Monday, April 8, 2013
Public Works Committee Chairman Steve Malagari updated council on the progress with the PCTI project that looks to create a straight shot from Broad to Main by bypassing the SEPTA tracks.
A transportation improvement project in downtown Lansdale could begin as early as the week of April 17. The Wood-Vine Connector—funded by a grant from the Pennsylvania Community Transportation Initiative program—looks to bypass the SEPTA tracks at Broad and Main streets in Lansdale by giving commuters a stop-sign-free and traffic-light-free thoroughfare from Broad and Vine streets to Wood and Main streets. The project requires reconfiguring Derstine Avenue and Susquehanna Avenue into a more straight path. Property will be taken at the Lansdale Library and its entrance/exit will be moved. A traffic light existing at Susquehanna Avenue and West Main Street will be moved to Wood Street. Susquehanna Avenue would then be right-turn only onto …
Friday, November 16, 2012
Bennie Rockeem Hall, 26, of Weikel Road, admitted to felony criminal trespass this week. He avoided jail time, sentenced to five years' probation and community service and ordered to pay $200 in fines
A Towamencin men who broke into a home on Derstine Avenue in June — and then jumped from the second-floor roof, suffering leg injuries — has admitted to his crime in a guilty plea in Montgomery County Court, and avoided jail time. Bennie Rockeem Hall, 26, of Weikel Road, pleaded guilty to felony criminal trespass this week, according to WNPV. He avoided prosecution on a felony burglary charge and a felony attempt charge, according to WNPV. Hall must serve five years’ probation, plus 24 hours of community service. He must also pay a $200 fine, according to WNPV. Hall broke into a home on the 800 block of Derstine Avenue on June 8, 2012. He filled a duffel bag of items, before escaping onto the second-floor roof when police announced their …
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
John Nicholas Gallagher, 45, of Derstine Avenue, was busted after defendants in a prostitution bust in Lansdale told police they allegedly bought their heroin from him
A resident of Derstine Avenue in Lansdale is heading to Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas on heroin possession and distribution charges following the waiver of a preliminary hearing Tuesday morning at Lansdale district court. John Nicholas Gallagher, 45, is charged with felony manufacture, deliver and possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver; misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance; and misdemeanor possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia, according to court documents. Lansdale Police were led to Gallagher after two defendants in a June 2012 undercover prostitution bust told police they allegedly bought their heroin from Gallagher, according to an affidavit of probable cause. During the bust of …
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Pennoni Associates gave an update last week to Lansdale Borough Council on the traffic improvement project that looks to provide an alternate and faster route of traffic between Broad Street and Main Street
Imagine turning onto Vine Street from Broad Street in Lansdale Borough and cruising all the way through, non-stop, down a reconfigured Derstine Avenue and Susquehanna Avenue to a new traffic light at Wood and Main streets. The same goes for turning onto Wood Street from Main Street - the intersection where Molly Maguire's, National Auto Store and Philly Soft Pretzel Factory exists - and cruising at a cool 20 mph, without stopping, to Broad Street. By doing this, you circumvent and avoid the intersection at Broad and Main, as well as the SEPTA train crossings. By Spring 2013, construction will be underway on the new $3.5-million Vine-Wood Connector Project, formerly known as the Pennsylvania Community Transportation Initiative Project. The…
Monday, July 23, 2012
Bennie Rockeem Hall, 25, of Weikel Road, Towamencin, was found inside a home on Derstine Avenue in June, according to police. He was hospitalized after he was injured jumping off the roof, police said
A Towamencin man who police said was injured when he jumped off a roof of a Derstine Avenue home he allegedly burglarized waived all six charges against him at a preliminary hearing in Lansdale on Monday - including felony burglary and felony criminal trespassing - to Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas. Bennie Rockeem Hall, 25, of Weikel Road in Towamencin, will face the following charges at his county arraignment: According to the inmate database search of Montgomery County Correctional Facility, Hall was committed in lieu of $10,000 cash bail. Bond was posted on July 16. Hall previously pleaded guilty to a 2009 retail theft in Lansdale in January 2010, according to court records. On June 8, at around 2:37 a.m., Lansdale Police …
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
John Nicholas Gallagher, 45, of Derstine Avenue, was busted following a prostitution sting earlier this month in Lansdale
Lansdale Police said an alleged prostitution sting led to the arrest of a suspected heroin dealer in the borough. John Nicholas Gallagher, 45, of the 500 block of Derstine Avenue, Lansdale, was arrested June 22 at his home after a search warrant was served and heroin was found in his home, police said. Gallagher's arrest was the result of a narcotics investigation that began with the arrest of two alleged prostitutes on West Main Street in Lansdale earlier this month. Gallagher is charged with felony manufacture, deliver and possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver; misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance; misdemeanor possession of a counterfeit substance and misdemeanor possession with intent to use drug …
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Bennie Rockeem Hall, 25, of Weikel Road, Towamencin, was found inside a home on Derstine Avenue, police said
A Towamencin man who police allege was trapped inside a home he burglarized on Derstine Avenue in Lansdale was injured after jumping off a roof while escaping from police. He remains hospitalized at Abington Memorial Hospital and an arrest warrant has been issued, police said. Bennie Rockeem Hall, 25, of the 700 block of Weikel Road, Towamencin, is awaiting arrest and arraignment on the following charges: Hall previously pleaded guilty to a 2009 retail theft in Lansdale in January 2010, according to court records. On June 8, at around 2:37 a.m., Lansdale Police responded to a home on the 800 block of Derstine Avenue after a homeowner reported that someone was inside their home, police said. Police met with the homeowner who said the …
its me
6:26 pm on Friday, November 16, 2012
def deserves jail time more ›