Posted on: August 12, 2022
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office would like to warn residents of a scam where the offender emails a fake warrant from the Bucks County Sheriff’s Office and threatens the recipient with arrest if they do not pay a fee.
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Posted on: August 12, 2022
A 25-year-old man was convicted on Thursday, August 11, 2022, for the straw purchase of six guns he purchased at Chalfont gun store in November 2020, the latest example of this office’s efforts to punish those who illegally possess and sell guns...
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Posted on: August 9, 2022
It’s always a great day when we can announce some new additions and promotions at the District Attorney’s Office.
This morning, our two newest Assistant District Attorneys were sworn into office, and two county detectives who ...
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Posted on: August 5, 2022
An investigation by the Bucks County Detectives Drug Strike Force led to the arrest Thursday of a 33-year-old felon and the seizure of three ghost guns, two rifles, ammunition and tools used to make additional firearms.
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Posted on: July 19, 2022
A Tullytown man was sentenced Tuesday morning to 2 ½ to five years in state prison in his fifth domestic abuse case against the same woman.
Bryan Trentini, 37, of Laurel Lane, entered an open guilty plea in April to terroristic threats...
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Posted on: July 12, 2022
An Upper Southampton Township woman was sent to Bucks County Correctional Facility for causing the asphyxiation death of an 11-month-old girl at an illegal daycare facility the woman ran out of her home.
Lauren Elizabeth Landgrebe, 50, was senten...
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Posted on: June 28, 2022
Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub has announced charges in a homicide that occurred in the Holland section of Northampton Township earlier this month.
Thadius William McGrath, 35, of Chatham, Massachusetts is charged with Murder of th...
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Posted on: June 23, 2022
A 25-year-old man pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of a teenage girl from 2015 to 2016 and was sent to Bucks County Correctional Facility for the next 10 months to 23 ½ months.
Cody Dylan Jammer, of Lower Makefield Towns...
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Posted on: June 22, 2022
An Upper Southampton Township woman admitted on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, to causing the asphyxiation death of an 11-month-old girl at an illegal daycare facility the woman ran out of her home.
Lauren Elizabeth Landgrebe, 50, of the 1500 block of R...
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Posted on: June 10, 2022
The man who admitted to killing Dr. James Sowa inside the chiropractor's home office in Bensalem in November 2020 was convicted Friday, June 10, 2022, of 3rd-degree murder and sentenced to 37 to 74 years in state prison.
Joseph O&ap...
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Posted on: June 9, 2022
The Bucks County Detectives Drug Strike Force and Bristol Township Police Department took down a gun and drug ring they say supplied methamphetamine and firearms, including untraceable “ghost guns” and fully automatic weapons, in the L...
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Posted on: June 6, 2022
A Philadelphia man was sentenced on Monday, June 6, 2022, to 17 to 40 years in state prison for sex trafficking of a 15-year-old girl in Bensalem.
Andrew Hall, 29, pleaded guilty on February 28 to two dozen offenses, including felony counts of hu...
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Posted on: June 2, 2022
A Huntingdon Valley contractor was charged Wednesday, June 1, 2022, with ripping off at least four Bucks County homeowners of more than $210,000 for work he never completed, and in some cases never began.
Joseph Eibell, 47, faces four counts each...
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Posted on: May 27, 2022
A 23-year-old man pleaded guilty on Friday, May 27, 2022, to killing Dr. James Sowa inside the chiropractor's home office in Bensalem in November 2020.
Joseph O'Boyle, of Bensalem, entered an open guilty plea to criminal homicid...
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Posted on: May 25, 2022
District Attorney Matt Weintraub today announced that a 56-year-old man will be charged with murdering Joy Hibbs in April 1991 and trying to cover up the crime by setting her Bristol Township home on fire, an arrest that follows a tireless investigation b...
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Posted on: May 23, 2022
A 26-year-old man will spend two to five years in state prison for supplying the drugs that led to a woman's overdose death at a Tullytown recovery house last summer.
Matthew Derby Lavender, of Bensalem, appeared before Common Pleas Judg...
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Posted on: May 20, 2022
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office is hosting a free VIN etching event this Sunday, May 22, 2022, at Parx Casino in Bensalem, in conjunction with the Bensalem Police Activities League “Cops and Rodders” Car Show.&...
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Posted on: May 19, 2022
The 25-year-old man who seriously injured four Neshaminy High School girls in a drunken head-on crash in Northampton Township last year will spend more than 15 to 30 years in state prison.
Shane Brolly was heavily intoxicated the night of March 27, 2021, w...
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Posted on: May 12, 2022
A 22-year-old man was convicted by a Bucks County jury on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, of shooting at a group of people that included a 4-year-old child during a November 2019 encounter in Bristol Township.
Sysco Schruby, of Bristol, was found guilty...
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Posted on: May 9, 2022
The 38-year-old mother who shot her two juvenile sons in Upper Makefield Township last week is now facing first-degree murder charges after the boys passed away on Friday.
Trinh T. Nguyen, 38, has been in custody since Monday, May 2, 2022, when s...
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Posted on: May 6, 2022
Christopher Gillie, charged with setting the December fire at a Buckingham Township home that killed an 81-year-old man, was formally arraigned Friday morning, a day after the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office filed notice of aggravating c...
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Posted on: May 4, 2022
A Bensalem woman will spend close to one to two years in the Bucks County Correctional Facility for stealing $6,500 from her 89-year-old grandmother in the county’s first conviction of a recently passed law aimed at protecting seniors from finan...
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Posted on: May 3, 2022
A 51-year-old man was sentenced to five to 15 years in state prison for a brutal domestic assault against his ex-girlfriend where he twice struck her in the head with an aluminum baseball bat.
Roland Blake Ghiloni, with a last known address in Quakertown, ...
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Posted on: May 2, 2022
District Attorney Matt Weintraub today announced attempted homicide charges against a 38-year-old woman for the shooting of her two juvenile sons and the attempted shooting of a neighbor in Upper Makefield Township.
Trinh T. Nguyen, 38, was taken...
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Posted on: April 29, 2022
A 64-year-old man is facing a number of weapons charges after a search of his Plumstead Township home turned up a fully automatic “ghost gun” and a rifle with an obliterated serial number.
Scott Allen McCaughey, of the 4900 block of Dur...
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Posted on: April 29, 2022
A 79-year-old man is facing child pornography charges following an investigation conducted by the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office.
Nicholas Stefanowski, of Newtown Township, was charged with possession of child pornography and c...
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Posted on: April 29, 2022
A 22-year-old man is being charged with killing his father in their Newtown Township home on Friday, April 29, 2022.
Jordan Matthew Kurman, of Newtown Township, faces charges of criminal homicide and possession of an instrument of crime. He was a...
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Posted on: April 28, 2022
A 28-year-old man pleaded guilty on Thursday, April 28, 2022, in the death of his 2-year-old son who picked up his father’s handgun and accidentally shot himself in a Middletown Township apartment in December 2020.
Jorddan M. Thornton a...
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Posted on: April 28, 2022
A 34-year-old man will spend up to 15 years in state prison for firing 18 shots toward a man, the man’s girlfriend, and her child in Middletown Township two years ago, the bullets striking occupied apartments but missing anyone inside.  ...
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Posted on: April 26, 2022
A Bristol Township man will spend 25 to 50 years in prison for the repeated sexual assault of a boy during a 12-year period from 1995 to 2007.
David Charles Hofmann, 62, was found guilty in December on charges of rape of a child, involuntary devi...
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Posted on: April 25, 2022
A Bucks County Investigating Grand Jury has recommended a 20-year-old man be charged in a fatal hit-and-run crash last Christmas Eve in Bristol Township.
Kevin Michael Baker Jr., of Bensalem, turned himself in on Monday, April 25, 2022, to be arr...
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Posted on: April 22, 2022
A 40-year-old man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nearly 10 years to 40 years in state prison on Friday, April 22, 2022, for running a drug smuggling ring inside the Bucks County Correctional Facility.
Alfonso Sanchez was in the co...
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Posted on: April 12, 2022
A Philadelphia man pleaded guilty on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, and was sentenced to 18 months to 48 months in state prison for assaulting Bucks County sheriff's deputies last year while trying to evade security protocols at the Bucks County Justic...
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Posted on: April 6, 2022
A 28-year-old man was sentenced on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, to 19 to 40 years in a state prison for the repeated rapes of two boys in Warrington Township.
Rosalio Suchite, of Warrington, pleaded guilty on August 27 to two counts of involuntary d...
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Posted on: March 31, 2022
Hilltown Township Police and the Bucks County Detectives have charged a 48-year-old pizza parlor owner with the death of her longtime partner.
Anna Maria Tolomello was arraigned on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. She is charged with shooting and killi...
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Posted on: March 29, 2022
A Texas truck driver and a California woman were found guilty on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, of trafficking $5.6 million worth of drugs through Bucks County.
Christian Ochoa, 29, of Laredo, Texas, and Edith Tomasa Rodriguez Cardenas, 28, of Huntingt...
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Posted on: March 25, 2022
A 41-year-old man admitted on Friday, March 25, 2022, to hiding the body of an overdose victim behind the dumpster of an apartment complex in Bensalem Township.
Maksim Stankevich pleaded guilty before Common Pleas Judge Raymond F. McHugh on charg...
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Posted on: March 25, 2022
A 50-year-old man was sentenced to two to four years in state prison after pleading guilty on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, to killing his dog last year and then burning it on a barbecue grill.
Nikolay Lukyanchikov, of Northampton Township, entered an open gu...
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Posted on: March 25, 2022
A 37-year-old man pleaded guilty on Friday, March 25, 2022, to kidnapping a young man last year in Upper Southampton Township, forcing him at knifepoint to drive to an ATM to withdraw money and threatening to kill him and his mother.
Pavel Belous...
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Posted on: March 24, 2022
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Christopher Larue, 44, of Lansdale, PA, was sentenced to 25 years and one day in prison, five years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $7,500 fine by U...
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Posted on: March 21, 2022
In a joint operation by Detectives with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, the Office of Attorney General’s Gun Violence Task Force and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a 25-year-old Philadelphia man w...
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Posted on: March 16, 2022
A 33-year-old man was sentenced on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, to 12 to 24 years in state prison for three arrests involving gun and drug offenses, two arrests happening while he was out on bail.
Austin Vaughn Carter, of Northampton Township, pleade...
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Posted on: March 15, 2022
A 38-year-old man will spend the next seven to 15 years in state prison for the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Falls Township last year.
Shane Ferguson, of Morrisville, pleaded guilty in September to rape by forcible compulsion, aggravated indecen...
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Posted on: March 15, 2022
A former Philadelphia police lieutenant was sentenced on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, to just under a year to two years in the Bucks County Correctional Facility for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in 2017.
Richard Michael Frank, 51, was conv...
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Posted on: March 8, 2022
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office announced on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, that additional charges are being filed against the former choir director at Central Bucks West High School for indecently assaulting two former students. ...
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Posted on: March 5, 2022
A Philadelphia woman and her son were charged Friday, March 4, 2022, with the murder of Christopher M. Wilson, who was gunned down outside his workplace in Middletown Township in December of 2020.
Joyce Brown-Rodriguez, 55, and Kahlill Saleem Bro...
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Posted on: March 4, 2022
A Bucks County jury on Thursday, March 3, 2022, convicted a 46-year-old man of selling the heroin/fentanyl that killed a man at a Milford Township cemetery in November 2019.
Jose David Maldonado, of Easton, was found guilty of drug delivery resul...
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Posted on: March 1, 2022
The Bucks County Commissioners and the District Attorney have filed a joint lawsuit against several manufacturers of dangerous PFAS that have contaminated water and soil in Bucks County.
Filed Tuesday in the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas, the suit see...
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Posted on: March 1, 2022
A 26-year-old man pleaded guilty on Tuesday, March 1, 2020, to sexually extorting and harassing 15 victims, including one young woman who later killed herself.
Ian Pisarchuk, of the 3600 block of Skyline Drive, Bensalem Township, admitted that fo...
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Posted on: February 18, 2022
Brian Joseph Carey was charged on Friday, February 18, 2022. with killing his 78-year-old stepfather in his stepfather’s Bristol Township home earlier this week.
Carey, 41, with no current address, was arrested Wednesday night, hours af...
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Posted on: February 14, 2022
A 25-year-old man was sentenced on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, to six to 15 years in state prison for entering several unlocked vehicles in Upper Bucks County and stealing handguns and other items, which he then sold.
Bobby Andrew Johnson, formerly of...
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Posted on: February 8, 2022
The choir director at Central Bucks West High School is being charged with hiding cameras inside a bedroom of his home to record a former student as he undressed.
Joseph Ohrt, 56, of Buckingham Township, is facing one count of interception, discl...
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Posted on: January 31, 2022
A 51-year-old man pleaded guilty on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, to an October 2020 shooting in Bristol Township and was sentenced to eight to 20 years in state prison.
Terrance Oliver Hall fired at least six shots at an occupied vehicle at Mitchell Ro...
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Posted on: January 28, 2022
Can you help us catch these brazen catalytic converter thieves?
These two suspects committed this theft in broad daylight on the Jan. 20. The theft happened at approximately 2:42 p.m. at a home on Century Avenue in Bristol Township. They fled in ...
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Posted on: January 21, 2022
A 29-year-old man who illegally sold a loaded handgun and ammunition to undercover police in Bensalem Township in December 2020 was sentenced on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, to serve up to seven years in state prison.
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Posted on: January 20, 2022
After 40-year-old Amanda Shields died of a suspected drug overdose in her Falls Township home on Aug. 11, 2020, Bucks County Detectives and Falls Township Police began a lengthy investigation to find out where she got the fentanyl-laced Percocet pill that...
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Posted on: January 19, 2022
A man convicted of attempted homicide for shooting a man during an assault in February 2019 at a Falls Township trailer park was sentenced on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, to 18 to 40 years in state prison.
Thomas Zorrer, 39, was convicted on all cou...
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Posted on: January 18, 2022
A man and woman will face decades in state prison for the repeated sexual assault of three children under the age of 13, abuse that they also filmed in more than 40 videos of child pornography.
Leonard F. Hewitt Sr., 51, and Krystyn Anne Smock, 4...
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Posted on: January 18, 2022
Two Philadelphia drug dealers arrested two years ago during an investigation by the Bucks County Detectives Drug Strike Force were sentenced on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, to up to 20 years in state prison.
Winston Frias-Moya, 33, and Adalberto Villa...
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Posted on: January 7, 2022
A 27-year-old woman admitted Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, that she was intoxicated when she struck and killed a man walking along Stump Road in Plumstead Township and then fled the scene.
Charlotte Mary Kleckner, of Doylestown, appeared before Common Pleas Judg...
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Posted on: January 6, 2022
The 24-year-old man who seriously injured four Neshaminy High School girls in a drunken head-on crash in Northampton Township last year pleaded guilty on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, to all charges.
Shane Brolly is accused of crossing into opposing tr...
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Posted on: December 23, 2021
A Penndel Borough man was sentenced on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, to 49 to 98 years in state prison for the sexual assault of five boys from 1993 to 2010.
Louis Charles Aiello, 59, was found guilty in July on several charges, including felony count...
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Posted on: December 22, 2021
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office and Perkasie Police Department are asking for the public’s assistance in finding two men who have been missing from the area for more than two months.
Matthew James Branning, 50, of Sellersville, and Mi...
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Posted on: December 21, 2021
Tullytown Borough Police Officer Nate Aldsworth had just finished a call when he got a distressing call around 10:58 a.m. on Nov. 24, the day before Thanksgiving.
A 4-to-5-day old baby boy had stopped breathing, possibly from an obstructed airway...
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Posted on: December 19, 2021
A 38-year-old man was charged Sunday morning with a killing a man inside a Bristol Township home on Saturday night.
David Joseph Jenner had been staying at the home at 605 Veterans Highway when he got into an argument with 43-year-old Charlie R. ...
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Posted on: December 13, 2021
A homeless couple was sentenced on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021, for two violent carjackings and an attempted carjacking in Newtown Township and Middletown Township in November 2020, sending two people to the hospital.
Eric Meehan, 29, and Ashley Young,...
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Posted on: December 9, 2021
HARRISBURG—Rep. Wendi Thomas (R-Bucks) will soon introduce legislation to crack down on home delivery theft.
“With the ongoing pandemic, online purchases have skyrocketed,” Thomas said.
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Posted on: December 9, 2021
A 51-year-old man was sentenced on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, to 10 to 20 years in state prison after pleading guilty to the repeated rape of a woman for more than seven years, starting when she was 16 years old.
Joseph Exume, of Morrisville, began ...
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Posted on: December 8, 2021
A 62-year-old man was convicted by a Bucks County jury on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, for the repeated sexual assault of a boy during a 12-year period from 1995 to 2007.
David Charles Hofmann, of Bristol Township, was found guilty of rape of a child...
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Posted on: December 8, 2021
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office and Middletown Township Police are seeking the public’s assistance in solving the murder of Christopher M. Wilson of Philadelphia, PA.
Friday, December 10th, will mark one year since...
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Posted on: December 6, 2021
A Lackawanna County man was charged with setting a fire at a Buckingham Township home early Sunday morning, killing an 81-year-old man inside and sending his wife fleeing from the home.
Christopher George Gillie, 61, of Dunmore, was charged with ...
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Posted on: December 2, 2021
A 38-year-old man was found guilty on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, of attempted homicide and related charges stemming from a shooting and assault in February 2019 at a trailer park in Morrisville.
Thomas Zorrer was also convicted by a Bucks County jur...
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Posted on: December 2, 2021
A former Philadelphia police lieutenant was convicted by a Bucks County Jury on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, of sexually assaulting a minor.
Richard Michael Frank, 51, was found guilty of indecent assault, endangering the welfare of a child and corrup...
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Posted on: November 23, 2021
This Thanksgiving Eve, 15 officers from 10 Bucks County Police Departments will participate in a DUI Traffic Patrol across the county.
The patrol campaign, “Make It to the Table: Don’t Drink and Drive this Thanksgiving Eve,” will stretch from Ben...
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Posted on: November 19, 2021
A former guard at the Bucks County Correctional Facility pleaded guilty on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, for his role in a drug smuggling ring inside the jail and was sentenced to two to four years in state prison.
Joseph J. Jennings, 33, of Warm...
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Posted on: November 18, 2021
A dozen relatives and friends of Eric Braxton and Arthur Hill spoke Thursday about the two “good and caring” men gunned down in a shooting rampage in October 2019 at a campground in upper Bucks County.
Braxton, 41, was a teach...
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Posted on: November 15, 2021
A Philadelphia man was convicted by a Bucks County jury on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, of two counts of first-degree murder for killing two men in October 2019 at a campground in upper Bucks County.
Miles K. Jones, 42, shot and killed Eric Braxton, 41...
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Posted on: November 15, 2021
A Philadelphia lawyer was sentenced Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, to 15 to 30 months in state prison for the theft of more than $980,000 from the estate of his cousin who had hired him as the executor of his will.
Aaron S. Friedmann, 63, of Conshohocken...
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Posted on: November 12, 2021
A Philadelphia man was sentenced Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, to 17 to 34 years in state prison for the shooting of a man at a Bristol Township basketball park in March 2019.
Taariq Alfons Norris, 26, pleaded guilty in August to attempted murder, aggra...
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Posted on: November 12, 2021
A 25-year-old man was charged on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, with supplying the drugs that led to a woman's overdose death in July at a Tullytown recovery house.
Matthew Derby Lavender, of Bensalem, was charged with drug delivery resulting ...
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Posted on: November 10, 2021
District Attorney Matt Weintraub ruled that the fatal shooting of a knife-wielding man on Aug. 29, 2021, by a Falls Township police officer was justified.
In a letter to Falls Township Police Chief Nelson Whitney, Weintraub wrote, “I ha...
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Posted on: October 29, 2021
On Thursday, Detective Jarrod Eisenhauer, with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, was honored by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the hard work of the Bucks County Detectives in taking down a large-scale drug trafficking ring t...
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Posted on: October 29, 2021
The Bensalem Police Department, with assistance from the Bucks County District Attorney’s office, is investigating a teacher’s aide who is also a junior varsity basketball coach at Bensalem High School, regarding allegations of inappro...
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Posted on: October 27, 2021
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office was recently awarded a grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency that will be used to prevent and reduce gun violence in Bucks County neighborhoods.
The Gun Violence Redu...
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Posted on: October 26, 2021
A 26-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to 7 ½ years to 20 years in state prison for shooting a former friend in an unprovoked assault in Falls Township in May 2020.
Jason Brennan, of Langhorne, was convicted in June by a Bucks County ...
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Posted on: October 25, 2021
A 41-year-old man who assaulted his ex-girlfriend and then repeatedly threatened, stalked, and harassed her, even while he was in Bucks County Correctional Facility, was sentenced Monday to 16 ½ years to 35 years to state prison.
Steve...
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Posted on: October 22, 2021
A free VIN etching event will be held at Thompson Lexus in Doylestown on Saturday, Oct. 30, through a partnership between the Thompson Auto Group and the District Attorney’s Auto Theft Prevention, Awareness and Education Program.
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Posted on: October 18, 2021
Starting today, Oct. 18, 2021, the District Court Diversion Program (DCDP) will expand its pilot DCDP Probation Program from 5 district courts to all 18 of them county-wide, allowing for the inclusion of additional participants who need drug treatment, bu...
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Posted on: October 15, 2021
A 38-year-old man was sentenced on Friday, Oct. 15, 2021, to 19 ½ to 39 years in a state prison for a high-speed drunk driving crash in December 2019 that killed a man and woman and seriously injured two others on I-95 in Bristol Township.&...
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Posted on: October 15, 2021
On Tuesday afternoon I was contacted by concerned citizens about the existence of a mock ballot drop box that was placed in Bristol Borough Hall, and which had accumulated six apparent absentee votes which were deposited inside of it. That box a...
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Posted on: October 14, 2021
A 41-year-old man is being charged with abuse of corpse after a man overdosed in his Bensalem Township apartment last month, and instead of calling for help, he wrapped the victim’s body with a rope and blanket and left him behind a red dumpster...
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Posted on: October 13, 2021
Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub announced the creation of a reward fund to help solve three killings in Bristol Township.
The reward through Bucks County Crime Stoppers was funded by donations from state Rep. John Galloway, state Re...
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Posted on: October 13, 2021
A man pleaded guilty Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, to the 2018 strangulation deaths of a young pregnant Bristol Township mother and her unborn child and was sentenced to 39 to 78 years in state prison.
Jaleel Lamar Loper, 30, of Philadelphia, admitte...
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Posted on: October 7, 2021
A Bensalem man who beat and choked his ex-girlfriend three different times in a seven-month period pleaded guilty on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, and was sentenced to two to four years in state prison.
Patrick Dando, 35, of Elmwood Avenue, pleaded gui...
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Posted on: October 6, 2021
A Middletown Township couple were convicted in absentia Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, in a case of child neglect one doctor described as the worst he’s ever seen.
Albert Dunkowski, 54, and Christine Dunkowski, 47, were convicted by a Bucks C...
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Posted on: October 1, 2021
A 61-year-old man is facing indecent assault and related charges for inappropriately touching an 11-year-old boy in Newtown Township in September.
Jeffrey Todd Lukens, of Buckingham Township, had been working as a contractor at the boy’...
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Posted on: September 24, 2021
A Levittown man who repeatedly stabbed a Lower Makefield Township man during an altercation two years ago was sentenced to 3 ½ to 7 years in state prison on Friday, September 24, 2021.
Zachary Ganie, 26, pleaded guilty on June 1 to aggravated as...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: September 23, 2021
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday, September 22, 2021, again upheld the death sentence of Robert Anthony Flor, convicted of killing Newtown Borough Police Officer Brian Gregg in 2005.
On Sept. 29. 2005, Flor was taken into custody for s...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: September 17, 2021
A Bucks County jury on Friday, September 17, 2021, found a 38-year-old man guilty of two counts of third-degree murder for a high-speed drunk driving crash in December 2019 that killed a man and woman and seriously injured two others on I-95 in Bristol To...
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Posted on: September 15, 2021
Reps. Craig Staats (R-Bucks) and Chris Quinn (R-Delaware) announced the introduction of a legislative package to better protect children in the Pennsylvania child welfare system. The bills are crafted in honor of Grace Packer, a 14-year-old girl who was m...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: September 8, 2021
A Bucks County man charged with killing his girlfriend two months ago in a Falls Township motel was ordered to stand trial during a preliminary hearing on Wednesday, September 8, 2021.
Evan Marquis Smith, 37, of Morrisville, appeared via video before Magis...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: September 7, 2021
The leader of a methamphetamine ring taken down in a joint Drug Strike Force investigation last year was sentenced on Tuesday, September 7, 2021, to nine to 20 years in a state prison.
Gary Lynn Moyer, 72, of Dublin, ran the operation out of his ...
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Posted on: September 4, 2021
On Friday, Sept. 3, a dozen Bucks County law enforcement agencies and state police held a checkpoint on both northbound and southbound lanes of Easton Road in Warrington, leading to several arrests.
The checkpoint, which ran from 10 p.m. to 3 a....
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District Attorney News
Posted on: September 1, 2021
A 24-year-old man was charged Tuesday with homicide by vehicle and related charges for causing a fatal crash on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021 where he crossed into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on with another vehicle in Doylestown Township.
Paul Sy...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: August 31, 2021
A 24-year-old man charged with shooting Yardley Police Chief Joseph Kelly earlier this month was ordered to face attempted murder and related charges in Bucks County Court of Common Pleas, Magisterial District Judge Corryn L. Kronnagel ruled during a prel...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: August 29, 2021
The Bucks County District Attorney's Office is investigating an officer-involved shooting in Falls Township on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021.
Falls Township Police were dispatched to a residence in the 400 block of Federal Lane at 12:04 p.m. on ...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: August 25, 2021
A 43-year-old man pleaded guilty on Wednesday, August 25, 2021, to a hit-and-run crash of two pedestrians, one who suffered serious injuries, on New Year’s Day 2021 in Bensalem Township.
Almondo Merjia, of Bensalem, was sentenced to 2 ½...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: August 24, 2021
A 29-year-old Philadelphia man pleaded guilty on Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, to charges related to a 2019 arrest following a Bensalem Police investigation that netted five pounds of marijuana, a stolen .40-caliber handgun and more than $33,000 in cash.&nbs...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: August 20, 2021
A man who was killed in a fatal officer-involved shooting in Philadelphia on Wednesday, August 18, 2021, had earlier shot a man in Middletown Township who was attempting to help the victim of a domestic assault.
Officers with the Middletown Town...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: August 19, 2021
A 24-year-old man was arraigned Wednesday night on attempted murder and related charges for shooting Yardley Police Chief Joseph Kelly who was assisting a Bucks County probation officer on an offender check at the Yardley Commons Condominiums.
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District Attorney News
Posted on: August 12, 2021
A 26-year-old man was sentenced on Wednesday, August 11, 2021, to 3 ½ to 7 years in state prison for the dissemination of child pornography.
Kenneth Richard Roberts III, of Falls Township, pleaded guilty on April 22, 2021, to dissemina...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: August 11, 2021
A Philadelphia man pleaded guilty on Wednesday, August 11, 2021, to attempted murder for his role in a shooting at a Bristol Township basketball park in March 2019.
Taariq Alfons Norris, 26, pleaded guilty to attempted murder, aggravated assault...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: August 5, 2021
This Saturday, the Bensalem Business Directory will be hosting the Bill Wasylenko Jr. Memorial Car Show at Bensalem High School, 4319 Hulmeville Road.
The car show will be on Saturday, Aug. 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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District Attorney News
Posted on: August 3, 2021
Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub visited several locations in the county Tuesday as those who protect and serve our communities hosted National Night Out events.
National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promot...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: July 27, 2021
A man who was charged in June for sexually extorting and harassing six victims now faces 40 additional charges after nine more victims have been identified.
Ian Pisarchuk, 26, of the 3600 block of Skyline Drive, Bensalem Township, was charged Tu...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: July 26, 2021
Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub:
"The Bucks County District Attorney's Office is aware of the investigation and arrest of CBRPD Corporal Clifford Horn in Atlantic County, New Jersey. Our office has assigned p...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: July 23, 2021
For 44 years, a gold ring that spells out the word “Love” sat in a Bucks County Detectives evidence locker. The ring, with a diamond chip in the center of the letter “O,” was among the crime scene evidence from one ...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: July 23, 2021
A Bristol man who repeatedly stabbed his estranged wife during a brutal attack in August was sentenced Thursday to 22 to 46 years in state prison.
Walter Joseph Vandoren Jr., 44, of Bristol Township, had pleaded guilty in May to attempted homicid...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: July 22, 2021
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office Drug Strike Force arrested a correctional officer on Tuesday, July 20, 2021, for smuggling suboxone strips into the Bucks County Correctional Facility.
Anthony Louis Miller, 28, of Quakertown,...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: July 16, 2021
A Falls Township teacher’s aide was charged Thursday, July 15, 2021, with having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student.
Jennilynne M. Derolf, 38, was charged with felony counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, statu...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: July 9, 2021
A Bucks County jury found a New York couple guilty on Friday, July 9, 2021, of assaulting a 17-year-old Sesame Place employee last summer, leaving the teen with several injuries, including a broken jaw.
Troy McCoy, 40, of Bronx, N.Y., was found g...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: July 8, 2021
A Penndel Borough man was found guilty Wednesday, July 7, 2021, on all charges related to the sexual assault of five boys from 1993 to 2010.
In a waiver trial that began on Tuesday, Common Pleas Judge Diane E. Gibbons ruled that Louis Charles Aie...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: July 7, 2021
The Bucks County hunter who shot and killed 18-year-old Jason Albert Kutt at Nockamixon State Park in October pleaded guilty on Wednesday, June 7, 2021, and was sentenced to seven to 20 years in state prison.
Kenneth Troy Heller, 52, of Warminste...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: July 6, 2021
A Bucks County man arrested last week in the brutal domestic assault of his 39-year-old girlfriend is now facing a homicide charge after the victim died on Sunday.
Evan Marquis Smith, 37, of Morrisville, was charged last week with Aggravated Assa...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: July 2, 2021
On Friday, July 2nd District Attorney Matt Weintraub announced the arrest of a Bucks County man in connection to a domestic assault that has left a 39 year old woman clinging to life.
Late on Thursday, police were dispatched to 201 Lincoln Highw...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: July 1, 2021
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office and the Bristol Township Police Department are asking for the public’s help in identifying and locating the hit-and-run-driver who struck and killed a 53-year-old bicyclist in the 5500 block ...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: June 28, 2021
Bucks County prosecutors presented sufficient evidence Monday to send all charges against former Warminster Township police officer James Carey, accused of sexually assaulting five teen boys, to the Court of Common Pleas.
Carey, 53, of Cape May C...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: June 23, 2021
A 36-year-old man awaiting trial for robbing and kidnapping a man in Upper Southampton Township in March is now facing attempted homicide charges for that crime. He is also being charged in Philadelphia with killing a man in the city, less than a week bef...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: June 18, 2021
A 21-year-old man was charged Friday with possessing several videos and images of child pornography, which he shared on an instant messaging app.
Brendon Vladimir Lauff, of Bristol Township, was charged with dissemination of photo or film of chil...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: June 17, 2021
District Attorney Matt Weintraub announced Thursday, June 17, 2021, that two New Jersey brothers will be charged with killing a man found dead in Richland Township.
Anthony Joel Gamble, 19, and Joshua David Gamble, 17, both of Somerset, N.J., are...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: January 28, 2021
A Montgomery County woman is being charged with delivering the drugs that caused the June 2020 overdose death of a 33-year-old Bensalem man.
Corrine Marie Smith, 42, of Jenkintown, is facing charges of drug delivery resulting in death, criminal u...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: May 28, 2021
Former Warminster Township police officer James Carey was charged this week with sexually assaulting a fifth teenage boy while working as a DA.R.E. officer more than two decades ago.
Carey, 52, of Cape May Court House in New Jersey, was arrested on April 7...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: May 26, 2021
Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub:
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office has cooperated and worked with Montgomery County authorities since being made aware of the investigation into Matthew Reiss. This offic...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: May 24, 2021
A 32-year-old woman was sentenced Wednesday to four to 23 months in county jail for submitting a series of false auto insurance claims over the past few years that defrauded two auto insurance companies of almost $40,000.
Shaminga L. Davis, of Mo...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: May 14, 2021
A 50-year-old Chalfont woman was ordered Friday, May 14, 2021 to face trial for harassing three teens on her daughter’s cheerleading squad.
Raffaela Spone was charged in early March following an investigation by the Hilltown Township Po...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: May 13, 2021
A Bristol man who repeatedly stabbed his estranged wife in August pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted homicide and related charges.
Walter Joseph Vandoren Jr., 44, of Bristol Township, appeared before Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey L. Finley and pl...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: January 28, 2021
A Bucks County resident received a phone call today telling him his personal information was being used out of state with the caller ID showing that the call came from the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office.
The call did not come from this o...
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District Attorney News
Posted on: January 28, 2021
Recently, Bucks County Detective Tim Campbell was designated a Certified Insurance Fraud Investigator (CIFI) with the International Association of Special Investigative Units (IASIU).
The Certified Insurance Fraud Investigator program is an accr...
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