Students told faculty they had seen an armed man in a ski mask.
A man who was out jogging is believed to have been the cause of a lockdown at West Broad Street Elementary School in Franconia on Thursday afternoon, police said. The school was placed on lockdown at about 1:40 p.m. after three fourth-grade students on the school's playground reported seeing a man in a black sweater and black-hooded mask with a gun along a nearby tree line. Franconia Township Police Chief Joseph Kozeniewski said authorities were "confident" that the children had mistaken the unidentified jogger for the armed person. "We are not sure where [the children] came up with the idea of a man carrying a gun," Kozeniewski said. The neighborhoods and streets adjacent to the 530 student, K-5 school were cordoned off as North Penn …
Valley Stream Apartment man now in custody after stand-off with tactical response team.
The following story is exclusive to Lansdale Patch. UPDATE 7:45 p.m. Detective Sergeant John Ciarlello of Hatfield Township Police said Hatfield Township Police responded to a call of an armed subject threatening suicide at 2:56 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16. Hatfield Township officers made contact with the subject and confirmed he was armed with a handgun, Ciarlello said. The subject was directed to exit and surrender to police, but he refused. Ciarlello said when the subject refused to surrender, the North Penn Tactical Response Team was activated and responded to the scene. A command center was set up at the former J.L. Freed location at Broad Street and Cowpath Road. Neighbors were evacuated from their apartments while police continued …
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worldpeace2013
11:31 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013
really?? who goes jogging and then just leaves his sweatshirt outside like that??? what a tool more ›