DUI and other traffic offenses are pending blood results, police said.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Teen was one of three that allegedly beat and shocked a man while taking a 'test drive' in Hatfield. Sarah Nodecker was also arrested and a third man is at large
Patch readers might recognize the face of Pottstown resident Jeremiah White. You should. He was just donning our web pages barely a month ago when his Popeye's receipt and cell phone got him busted for a car theft, according to police reports. This time, he allegedly had company. According to a release from the Hatfield Police, officers responded to a call on Sunday night at 5:51 p.m. in the area of Bethlehem Pike and Trewigtown Road. There they met with a victim of a robbery who had called them when his attempt to sell a used car failed. The victim told police he met three individuals in the area, in an attempt to sell them his car. When he gave the three a test drive, he was "suddenly shocked with a stun gun-type weapon and punched …
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Paul Michael Gensert, 33, of the 300 block of Acorn Street, was arrested Feb. 1.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Paul Michael Gensert, 33, of the 300 block of Acorn Street, was arrested Feb. 1.
Shyeed Shaqu Tournkara aka 'Peanut', 20, of the 200 block of Cricklewood Circle, Montgomery Township, was arrested Feb. 1 on alleged marijuana dealing charges after a third undercover buy, police said
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Paul Michael Gensert, 33, of the 300 block of Acorn Street, was arrested Feb. 1.
A Lansdale man convicted in 2010 of drug dealing was arrested by Lansdale Police on Feb. 1 for allegedly selling heroin in the borough, following a six-month investigation by the Lansdale Police Street Crimes Unit. Paul Michael Gensert, 33, of the 300 block of Acorn Street, was charged with felony possession with intent to distribute, two misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance, two misdemeanor counts of possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia and misdemeanor receipt/purchase of a controlled substance, police said. Gensert was arraigned before District Judge Thomas Palladino of Pottstown, who set bail at $25,000 cash, according to court documents. Gensert was unable to post bail and remains incarcerated at …
Jeremiah White, 19, of the 400 block of North Charlotte Street, allegedly stole a Ford Expedition on Jan. 5 from Norristown, and later crashed it in a Hatfield Township accident, police said.
Jeremiah White's stomach allegedly got him in trouble with the law — and he is now headed to county trial on, among other offenses, a felony receiving stolen property charge. White, 19, of the 400 block of North Charlotte Street, Pottstown, waived charges of felony receiving stolen property, misdemeanor accidents involving damage to another vehicle, failing to stop and render aid and following a vehicle too closely Tuesday at Montgomery Township district court, according to The Reporter. White is free on $10,000 unsecured bail, which District Judge Andrea Duffy granted at his preliminary hearing, according to court records. Assistant District Attorney Laura Adshead told The Reporter that the bail reduction was requested and granted due to …
Bob Slydell
2:55 pm on Monday, May 6, 2013
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