Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Hilltown Township Police and Bucks County District Attorney's Office will ask the public's help for information developed during the murder investigation in January
Hilltown Township Police and the Bucks County District Attorney's Office are seeking the public's assistance for information on the murder of Joseph Canazaro on January 18 in Hilltown. Hilltown Township Police Chief Christopher Englehart and District Attorney David Heckler will hold a press conference at noon at the Hilltown Township Police Building to "ask the public’s assistance for information developed during the investigation" of the home invasion and murder of Canazaro, according to a press release. Canazaro, 48, was killed in his home at 321 Swartley Road on the morning of Jan. 18, where he resided with his girlfriend and two children. Canazaro was the co-owner of Finn McCool's Tavern in Ambler Borough. The suspects were described …
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Chris Palmer of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Canazaro owed more than $10 million to various casinos, banks and the government
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Tuesday, January 22
Chris Palmer of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Hilltown robbery and home invasion murder victim Joseph Canazaro was $10 million in debt to casinos, banks and the government. Bankruptcy documents from 2008 showed Canazaro owed hundreds of thousands of dollars to casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Biloxi, MS, according to the article. A matter was settled in bankruptcy court where Canazaro cashed $210,000 in faulty checks with two check-cashing agencies, Palmer reports. Locally, Canazaro owed taxes to Hatfield Township and New Britain Township. Hilltown Township Police and the Bucks County District Attorney believe Canazaro’s Swartley Road home, which he rented, was targeted for robbery by two men who are still wanted by …
Friday, January 18, 2013
Joseph Canazaro co-owned Finn McCool's in Ambler. Suspects believed to have fled in victims' pickup truck; described as armed and dangerous
Update, 5:03 p.m. The last murder that occurred in Hilltown Township was in 1990 at 12 Key Drive, when Eric Motis stabbed his neighbor Louise C. Hoopes, 42, a secretary at Grand View Hospital, and her sons Douglas, 16, and Daniel, 14, in their beds. Motis, 26, committed suicide in prison in 1998. Motis was facing three life sentences after pleading guilty at trial in 1991. Update, 4:23 p.m. The Reporter reports the black pickup truck has been located in Upper Bucks County. The truck has been located behind Quakertown Plaza Shopping Center on the 1400 block of West Broad Street in Quakertown. Update, 4:14 p.m. Chief Chris Engelhart has identified the victim as Joseph Canazaro, 48. Canazaro lived at the Swartley Road home with his girlfriend…
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Salvatore Rocco Jr., 22, and Anthony Thompson, 22, head to county arraignment for their alleged participation in home invasions that occurred on Willow Street in Lansdale. Zakarias Hailemicael, of Blue Bell, remains at large
A Lansdale man and an Ambler man, charged in two armed home invasions that occurred on the 700 block of Willow Street in October 2012 in Lansdale, waived all charges to county arraignment at their preliminary hearings Thursday afternoon. Salvatore Joseph Rocco Jr., 22, of the 400 block of Church Road, Lansdale, and Anthony Thompson, 22, of the 400 block of Railroad Avenue, Ambler, face the following offenses at their formal arraignments Feb. 13 at Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas: A third suspect, Zakarias Hailemicael, 22, whose last known address was the 2400 block of Whitpain Hills Drive in Blue Bell, remains at large, police said. Police Investigator Chad Bruckner said police have received new information on Hailemicael. …
Monday, October 22, 2012
Lansdale Police said a two black males entered a home by prying open a door with a crowbar. The incident matches the same M.O. as a Monday morning home invasion on the same street
Lansdale Police are investigating a reported home invasion and robbery that occurred Friday morning on Willow Street in Lansdale, where two black males entered a home and asked questions about another man. Police said it was a targeted incident and not a random home invasion. Read about a similar home invasion on the same street that occurred Monday at this link. Police responded to the 700 block of Willow Street at around 10:15 a.m. Friday for a report of a home invasion and robbery. A 23-year-old man was sleeping at his home, when he heard someone prying open his exterior door with a crowbar, police said. Two black males entered the home and displayed a gun, police said. The suspects asked the man questions about another man whom the …
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Montgomery Township home believed to have been targeted. The sole occupant of the home was asleep at the time and was later restrained and assaulted
A Montgomery Township resident was assaulted in their Steeplechase Drive home Friday morning by three black males who confronted them and forced them to assist in the robbery of their own home, Montgomery Township Police said Friday afternoon. Police were called to the home at about 6:27 a.m. The unidentified victim, who was asleep in an upstairs bedroom when the home invasion began, was the sole occupant of the house at the time. The victim was led around the residence for the purpose of retrieving money and valuables, police said. During the home invasion, the victim was restrained and assaulted, police said. The incident occurred barely half a mile from the headquarters of the Montgomery Township Police Department at the intersection …
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Upper Gwynedd Township Police said the suspect kicked in the door of a home on West Point Pike Monday morning and fled out the rear door after the resident grabbed a knife
He eluded police, but they need your help in finding the suspect. Upper Gwynedd Township Police have released a sketch of the suspect involved in the home invasion Monday morning in West Point. The suspect is described as a black male, 6 feet tall, medium build, with a dark black or blue shirt and dark blue jean, police said. The suspect was also wearing a black-colored stocking over his head. Police said he appeared to be wearing gloves with fingertips exposed. There were no weapons displayed or insinuated, police said. Police said the woman who was home during the home invasion struggled with the suspect in the kitchen and she was able to grab a knife. The suspect then fled out the back door. Police searched the area around the train …
Monday, May 21, 2012
Female resident said to be "okay" after physical struggle with black male suspect
Update, 4:23 p.m. Monday, May 21: Chief David Duffy said they have not found a suspect. He said the investigation is still active. Earlier Story Below Upper Gwynedd Township Police are looking for a man who kicked in the front door of an occupied West Point residence at about 11:15 a.m. Monday in an attempt to burglarize the home. Upper Gwynedd Township Police Chief David Duffy said the resident struggled with the suspect inside the home, "particularly in the kitchen area," and was eventually able to grab a knife, at which point the suspect fled the residence through a rear door. A K9 unit from Whitemarsh Township was still assisting Upper Gwynedd police in a search for the suspect early Monday afternoon. Whitpain Township and Towamencin …
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Homeowner confronted an Asian male with a knife in their home at 5 a.m. Monday
Police said a homeowner confronted an intruder with a knife in their home on the unit block of Meadow Lane in Hatfield Township at 5:10 a.m. Monday. The resident was awakened by the family dog barking, police said, and upon checking the home, the resident found an intruder armed with a dull-colored six-inch knife. The resident went to the bedroom and dialed 9-1-1 for help, police said. The intruder left the home prior to police arrival, police said. No one was injured and nothing was taken, police said. The intruder is described as an Asian male, in his early- to mid-20s, 5 feet 5 inches tall to 5 feet 6 inches tall, wearing a faded black-hooded sweatshirt, with a faded design on the front, police said. His face was covered by a gray scarf…
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Report: Homeowner shot at two suspects
A house in the Belfry section of Whitpain Township was the scene of a home invasion in the early overnight hours of Saturday morning. Police were looking for two black males wearing dark clothing who broke into a home at about 1 a.m. on the 700 block of Danbury Drive. Breaking News Network, a service that monitors police radio reports, reported that the homeowner had fired a gun at the intruders and may have struck at least one of them. Police declined to confirm that the homeowner had shot at the intruders. "They were scared off by the homeowner," said Sergeant Joseph Fenerty of the Whitpain Township Police department, who said that the suspects had fled the scene. "We're checking hospitals now," Fenerty said. "They're considered …
John W.
5:23 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
I entertain my clients at Finn's McCool regularly and thought the owner was doing fine. If it is true that Joe owed so much to SOMEBODY, we all know the answer now. Organized crime should be viewed differently. General public should worry about random petty crime rate in the community. more ›