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…
Friday, April 5, 2013
Harley Duval, 19, of the 1300 block of Needham Circle, allegedly sold nine bags of heroin to an undercover Lansdale Borough drug task force officer. He is charged with five felonies and nine misdemeanors.
A Hatfield teenager who allegedly sold nine bags of heroin to an undercover Lansdale Borough drug task force officer has been arrested and charged with heroin sales in the borough. Harley Duval, 19, of the 1300 block of Needham Circle, has been charged with three felony counts of possession with intent to deliver heroin, two felony counts of criminal use of a phone, three misdemeanor counts of possession of heroin, three misdemeanor counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and three misdemeanor counts of receipt in commerce, according to court records. In February 2013, Lansdale Police officers of the Montgomery County District Attorney Drug Task Force, received informaiton that Duval was involved in the alleged sale of heroin, police …
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. …
Friday, March 1, 2013
Mark William Gross Jr., 21, of the 1000 block of Stoneham Circle, Hatfield, taunted police on the Montgomeryville-Lansdale Patch Facebook page, during the period of time when a warrant was out for his arrest.
Update, Friday, March 8 The preliminary hearing for Gross was continued Friday to Thursday, March 14 at 11:30 a.m. at Lansdale district court. Earlier Story A Hatfield man wanted on a felony drug warrant, and who taunted authorities on Montgomeryville-Lansdale Patch's Facebook page by commenting “im not turnin my self .... run run as fast as u can u cant catch me im da ginger bread man ...... sincierly da gingerbread man,” has been caught by Lansdale Police. Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman and Lansdale Police Chief Robert McDyre announced Thursday the arrest of Mark William Gross Jr., 21, of the 1000 block Stoneham Circle in Hatfield Township. The Lansdale Police Department was seeking the public's help in locating …
Monday, February 25, 2013
Leon Erwin Nazian, 58, of the 300 block of Chelsea Road, Fairless Hills, and employee of Lansdale Meats and Deli, allegedly sold an ounce of marijuana to an undercover cop in Lansdale in the parking lot of Mater Dei Catholic School.
A Bucks County man has been arrested and charged with selling a total of three ounces of marijuana to an undercover Lansdale cop in the parking lot of Mater Dei Catholic School on three occasions. Leon Erwin Nazian, 58, of the 300 block of Chelsea Road, is also an employee at Lansdale Meats and Deli on Broad Street in Hatfield Township, police said. Nazian is charged with three felony counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, two felony counts of criminal use of a cell phone, three misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance, three misdemeanor counts of possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia and three misdemeanor counts of receipt in commerce of a controlled substance, according to …
Michael Anthony Creciun, 21, of Lansdale, and his cousin, Gene "Ray" Kulp, 18, admitted their involvement in the Jan. 21 robbery, police said. Stolen items were found in a search of their Edgemont Avenue home, police said
One of two cousins agreed to a stipulated preliminary hearing in Lansdale District Court last week, and now heads to Montgomery County court for trial on felony armed robbery and felony aggravated assault charges, to name a few, in connection with his alleged involvement in the assault and robbery of a Lansdale business Jan. 21. Michael Anthony Creciun, 21, of the 500 block of Edgemont Avenue, allegedly participated in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day robbery of Hen's Coins and Collectables on West Main Street in Lansdale. Creciun's younger cousin, Gene “Ray” Kulp, 18, of the same address, was also arrested and charged in the robbery and assault. A third man, Anthony Hughes, 25, of West Third Street, Lansdale, was also arrested and charged …
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Warren Pennick, 54, is accused of pushing his 74-year-old mother, Lorraine Pennick, down the basement stairs and cutting her throat on Halloween in their Salford Avenue home. Pennick is competent to stand trial, the Commonwealth said
Warren Pennick, 54, of 635 Salford Avenue, Lansdale, the man accused by police of murdering his mother on Halloween, had charges of felony first- and third-degree murder held for March arraignment in Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas at a Skippack preliminary hearing Wednesday morning. Pennick allegedly pushed his mother, Lorraine Pennick, 74, down their basement stairs and then slit her throat, for fear of her becoming "homeless" due to their inability to pay for repairs for the home, police said. According to his attorney, Pennick has suffered with mental illnesses for 45 years, specifically paranoid schizophrenia. Clad in a red jumpsuit and donning a long, bushy white beard, Pennick shuffled into the courtroom of Judge Albert …
Monday, February 11, 2013
Upper Gwynedd Township Police said Daniel J. Costello, of West Mount Vernon Street, allegedly brandished a handgun while at the pick-up window at S. Broad Street and White's Road
Upper Gwynedd Township Police have arrested a Lansdale man for allegedly brandishing a firearm in the drive-thru of Wendy's at South Broad Street and White's Road. Daniel J. Costello, 22, of West Mount Vernon Street, was charged Sunday with felony carrying a firearm without a license, misdemeanor terroristic threats that caused a serious public inconvenience and disorderly conduct, according to court records. Costello was arraigned before District Judge Deborah Lukens, who set bail at $5,000 cash, according to court records. Costello was remanded to Montgomery County prison in lieu of bail. A preliminary hearing is set for Feb. 20 at 11 a.m. before District Judge Robert Sobeck in Blue Bell. Police said Costello allegedly displayed a …
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Paul Michael Gensert, 33, of the 300 block of Acorn Street, was arrested Feb. 1.
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