2008-05-13 11:30:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
An alleged burglar was unable to find a successful hiding place when police entered the Donecker's business complex in Ephrata early today. Police found Alan Thomas Wells, 18, of the 300 block of Washington Avenue, Ephrata, hiding under a desk in a second-floor office, Ephrata police ......
2008-05-12 11:18:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
A robbery suspect bailed out of a fleeing car early today in Lancaster, but police caught the man who allegedly was driving the getaway vehicle. Police arrested Jorge Luis Delgado, 42, of 643 E. Chestnut St., who is being charged with criminal conspiracy to commit robbery, fleeing-eluding polic......
2008-05-09 11:51:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Lancaster state police today issued a call for citizen help in finding robbers who are preying on Plain-sect residents of the Gap-White Horse area. The victims have included a buggy driver, a man on a scooter and a female pedestrian, troopers said. The suspects in the two most recent in......
2008-05-06 11:19:00
STAFF
Two men who said they had a gun robbed a man riding a scooter this morning in rural Salisbury Township, according to state police and Lancaster Countywide Communications. The incident occurred in the 5500 block of Old Philadelphia Pike in the White Horse area, about three miles from the Chester......
2008-05-05 11:29:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Three robbery incidents on Lancaster streets, a brief vehicle pursuit in the city, and an assault at a Leola-area motel were among incidents that kept area police busy in recent days. Shortly before 12:30 a.m. Sunday, two men allegedly tried to rob a pizza deliveryman at gunpoint in the 200 blo......
2008-05-05 01:06:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A nationwide manhunt for an alleged cop killer brought FBI agents and a team of Philadelphia detectives to Lancaster city Sunday.The search for 33-year-old Eric Floyd — one of three suspects in the Saturday shooting death of a Philadelphia police sergeant — came up empty....
2008-05-02 01:19:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Three Lancaster County residents accused of kidnapping, robbing and severely beating a local man are bound for trial after each defendant waived a preliminary hearing Thursday.Attorneys for the defendants met with prosecutors at District Judge David Miller's office and decided there wa......
2008-04-26 02:00:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A Maryland teenager was sentenced Friday to 1½ to 5 years in state prison for his part in two armed robberies of horse-drawn buggies last year in southern Lancaster County.Christopher J. Lewis, 19, of Rising Sun, wielded a baseball bat while he and his cousin, Joseph Garvey, threate......
2008-04-21 11:24:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
"There are Hollywood movies like this," a Lancaster judge told the Pequea man standing before her today. "Except," Judge Margaret C. Miller told James Douglas Mowrer, "real people were frightened...real people were robbed" in the crimes he committed. Mowrer......
2008-04-16 01:24:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Thirteen days have passed since James "Jeff" Kerek was found slain on the living-room sofa of his Lancaster city home.With the city's first homicide of the year still unsolved and the killer or killers at large, investigators are looking into Kerek's final days for leads.......
2008-04-07 11:01:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
The robber apologized to his victims this morning in Lancaster County Court and quietly accepted the judge's sentence of 7 to 14 years in prison. William A. Stockbauer Jr. told the judge that he's sorry for what he did, but he is ready to get on with serving his sentence so that he c......
2008-04-01 01:28:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Convicted murderer Jacquin Carr apologized to his victim's family Monday, minutes before he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison."I have sympathy for your son," Carr told Shawn Hutchinson's family. "I didn't know him and didn't know this was ......
2008-03-20 12:39:00
STAFF
One of two young men who crawled through the doggie door of a Manheim Township home last year to rob and terrorized the occupants was sentenced this morning to 11 and a half to 23 years in state prison. Manuel Rafael Fisher, 18, of 615 Eagles View, cried as Lancaster County Judge Margaret C.......
2008-03-20 01:19:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A Lancaster County judge sentenced a "career criminal" Wednesday to 12 to 24 years in state prison for a pair of armed robberies he committed with a former girlfriend.Matthew R. Martin, 34, formerly of Lititz, was sentenced for robberies in 2005 at an East Earl Township convenien......
2008-03-14 01:49:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Manheim Township police on Thursday charged a third person in the kidnapping and beating of a Lancaster County man.Brett Michael Bair, 20, is accused of helping two teenagers kidnap Ben Jones from the parking lot of Overlook Roller Rink, Lititz Pike, early Feb. 24.The three beat Jon......
2008-03-13 02:21:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Two Lancaster city men were convicted of second-degree murder charges Wednesday for the 2006 shooting of 31-year-old Shawn "Reds" Hutchinson.Ernest "Butch" Rykard and Jacquin "Mike" Carr each face a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole after a j......
2008-03-12 01:42:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Testimony concluded in the joint homicide trial of two Lancaster city men after the accused gunman testified Tuesday in Lancaster County Court.Ernest "Butch" Rykard, 43, said he was in a "struggle for his life" with Shawn "Reds" Hutchinson before accidentally ......
2008-03-11 01:35:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Prosecutors rested their case Monday in the homicide trial of two Lancaster city men accused in the 2006 shooting of 31-year-old Shawn "Reds" Hutchinson.Hutchinson died the day after he was shot during an alleged robbery.Defense attorneys for Ernest "Butch" Rykar......
2008-03-07 11:14:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
A Columbia man pleaded guilty in court this morning to crawling through the doggie door of a suburban home last year, binding and robbing the family. Jorge Marin Chavez, 23, of 552 Walnut St., admitted his involvement in the crime, pleading guilty to robbery, conspiracy, burglary and three coun......
2008-03-07 02:15:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Accused killer Ernest "Butch" Rykard spoke with several people about shooting Shawn Hutchinson and "cried like a baby" when he learned Hutchinson had died, according to testimony Thursday in Lancaster County Court.Three women testified that Rykard repeatedly admitted to......
2008-03-07 02:06:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
The mystery of the automatic teller machine pilfered last month by thieves in a Bowmansville mini-mart smash-and-grab heist became slightly clearer Thursday.Lancaster Bureau of Police Thursday informed Kevin R. Mauk, the owner of Bowmansville Sunoco, that it recovered the stolen ATM and th......
2008-03-06 01:22:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Shawn "Red" Hutchinson was unarmed and hardly struggled when he was ambushed by two men outside his Lancaster city home, forced onto his stomach and shot in the back of the head, an alleged co-conspirator testified Wednesday.The two men who allegedly jumped Hutchinson — Ern......
2008-03-05 11:15:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
The caller to 911 dispatchers reported a shooting at Warwick High School on Tuesday evening, pleading with the operator to send help. He had been shot, he said. The first responding police officers from Lititz Borough rushed into the school, guns drawn. Police officers from Ephrata......
2008-03-04 01:48:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Three defendants tied to two different homicide cases in Lancaster County are expected to stand trial this week.Jury selection began in Lancaster County Court Monday in the trial of Jacquin Carr and Ernest Rykard, two Lancaster city men who are accused of the 2006 killing of 31-year-old Sh......
2008-02-28 01:21:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
Lancaster city police are on the lookout for a male in connection with a robbery and attempted sexual assault early Saturday morning.According to police, a female victim was about to cross the street in the 400 block of Harrisburg Avenue about 12:30 a.m. when the male suspect approached fr......
2008-02-27 02:07:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
Police are seeking two men who broke into a Bowmansville convenience store and left 36 seconds later early Tuesday with an automated teller machine that had been bolted to the floor.Surveillance cameras recorded the smash-and-grab heist in which an undisclosed amount of cash was taken from......
2008-02-26 00:49:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 29-year-old Ephrata man was sentenced Monday to 5 to 10 years in state prison for attempting to rob an elderly man last year in a bank parking lot.Jeremy E. Sawyer was found guilty in December of the April 2007 crime after a bench trial before Lancaster County Judge David L. Ashworth....
2008-02-25 00:09:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, staff writer
Police charged a pair of teenagers with kidnapping, robbing and severely beating a Lancaster man early Sunday morning in Manheim Township.Joshua Keziah, 19, of Brownstown, and Kayla Mace, 19, of Neffsville, have been charged with kidnapping the 24-year-old victim just after midnight....
2008-02-19 11:48:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
The burglar had an offer for the judge: show him mercy and he'll leave Pennsylvania. "That's all I ask," Joseph Delgado told Judge Joseph Madenspacher this morning in Lancaster County Court. "You won't see me again," Delgado said. "I just want to get aw......
2008-02-09 11:58:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
They've jumped over counters, screaming, yelling and threatening to blow heads off. They've grabbed tellers by their hair and clothes, shoving them and holding guns against their heads while helping themselves to cash. Teams of violent robbers holding up banks throughout central Pennsylvan......
2008-02-09 11:36:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
Police said a robber left behind a major clue to his identity when he held up a city store on Thursday: his wallet. Daniel Joseph Heil, 27, of 210 S. Prince St., was taken into custody Friday night, charged with robbery and committed to Lancaster County Prison in lieu of bail, city police said.......
2008-02-08 10:40:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
A third person has been charged by Manor Township police in connection with a series of crimes that included robbing and terrorizing an elderly Washington Boro woman. Ashley Smith, 21, of 5760 River Road, Conestoga, was charged this week by Manor Township Police Criminal Investigator Tricia Maz......
2008-01-30 01:28:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A brazen convenience store robber, labeled last year the "Turkey Hill bandit" for a string of violent holdups, was sentenced Tuesday to 40 to 80 years in state prison.Eugene Thye Bonner, 29, pleaded guilty in November to robbing Turkey Hill stores in Lancaster County eight times, from July......
2008-01-29 12:10:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
A city man who prosecutors said was responsible for a rash of brazen, violent convenience store robberies last year, was sentenced to 40 to 80 years in prison today in Lancaster County Court. Eugene Bonner, 29, whose last known address was the 900 block of Columbia Avenue, was charged with r......
2008-01-26 11:50:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
A motorist who was driving a suspected stolen car sped away from a Lancaster police officer late Wednesday night in the 200 block of West Strawberry Street, police said. Peter Gilchrist, 42, jumped out of a green Mitsubishi Mirage in the 400 block of South Christian Street, but he lost a foot c......
2008-01-25 01:26:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Wayne Weismandel described one suspect who attempted to rob his house in November 2006 as looking like an "all-American boy."Greg Van Olst of Manheim Township was later identified as that suspect.Van Olst was sentenced Thursday to 6½ to 19 years in state prison for the attemp......
2008-01-24 12:05:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Police continue to search for an armed bandit who held up the Fulton Bank in Leola shortly before 10 a.m. Wednesday. The suspect left a suspicious package inside the bank, prompting investigators to call for the state police bomb squad. The package contained no bomb, and t......
2008-01-24 00:42:00
STAFF REPORT
A robbery Wednesday morning at a bank in Leola was only the beginning of a hectic morning for police.The robber, according to a news release from East Lampeter Township Police Department, had a "suspicious package" that he claimed was a bomb. The state police bomb squad was calle......
2008-01-21 12:05:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Another person has been robbed at gunpoint in a parking lot at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, 750 E. King St. Just after midnight on Saturday, a man with a handgun approached 21-year-old Christian Antionne McClellan, of Lancaster, Trooper Dustin C. Shireman said. The man ordered M......
2008-01-19 12:37:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff writer
Two men told a Lancaster County judge on Friday how they were robbed at gunpoint one year ago while walking through Ephrata. Each man described how one robber held a gun to his face while the other collected the loot. Even though he was not the one pointing the gun, Keith J. Robinson, 21, ......
2008-01-18 02:04:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
State police are looking for a man who robbed two Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology students on campus Wednesday night.Kevin Christopher, 18, of North Cambria, and Michael Newman, 20, of Coatesville, gave a black male cash about 10 p.m. Wednesday after the man threatened them with a g......
2008-01-15 12:21:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
A convicted robber had written a nice statement on paper, which he read aloud in Lancaster County Court on Friday. But after the judge announced the lengthy sentence he was imposing on James Whitley, the defendant ripped his papers into pieces and shouted profanities at the prosecutor as s......
2008-01-12 11:59:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III and JANET KELLEY, Staff writers
Four women, including a department store assistant manager, face theft charges from incidents at their workplaces, police report. Melissa Booth, 25, of Brubaker Valley Road. Lititz, has been charged with theft and false report to law enforcement, Ephrata police said. While working as an as......
2008-01-12 11:51:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff writer
A young woman was sentenced to two to six years in prison Friday in Lancaster County Court for helping her boyfriend rob her co-workers at a fast-food restaurant. Colleen Marie Riley, 27, was working at Taco Bell, 1340 Columbia Ave., on the morning of Aug. 1, 2006. She left the back door o......
2008-01-10 12:19:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Police are still seeking an armed robber who held up a Leola bank about two weeks ago, and investigators are circulating a new surveillance picture of the suspect. The robber might be a motorcyclist as the picture shows him holding out a cycle helmet when he robbed the Bank of Lancaster County,......
2008-01-09 02:18:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
Police say a man charged in a 2006 armed robbery of an East Petersburg convenience store had an accomplice: the store clerk, who handed the gunman more than $600.Manheim Township police Monday filed charges of theft and false reports against Gregory L. Shorter, 26, a former clerk at the Tu......
2008-01-05 12:22:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff writer
Gunfire rang out during a Friday night robbery at the Mangat Mini Market on West Orange Street, but nobody was struck or injured, according to city police and the store's manager. The manager, David Mangat, and a fleeing robber fired a shot each with their handguns after the robber grabbed some......
2008-01-04 01:44:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
Jose Urdaneta has been a Lancaster city councilman for the past two years.During that time, he has been frustrated by the general lack of interest many city residents have in getting involved in their community.Thursday night was an exception, he said.The 50 people who turned......
2008-01-03 01:50:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
An Ephrata man who pleaded guilty in October to two armed robberies announced his intention to withdraw the plea Wednesday at a sentencing hearing.Keith J. Robinson, 21, told County Judge Joseph C. Madenspacher that he changed his mind while incarcerated in Lancaster County Prison. Robinso......
2007-12-29 12:17:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff writer
Manheim Township police have piled more house-burglary charges on an Ephrata-area man who was caught Dec. 18 following two break-ins at homes in the north end of the township. Anthony D. Yelverton, 26, of 48 Akron Road, Ephrata, was apprehended in the Mondamin Farms development after he alleged......
2007-12-29 12:07:00
JENNA SPINELLE, Staff writer
A young East Hempfield Township woman already in Lancaster County Prison for burglarizing area homes is facing more charges in connection with a break-in at a Manheim Township home. Township Detective John Wettlaufer on Friday filed a criminal complaint against Amanda Ziedonis, 20, of 1-C Colon......
2007-12-28 22:14:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
A man with a handgun held up a Bank of Lancaster County branch in Leola about 4 p.m. Friday, East Lampeter Township police said.The suspect entered the bank at at 16 E. Main St. brandishing a black pistol and demanded money from the bank tellers, police said.He is descri......
2007-12-28 00:39:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 20-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to 3 to 6 years in state prison for his role in a 2006 gunpoint robbery at a Landisville basketball court.Jordan M. Toney pleaded guilty in July to robbery and criminal conspiracy in the attack on Eric Eshleman. Toney's brother and two friends also ......
2007-12-27 11:58:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
Police interrupted a robbery at a city home Wednesday evening, catching one suspect while two others jumped from second-floor windows and escaped. Two men, one carrying a knife, were running down the steps of the home in the 300 block of South Prince Street, just as city police arrived aroun......
2007-12-20 01:31:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
West Lampeter Township police are looking for two men who assaulted a clerk while robbing a convenience store, then fled on bicycles.One of the robbers wielded a gun and the other carried a knife as they robbed Turkey Hill Minit Market, 1561 Millport Road, about 4 a.m. Wednesday, police sa......
2007-12-19 12:08:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
A pair of armed men wearing ski masks held up the Turkey Hill Minit Market at 1561 Millport Road, roughed up a clerk, and fled on bicycles shortly before 4 a.m. today, West Lampeter Township police said. The bandits were pedaling north on Millport Road toward Lancaster when they saw police cars......
2007-12-17 00:42:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A pizza delivery man was assaulted and robbed by two men Sunday night in Manheim Township, investigators said.The robbery took place on Jackson Street about 7 p.m. when two men approached the 30-year-old Pizza Hut employee after he left his vehicle to make his delivery, police said.......
2007-12-15 11:55:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Could the Manheim Township burglar have struck again? Two more burglaries of unlocked homes, as well as a string of car-break-ins, have been reported in Manheim Township. The incidents follow two reports of burglaries of unlocked homes and a report of a prowler earlier this week. In t......
2007-12-15 01:03:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
Manheim Township police are investigating whether a trio of incidents Thursday — a pair of home break-ins and a report of a prowler in a resident's backyard — may be related. The three homes are within walking distance of one another, police said. Police said a woman in the 130......
2007-12-11 00:59:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
Hundreds of mourners gathered at Covenant United Methodist Church Monday to pay their respects to Lancaster businessman Juan Lopez.They did not gather at the church to say "good-bye," according to the Rev. Wanda Santos-Perez, pastor of El Redentor United Methodist Church, where L......
2007-12-07 02:04:00
P.J. REILLY and MICHAEL YODER, Staff
Those who knew Juan Lopez would brace themselves when they saw him coming.That's because they knew the large jovial Dominican Republic native was likely to give them a big bear hug."One time I told him it hurt, and he told me to just get over it and that if I braced myself,......
2007-12-06 01:49:00
MICHAEL YODER and JENNIFER TODD, Staff
A gunman fatally wounded a 52-year-old man Wednesday night inside a Lancaster city check-cashing business.The victim, who was shot about 6 p.m., died at Lancaster General Hospital, according to police.Police released few details about the shooting at J&R Check Cashing, 305&frac1......
2007-12-06 01:43:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
When state police started talking to Justin Greer Tuesday evening, they thought they were dealing with an assault victim.Police said Greer was indeed attacked — by people with whom he had robbed a Subway restaurant that afternoon.Four people were arrested in connection with th......
2007-12-05 11:50:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
A young robber, described as having "rotting teeth," held up a Subway restaurant in Mount Joy at knifepoint late Tuesday afternoon, borough police said. The suspect entered the restaurant at 79 E. Main St., at about 5:30 p.m. He displayed a knife, demanded money, and fled from the res......
2007-12-05 02:06:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Investigators are searching for a man who robbed a Mount Joy Borough restaurant at knifepoint Tuesday night.The bandit, believed to be in his early 20s, displayed a knife and demanded money from an employee at the Subway restaurant, 79 E. Main St., police said. The man fled on foot with an......
2007-12-04 11:39:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Lancaster police continue to hunt for two men who entered a billiard parlor on North Prince Street early Sunday morning and robbed five or six patrons at gunpoint. The victims were shooting pool at Pho Billiards, 252 N. Prince St., when the robbers showed up just after midnight, police said.......
2007-12-03 11:39:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
The man and his friend took the time to steal a vehicle and distract police with a phone call before they went to rob a Manheim Township bank. "That really takes a criminal mind," Lancaster County Judge Michael Perezous told Jeffrey L. Ziegler this morning. He and co-defendant......
2007-12-01 03:05:00
MADELYN PENNINO, Staff
A man who allegedly robbed a bank in West Hempfield Township at gunpoint Monday held up the same bank again Friday, police said.West Hempfield Township police Sgt. Russell Geier said investigators think the person who committed Friday's robbery is the same one who held up Province Bank......
2007-11-30 11:47:00
TOM MURSE, Staff
A masked gunman held up a bank near Columbia this morning, and tellers there told police he appeared to be the same man who robbed them on Monday. A white male wearing a black ski mask, gray sweatpants and gray hooded sweatshirt robbed the Province Bank office at 10 S. 18th St., just east of th......
2007-11-29 11:58:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
It apparently worked once before, so the bank robber tried again. The second time, police said, he wasn't so lucky. Manheim Township Police arrived in the area around the Neffsville bank so fast, the robbery suspect was in custody in minutes. Now, the suspect's luck has really......
2007-11-29 01:57:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Violence against police officers is increasing nationwide, studies show, and one local department has the bruises to prove it.West Hempfield Township police officers have been physically confronted by suspects on three separate occasions since Nov. 6, officials said.Each time, offic......
2007-11-28 01:27:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Local investigators say they are looking for a masked man who robbed a West Hempfield Township bank at gunpoint Monday.The suspect, a man in his 20s or 30s, wore a dark-colored ski mask when he held up Province Bank at 10 S. 18th St. and fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash, pol......
2007-11-27 11:32:00
STAFF REPORT
Police continue to search for a masked gunman who held up a West Hempfield Township bank near Columbia on Monday afternoon.Just after 3:30 p.m., a robber entered the Province Bank, 10 S. 18th St., Columbia, which is in the Columbia Shopping Center off Route 462, West Hempfield police said.......
2007-11-21 11:17:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
A York man's instincts paid off Tuesday afternoon. Following his intuition — along with following two running teenagers — he helped solve a home invasion robbery, capture all four suspects and recover all the stolen loot, police said. Today, city police are crediting the ma......
2007-11-17 12:13:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff writer
The bank robbers had it timed perfectly. One minute before closing time, the masked gunman entered a Neffsville bank, helped himself to some cash and escaped in a waiting car. But the plan fell apart when Manheim Township Police descended on the area quickly. A policeman noticed a car......
2007-11-17 02:24:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
A masked gunman robbed a bank in Manheim Township Friday evening, taking an undisclosed amount of money, police said.Sgt. Tom Rudzinski said the man entered Susquehanna Bank, 2568 Lititz Pike, about 6:59 p.m., one minute before clerks were to close the Neffsville business.The man di......
2007-11-16 02:27:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Two unidentified males broke into a Manor Township home early Thursday, bound a 29-year-old mother living there and sexually assaulted her in front of her two young children, police said. The woman was sleeping with her children on a couch when the suspects forced their way into the house just ......
2007-11-15 11:14:00
JANET KELLEY
A woman was bound and sexually assaulted by robbers who burst into her Manor Township home early this morning, police said. The woman had fallen asleep in the living room with her two young children, police said, when the intruders forced their way inside shortly after midnight. Manor Town......
2007-11-10 03:30:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Three police officers arrested a pair of Mount Joy teens Thursday night after scuffling with the suspects, who they said were attempting to escape after a store robbery.West Hempfield Township police arrived about 9 p.m. at Grier's Market, 4499 Miller Drive, and startled the boys, who alre......
2007-11-08 10:48:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
In 20 minutes it was all over. Three people starting their days before dawn, including a Lancaster Newspaper deliverywoman, were robbed at gunpoint in the city early this morning, one after another. Between 4 and 4:20 a.m., city police Detective Lt. Kent Switzer said, each victim was quick......
2007-11-01 11:24:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Violent crimes, including two shootings and a knife attack, have kept Lancaster and nearby police departments busy the past two days. The latest crimes were the knife incident that happened outside a Millersville restaurant and a purse snatching reported at the northern edge of the city. Bot......
2007-10-30 02:43:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A Harrisburg man pleaded guilty Monday to taking part in the 2005 kidnapping and robbery of a Mount Joy family.Anthony Marcus Davis, 22, is one of three people charged in the incident. He will be sentenced on numerous felony charges after an investigation of his background and criminal his......
2007-10-27 02:01:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
A jailed Berks County man suspected in at least six holdups in a weekend crime spree spanning three counties earlier this month has been charged with robbing a Caernarvon Township convenience store.State Police in Ephrata reported Michael A. DeLossantos, 27, of Leesport was charged with th......
2007-10-26 01:53:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Manheim Township police were searching Thursday for two masked men who robbed a credit union in broad daylight.At 1:15 p.m. Thursday, police said, the men entered Lanco Federal Credit Union, 349 W. Roseville Road, jumped behind the counter and then fled with an undisclosed amount of cash....
2007-10-26 01:49:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Three Lancaster city teenagers were cleared of all charges Thursday after being jailed and accused of robbing a Manheim Township convenience store.Police say another city teen, 15-year-old Terralonce Miller Jr., falsely incriminated the boys after he was arrested at the Sept. 22 holdup of ......
2007-10-25 02:00:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
An Ephrata man suspected in several armed robberies over the summer was charged Wednesday with kidnapping a 59-year-old Stevens woman during the spree.According to police, Brian M. Knox, 26, got into the victim's car while she was parked at a Clay Township drive-through ATM on July 15, rob......
2007-10-24 11:42:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
A Columbia-area man accused of robbing the Mount Nebo General Store in Martic Township had just finished serving a jail sentence in Virginia and was to be returned to Lancaster County to face charges for the Feb. 22 store holdup. But the scheduled extradition of 25-year-old Eric Lee Fisher......
2007-10-24 01:08:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 40-year-old city man was sentenced Tuesday to 20 to 40 years in prison for a string of robberies a judge called "terrifying."William Lopez Morales was one of a group of armed men who invaded a Lancaster Township home in 2005 and robbed seven Millersville University students sta......
2007-10-21 00:15:00
GIL SMART, Associate editor
It was early May when Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray announced that he was fed up. The city was beginning to resemble the O.K. Corral. During the previous six months there had been 21 shootings, two of them fatal. It looked like a long, hot summer was on tap; and indeed, over the next month, there w......
2007-10-20 11:43:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff writer
A deliveryman for a Chinese restaurant near Columbia was the victim of a Thursday night armed robbery, West Hempfield Township police report. The victim was robbed shortly before 9:30 p.m. while delivering food from Yang's Chinese Restaurant in the Columbia Shopping Center at Route 462 and Sout......
2007-10-20 03:12:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
Police in West Hempfield Township are searching for two armed men who robbed a food delivery driver Thursday night.According to police, an employee of Yang's Garden Chinese Restaurant, 56 S. 18th St., Columbia, was making a delivery to an apartment at 175 Franklin Road at 9:40 p.m. when he......
2007-10-19 11:34:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
An alleged street robber reportedly apologized for his actions after Lancaster police arrested him Thursday night. Officers arrested Anthony C. Rodriguez-Caquias, 18, of the 400 block of North Prince Street, and two 15-year-old boys after they allegedly stole $40 from a man on Nevin Street, nea......
2007-10-15 11:32:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
How much ransom money would you pay to get your cell phone back from a robber? Perhaps $50 or $100 — maybe more if the phone were equipped with all the latest features. But not a whopping $185,000. Believe it or not, that was the initial amount an alleged pu......
2007-10-15 01:07:00
MADELYN PENNINO, Staff
Police are searching for a man who robbed at least two convenience stores over the weekend.State Trooper James Algeo said the suspect entered a Turkey Hill Minit Market at 2848 Main St. in Caernarvon Township about 6:50 p.m. Saturday night and asked a clerk for two cartons of cigarettes....
2007-10-10 21:14:00
LISA GOCKLEY, Correspondent
Ephrata Borough Council and Mayor Ralph Mowen Monday night recognized five members of Ephrata Police Department and two residents for "going above and beyond the call of duty in keeping our community safe," Mowen said.In late August the Ephrata area was plagued with a series of daylight ar......
2007-10-10 11:10:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
A Gap-area man who was arrested following a Sept. 28 vehicle pursuit on Route 340 is now looking at his second bank-robbery charge. Earl Douglas Walker Jr., 32, of 5561 Old Philadelphia Pike, allegedly robbed a Bank of Lancaster County branch near Mount Joy the day before he was caught, Ephrata......
2007-10-10 01:59:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Three suspects in a Lancaster city home-invasion robbery that ended in a 50-year-old man's death have been charged with homicide.One of the accused, 27-year-old Kenneth Sands, was ordered Tuesday at a preliminary hearing before District Judge Cheryl Hartman to stand trial for the Aug. ......
2007-10-09 11:42:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
A home-invasion robbery early last week near the Millersville University campus has led to college officials issuing a "Campus Alert" to students, faculty and staff. Nobody was injured in the gunpoint incident that happened at about 9 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 1, at a duplex home in the 20......
2007-10-09 01:16:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
State police recently charged four teens suspected in holdups on two horse-drawn buggies in southern Lancaster County in May.Police say a 19-year-old man and three juveniles — one of whom is being charged as an adult — were involved in two robberies May 20 in Fulton and East Dr......
2007-10-08 11:20:00
JANE HOLAHAN, Staff
Four suspects, including two juveniles, have been arrested for robbing the occupants of two horse-drawn buggies in southern Lancaster County in May. Christopher James Lewis, 19, of Rising Sun, Md., and Joseph Patrick Garvey, 17, of Nottingham, were charged last week with robbery, theft and c......
2007-10-08 00:03:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 31-year-old Maryland man has been charged with killing a woman inside her Chester County home Friday night, police said.Investigators said David Wayne Cole of Rising Sun confessed to police that he killed 51-year-old Donna Campbell at 320 Red Pump Road, Nottingham, about a mile and a hal......
2007-10-06 11:40:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff writer
Armed robbers struck twice Friday night in suburban shopping centers located east and and west of the city. Just before 9 p.m. a bandit with a box cutter stole money from the safe at the Advance Auto Parts Inc. store, 1282 Millersville Pike, in the Manor Shopping Center, Lancaster police said....
2007-10-04 13:39:00
STAFF REPORT
DISTURBANCES
EAST HEMPFIELD TWP: Adam Michael Hullihen, 18, of 228 N. Barbara St., Mount Joy, and Adam T. Sage, 18, of 135 Fox Hollow Road, Pequea, were charged with disorderly conduct from a Tuesday night highway incident, township police said. Police said a Lititz ma......
2007-10-03 11:19:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III and RYAN ROBINSON, Staff
A robber held up the Bank of Lancaster County branch on Route 272 near Brownstown shortly before 9:30 a.m. today, according to police dispatches. The bandit reportedly displayed no weapon during the holdup at 4250 Oregon Pike, Ephrata, just across the street from the Schaum's Corner shop......
2007-09-29 12:29:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff writer
A Friday night vehicle pursuit on Route 340 ended in the arrest of two men, one of whom is a suspect in a string of recent bank robberies, state police report. Robbery suspect Earl Douglas Walker, 22, was a passenger in a maroon Mitsubishi Mirage that troopers started chasing shortly before 8:3......
2007-09-28 01:04:00
STAFF REPORT
State police are searching for a man who robbed a bank Thursday afternoon.According to police, the man entered Bank of Lancaster County, 917 E. Main St., Mount Joy, about 1:10 p.m., approached a teller and demanded money. Police said the man fled with an undetermined amount of cash. It was......
2007-09-26 01:11:00
STAFF REPORT
Kadir Mehadi, 19, of 145 Main St., Apt. A, Landisville, was charged with robbery, burglary, theft by unlawful taking, recklessly endangering another person and discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure and committed to Lancaster County Prison on Sept 23.At 11:37 p.m., police office......
2007-09-25 11:05:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
The man who robbed the Bank of Lancaster County office at 949 E. King St. last Wednesday afternoon wore a Toronto Blue Jays baseball hat and possibly a wig while he was in the bank, Lancaster police said. Police have released a bank surveillance photo of the robber, who entered the Lancaster......
2007-09-25 00:29:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
The uncle of two of the teens charged with robbing a Manheim Township convenience store Saturday night said his nephews are innocent.Odell Ashford of 625 First St. said his nephews, Otis Ashford and Kendell Foster Jr., both 15, were at home with him at midnight Saturday.That's w......
2007-09-24 11:00:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Police have arrested four teenage boys who allegedly robbed a New Holland Avenue convenience store at gunpoint late Saturday night. The four boys, all of Lancaster City, are being charged as adults with robbery. They are: Evincii C. Dixon, 16, Otis Ashford, 15, Kendall C. Foster Jr., 15, and Te......
2007-09-24 00:47:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
Four teenage boys were sitting in Lancaster County Prison Sunday night after they allegedly robbed a Manheim Township convenience store at gunpoint late Saturday.The boys, three 15-year-olds and one 16-year-old, all were charged as adults with robbery and criminal conspiracy, and each is b......
2007-09-23 00:05:00
Staff Report
East Lampeter Township police have released surveillance photos of the man who robbed the Bridgeport branch of Wachovia Bank, 1643 Lincoln Highway East, Sept. 15. According to police, a white male entered the bank and presented a note demanding money. No weapon was displayed. The suspect left w......
2007-09-20 11:01:00
JANE HOLAHAN, Staff
The Bank of Lancaster County office at 949 E. King St. was robbed Wednesday afternoon. The suspect is described as "a tall white male, wearing a black hoodie, a black hat and dark pants," according to Lancaster City Police Sgt. Bill Gleason. He may also have been wearing a black wig. "It a......
2007-09-19 11:08:00
STAFF REPORT
A gunman robbed a hardware store along Route 322 in Clay Township late Tuesday afternoon, township police said. The robber, a white male, entered the Key-Aid Ace Hardware store, 1739 W. Main St., Ephrata, at about 4:30 p.m., Clay Township Police Chief William Leighty said. The man ap......
2007-09-18 11:14:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
A shoplifter who escaped from employees at a Manheim Township store is facing serious charges because he pulled out a gun. On Thursday night, a shoplifter started waving a handgun when employees of the Hawthorne Center Wal-Mart confronted him outside the store, township police said. T......
2007-09-17 11:30:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Police are searching for a robber who struck the Wachovia Bank at Bridgeport late Saturday morning. At about 11 a.m. a tall, thin man walked into the bank at 1643 Lincoln Highway East carrying a black backpack, East Lampeter Township police Lt. James Ely said. The man approached a cashier ......
2007-09-14 11:28:00
RYAN ROBINSON, Staff
He likes to wear a work uniform and sometimes carries a clipboard. The "friendly" man walks in the front door of restaurants around lunchtime and acts like a repairman showing up to fix something. He even has talked to a restaurant owner. As quickly and stealthily as poss......
2007-09-11 12:05:00
JANET KELLEY and ROBYN MEADOWS, Staff
A 55-year-old Ephrata man was hospitalized this morning after he was assaulted in his home, allegedly during a home invasion robbery, police said. Ephrata police are investigating the incident but released little information by late this morning. Police said they were called to a home i......
2007-09-11 12:01:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
A former Lancaster County man was brought back from Michigan Monday night and charged with a purse robbery that happened 22 months ago outside a Manor Township tavern, police said. Jason M. Gonzalez, 38, allegedly robbed a woman on Nov. 19, 2005, behind the Lucky Dog Cafe, 1942 Columbia Ave., M......
2007-09-11 12:00:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Burglars broke into a West Lampeter Township specialty shop over the weekend and cleaned out all the jewelry, police and store officials said. Hundreds of hand-crafted bracelets, necklaces, earring sets and other items were stolen Friday night from the ellabelle at Maple Croft store, 701 Penn G......
2007-09-10 11:11:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Two customers at an Ephrata supermarket became instant policemen on Sunday afternoon. Ephrata police said two middle-aged men who were waiting in check-out lines at a Weis Market grabbed an 18-year-old robbery suspect and held him until uniformed officers arrived. "That was good stuff......
2007-09-10 00:07:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Two customers thwarted a robbery inside an Ephrata Borough grocery store Sunday when they tackled an 18-year-old bandit who tried to run out of the store with cash, police said.Keith S. Good, of the 300 block of Duke Street, Ephrata, was arrested after the two middle-aged men tackled and h......
2007-09-08 12:34:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A masked gunman held up a motel on Route 30 East early today and escaped with an undisclosed amount of money, East Lampeter Township police said. The 3:30 a.m. robbery happened at the Quality Inn, formerly the Ramada Inn, at 2250 Lincoln Highway East, on the opposite side of Route 30 from Dutch......
2007-09-05 11:49:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
Of all the cars to break into, he liked the unmarked police car best. As police hid nearby and watched, the man smashed the window, opened the car and managed to grab a set of handcuffs from the glove box — before a detective snapped another pair around the suspect's wrists. Hect......
2007-09-05 11:40:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
A rash of recent knifepoint robberies at northern Lancaster County businesses could be over. A 30-year-old homeless man, considered to be the prime suspect in the multiple holdups, was captured Tuesday night after a brief vehicle and helicopter pursuit through the Ephrata area, police said....
2007-09-05 03:37:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 30-year-old man wanted in connection with at least five robberies since last month was captured Tuesday night in Ephrata Township.Police from several departments coordinated a stakeout for Eric Lee Singley. Officers pursued his vehicle by car and state police helicopter to a house on Rot......
2007-09-05 03:11:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Police are looking for a man who robbed two convenience stores in two counties Tuesday while wielding a butcher knife.The bandit robbed a Sunoco A-Plus store at 1404 N. Reading Road, Stevens, about 1:35 a.m., investigators said, an hour after he allegedly robbed a Redner's Quick Shoppe at ......
2007-09-04 11:50:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
The suspect who allegedly robbed the Ephrata National Bank in Akron Friday morning had planned to head for the state of Washington. But 23-year-old Avel T. Shkurko of Ephrata never made it out of Lancaster County. At 3:30 a.m. today, police said, two alert Ephrata state police troopers ......
2007-09-04 10:49:00
RYAN ROBINSON, Staff
The knife-wielding robber of two Ephrata stores last month may have struck twice more. East Cocalico Township Police reported the Sunoco A Plus store at 1404 N. Reading Road, Reamstown, was robbed at about 1:35 this morning. The suspect displayed a knife with a long blade and took an un......
2007-09-01 11:59:00
Staff Report
Police officers are on the lookout for a 23-year-old Ephrata man, a day after he allegedly robbed an Akron bank. Akron Borough police have filed charges against Avel T. Shkurko, of 910 Crooked Lane, Ephrata. Officers reportedly identified Shkurko from bank surveillance camera images. An em......
2007-09-01 03:05:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
A police manhunt is under way for a 23-year-old Ephrata man suspected of robbing the Ephrata National Bank in Akron Friday morning.Akron police identified Avel T. Shkurko as the robber from surveillance photos at the bank on Route 272 in Akron. Police did not say how much money was taken i......
2007-08-31 11:50:00
JANET KELLEY and TOM MURSE, Staff
A quiet robber didn't even make it up to the bank tellers' counter this morning but just handed the demand note to the first person he met — a customer service representative. The customer service representative in the Ephrata National Bank, on Route 272 in Akron, silently obey......
2007-08-28 02:02:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 50-year-old Lancaster city man who died after a home-invasion robbery earlier this month was threatened with a knife and punched repeatedly during the incident, according to court documents.Police announced Monday that all three suspects in the robbery and assault at 546 Lafayette St. ar......
2007-08-27 11:28:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Lancaster police detectives have located a woman and a man they suspect of robbing a 50-year-old man in his home shortly before he died. Lourdes M. Ramos and Alejandro DeJesus fled to Newark, N.J., soon after they and a third person, already in custody, allegedly robbed Todd Leu......
2007-08-25 12:02:00
JANET KELLEY
Two Landisville homes were burglarized during daylight hours on Thursday, according to West Hempfield Township Police. Police said the incidents appear to be similar and the homes were near each other. The first incident was discovered shortly after 10 a.m. in the first block of Country La......
2007-08-25 12:01:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Area police have had a busy few days recovering handguns, investigating robberies and arresting suspects for firearms violations, assault and burglary. The most recent incidents happened late Friday night in Lancaster and Ephrata. At about 10:40 p.m, city police Officer Randell Zook spotte......
2007-08-21 11:09:00
CINDY STAUFFER, Staff
There was a strange sort of symmetry to it. The three young men walked into the convenience store, pulling their shirts over their faces to hide them from the clerk they allegedly robbed and shot at early Monday. Nine hours later, one of the suspects walked into a courtroom the same way......
2007-08-21 11:09:00
ROBYN MEADOWS, Staff
People don't usually bring scissors along when they come to SuperCuts on Fruitville Pike. One man did on Monday afternoon. He wasn't coming for a cut, however. At 2:20, the man walked into the shop at 1949 Fruitville Pike, wielded the scissors, flashed a note, then robbed the store......
2007-08-21 11:07:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
A lone robber held up an employee at the Vitamin World Inc. store at the Rockvale Square Outlets shopping complex late Monday morning, East Lampeter Township police said. The suspect, a black male with corn-row style hair, entered the store at 11:10 a.m., Detective Preston K. Gentzler said. He ......
2007-08-21 00:41:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 20-year-old Lancaster man was charged with attempted murder Monday for shooting at a Manheim Township convenience store clerk while robbing the store with two friends, police said.Junior F. Santana fired at least six shots from a .22-caliber rifle — two at the male clerk — as......
2007-08-20 11:23:00
CINDY STAUFFER, Staff
Twenty minutes after the crime, police nabbed three men suspected of robbing and firing shots into a Manheim Township convenience store early today, charging one with attempted murder. And police are investigating whether the men could be connected to another recent robbery, during which a c......
2007-08-20 11:17:00
STAFF REPORT
Lancaster County police had a busy weekend investigating knifepoint robberies in Ephrata and arresting suspects after pursuits in Lancaster and Warwick Township. Ephrata police believe the same bandit robbed two stores at shopping plazas along North Reading Road (Route 272). At about 3:......
2007-08-16 00:41:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A $10,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest in connection with the weekend shooting of a local store clerk.The 70-year-old clerk was shot in the leg Sunday morning while working at the Hess station, 1660 Rohrerstown Road, East Hempfield Township.As of W......
2007-08-16 00:38:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
One of Lancaster County's most wanted is off the streets and in police custody, according to local investigators.James J. Malave, suspected of a 1999 homicide and robbery in Lancaster city, was arrested Tuesday in Brooklyn, N.Y.Malave, a 27-year-old Brooklyn resident who once li......
2007-08-15 11:15:00
CINDY STAUFFER, Staff
A convenience store company is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of two robbers, one of whom recently shot a store clerk. At 4 a.m. Sunday, a man shot the clerk as he was robbing him at the Hess Express store on Rohrerstown Road, just north of Route ......
2007-08-14 11:28:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Roadside produce stands are doing a big business in corn and tomatoes these days, and they also have become targets of thieves. On Saturday afternoon, a robber scared away a young female who was tending a produce stand along Route 322 in Earl Township, north of New Holland. The suspect gra......
2007-08-14 01:36:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 50-year-old Lancaster city man found dead Thursday after a robbery inside his home was not shot or stabbed, according to an autopsy performed Monday.The autopsy also did not find signs of a beating severe enough to have caused Todd Leuthold's death, investigators said.Also Monday,......
2007-08-13 11:23:00
CINDY STAUFFER, Staff
The masked man shoved a rifle against the square-jawed, gray-haired clerk, who was trying to open a cash register at an East Hempfield Township convenience store early Sunday morning. It was the second of what would be three armed robberies in the county over the weekend, at two convenience ......
2007-08-13 00:52:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
A convenience store clerk was shot and wounded early Sunday during a holdup in East Hempfield Township.The robbery happened about 4 a.m. at Hess Express, 1660 Rohrerstown Road.East Hempfield police said two men entered the store and demanded the clerk behind the counter turn over mo......
2007-08-12 00:16:00
JON RUTTER, Staff writer
A Lancaster man has been charged with theft, robbery and other offenses in connection with a Thursday night home invasion in the city Kenneth Eugene Sands Jr., 27, of the 400 block of Charlotte Street, was apprehended early Friday after police pursued him from Lancaster to Columbia. Sands......
2007-08-11 01:30:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
Police have arrested one suspect in Thursday's apparent home invasion, but details are few and neighborhood residents say they're scared.•••Neighbors and acquaintances of Todd T. Leuthold are trying to make sense of the death of......
2007-08-09 11:20:00
JANET KELLEY and PAUL FRANZ, Staff
In the dozen years he's owned the city corner store, Mohammed Ansari has never been robbed. He wasn't going to let that streak be broken on Wednesday without a fight. Shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday, Ansari said a man came into his store, J & A Mini Market, 568 Manor St., an......
2007-08-03 11:35:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
They were punched, robbed and punched again. A young couple sitting on a porch. One man walking home in his neighborhood. Innocent people, on a warm summer evening, when they were attacked by what a Lancaster County judge described as "a pack of predators." On Thursd......
2007-08-02 11:06:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
A $499 oil painting was stolen during Saturday's Lititz Art Show held in Lititz Springs Park, police said. The artist, Gladys Zeiset, about age 60, of New Holland, is "very upset" about the theft, said Lititz police Sgt. Kerry Nye. The stolen painting is of "a basket ......
2007-07-31 11:45:00
JANET KELLEY and CINDY STAUFFER, Staff
The plan was to pick a house, push the homeowner inside and help themselves to the "merchandise" inside, 16-year-old Emru Kebede testified this morning. On the night of May 2, when they approached Ray Diener's home in West Donegal Township, Kebede said, they knocked and asked Dien......
2007-07-31 10:59:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
In a brazen criminal act in downtown Lancaster, a robber grabbed a woman's pocketbook and dragged the 70-year-old victim along the sidewalk in front of the Hager Arcade building late Monday morning. "He said 'Let it go, let it go.' It got to the point I couldn't hold on ......
2007-07-30 11:30:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
An assailant tackled and robbed a 74-year-old man as the victim walked through the information center at the Tanger Outlet shopping plaza off Route 30 late Saturday, East Lampeter Township police said. The victim, who is from Latrobe in Westmoreland County, was not seriously inj......
2007-07-23 11:14:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Robbery charges are mounting against a 42-year-old Pequea man who was caught a week ago after he allegedly fled with money from a Leola-area convenience store. James Douglas Mowrer, 42, of 78 E. Loop Road, now has been charged with five robberies or money thefts at suburban stores, with more......
2007-07-17 10:38:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
A Pequea man allegedly robbed a New Holland Pike store near Leola on Monday evening and then drove about 80 mph into Lancaster before he was caught, police said. James Douglas Mowrer, 42, of 78 E. Loop Road, Pequea, has been charged with robbery, theft and fleeing-eluding, police said. ......
2007-07-16 11:28:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Area police are investigating three robberies, including the gunpoint holdup of a woman who was using an ATM machine at a Clay Township bank. The 59-year-old woman had just pulled up to the machine at the Blue Ball Bank, 1001 Sharp Ave., just west of Ephrata, at 1:10 p.m. Sunday, when a youn......
2007-07-11 10:45:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A man who allegedly stole cash from five different Lancaster City convenience stores in a recent one-week period is now in police custody. Detectives arrested Nino Anthony Payge, 31, at the Water Street Rescue Mission late Tuesday night. He faces four theft charges and one robbery charge, in......
2007-07-11 02:22:00
BRETT LOVELACE, Staff
Patricia Westervelt jumped out of a speeding van on Route 283 to get away from the trio who kidnapped her at gunpoint in the middle of the night from her Mount Joy home.The 41-year-old mother and former bank teller has spent the 22 months since her Oct. 3, 2005, abduction trying to recover......
2007-07-10 12:43:00
JANET KELLEY, Staff
A Conestoga man, blaming his actions on a heroin addiction, was sentenced Monday to 25 years in federal prison for two armed bank robberies. David Lloyd Shore, 27, of Oak Road, pleaded guilty in April to holding up banks in Lancaster and Concordville in October, escaping with a total of $6,5......
2007-07-07 00:17:00
STAFF REPORT
Ephrata police are investigating an armed robbery that happened at Good's Store in Ephrata borough Friday.According to a news release issued by the Ephrata police, a man entered the store in the 1600 block of Main Street, about 6 p.m., showed employees a black pistol and demanded cash.......
2007-07-05 00:53:00
STAFF REPORT
West Earl Township police are seeking a man who robbed a Turkey Hill convenience store early Wednesday.According to police, the suspect entered the store on North State Street in Brownstown about 1:10 a.m. and robbed the clerk at gunpoint. Police said the suspect appeared to have a ha......
2007-07-03 12:36:00
JANET KELLEY
An employee of a Chinese-food restaurant along Lincoln Highway East told police a man tried to grab her purse Saturday night as she left work. Min Jiang, of Lancaster, told police that shortly before midnight, she was closing up the King Buffet, 2495 Lincoln Highway East, and was accosted by a ......
2007-06-26 00:53:00
BRETT LOVELACE, Staff
The hearing for a man accused of stabbing an 88-year-old woman during the April burglary of an Ephrata Township home that netted $25 was postponed Monday.Timothy Stallsworth, 41, an ex-convict who shot at a Butler County policeman in 1997, must undergo a mental-health evaluation before an ......
2007-06-21 12:27:00
JANET KELLEY
An ex-convict now faces an additional charge of attempted murder in the April attack on his girlfriend's 88-year-old grandmother in her Ephrata home. Timothy Stallsworth, 40, and his girlfriend, Melissa Hurst, 18, have already been charged with aggravated assault, robbery, burglary and conspira......
2007-06-21 12:21:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Lancaster County police have been busy investigating thefts at area businesses, and not all the suspects have been getting away. West Lampeter Township police officers were waiting outside the Kmart store at the Kendig Square shopping center when a Lancaster woman and a Reading woman walked ......
2007-06-20 00:57:00
BRETT LOVELACE, Staff
A 64-year-old Elizabethtown man who robbed a motel received a lighter sentence Tuesday in exchange for agreeing to testify at a federal gun trial later this year.Lancaster County Judge David L. Ashworth sentenced John Lowell IV to 3 to 10 years in state prison for using a knife to rob an U......
2007-06-19 12:30:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
West Earl Township police arrested three Berks County men who allegedly were caught stealing scrap metal from a township firm early Sunday morning. The three men entered the Amerian LaFrance Inc complex, 64 Cocalico Creek Road, through a hole in a fence at about 1 a.m., police said. The fi......
2007-06-19 01:20:00
BRETT LOVELACE, Staff
Two suspects accused of sneaking into an upscale Manheim Township home through a pet entrance and tying up a married couple in March will face trial.Jorge Marin Chavez, 22, of 552 Walnut St., Columbia, and Manuel Rafael Fisher, 17, of 615 Eagles View, waived their preliminary hearing Monda......
2007-06-15 03:01:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A Maryland man suspected of robbing banks in at least six counties, including Lancaster, was captured this week at a Virginia hotel.Lancaster County investigators believe the 30-year-old suspect, Thomas B. Dougher, targeted banks in four Pennsylvania counties, including at least two here....
2007-06-14 15:49:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Three teenage boys recently broke into about 25 unlocked vehicles in the Willow Street area, West Lampeter Township police said. Justen Davis, 18, of the 200 block of Lancaster Avenue, Strasburg, and two 16-year-olds allegedly looted parked cars on Wynwood Drive, Woodhall Drive and Willow Valle......
2007-06-13 14:06:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Lancaster police caught three burglary suspects inside an East Orange Street apartment late Tuesday night, but several robbers remain at large. A woman who lives in the 400 block of East Orange Street climbed out a window and called police when three young males broke into her first-floor apart......
2007-06-12 01:26:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A masked man robbed a bank on Lititz Pike Monday afternoon and left with cash, Manheim Township police said.The holdup occurred at 3:22 p.m. inside Susquehanna Bank, 2568 Lititz Pike, investigators said.The suspect entered the bank wearing a ski mask and announced the robbery to the......
2007-06-08 03:10:00
ERIC HUGHES, Staff
Two teenagers forced the driver of a horse-drawn buggy to stop on a Fulton Township road Wednesday, then attempted to force the occupants from the buggy, according to state police at the Lancaster barracks.A news release said the suspects — a white male and a white female both in the......
2007-06-06 14:34:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Two men viciously assaulted a truck driver who found them breaking into rigs early today at the L.M. Prange Trucking Inc. firm in Colerain Township, Lancaster state police said. The men, who struck 57-year-old Robert Charles Schulze in the head with a heavy object, remain at large. Schulze......
2007-06-05 14:28:00
JANET KELLEY
A Blue Ball man who robbed the occupants of a horse-drawn buggy and two convenience store clerks, was sentenced Monday in Lancaster County Court to 7 to 15 years in prison. Jason D. Jarvis, 25, apologized to his family, the victims and his girlfriend, and told Lancaster County Judge James Culle......
