Posted on: August 21, 2019
A Lancaster County man convicted of killing a woman and her daughter because they were potential witnesses in his pending sexual assault case was granted no relief this week from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The appellate court found nothing to overturn...
Aug. 21, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: August 20, 2019
A registered sex offender was recently jailed up to 30 years for his second conviction of illegal contact with a child.
Justin M. Mayfield, 37, pleaded guilty to several felonies, including unlawful contact with a minor and failure to register under Megan&...
Aug. 20, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: August 16, 2019
A New York man was sentenced to prison for groping a woman last year at Root’s Country Market.
Zhong Wu Shan was escorted from Lancaster County Court in handcuffs Wednesday when he was sentenced to one to 23 months in prison for misdemeanor indec...
Aug. 16, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: August 15, 2019
The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office will co-host a pair of trainings in September for businesses and faith-based organizations on how to minimize devastation from armed intruder incidents.
The DA’s Office and Pa South Centra...
Aug. 15, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: August 13, 2019
A Lancaster man will serve up to 30 years in prison for his role in a large-scale fentanyl/heroin operation – and he could be facing additional penalties.
Antonio J. Rivera, 28, was on state and federal parole when he was charged last year in the Lancaster...
Aug. 13, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: August 12, 2019
Homicide charges were filed Thursday regarding the May 30 shooting death of Tyreek Gardner.
Lancaster city police charged two men with Gardner’s killing, the first of three homicides in a three-week span in the city.
In early July, the Lancaster C...
Aug. 12, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: August 7, 2019
An editorial from the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office:
A prosecutor’s mission is to protect the community, and that protection duty extends to providing offenders the means and opportunity to rehabilitate and move past their crime(s)....
Aug. 7, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: August 5, 2019
Fake prescriptions pills – which are actually pressed fentanyl tablets – recently caused four overdose deaths in a day in California.
The pills have also made their way to other parts of the country, including Lancaster County.
The pure ...
Aug. 5, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: July 31, 2019
A 17-year boy is charged with third-degree murder regarding a fatal shooting Monday night in Columbia.
Antonio Acosta, of Columbia, was arraigned Tuesday morning and remanded to Lancaster County Prison.
Nicholas Mills, 19, was pronounced dead Monday night a...
July 31, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: July 26, 2019
A Lancaster man will serve up to 12 years in prison for robbing eight city stores, at gunpoint, over two months last year.
Rayvonne Perez-Acosta was 17 when he brandished a stolen gun to store employees, demanded money and fled with cash during the robberi...
July 26, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: July 24, 2019
A Lancaster man will serve up to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman who was sleeping in a Manheim home.
Jordan A. Mayes, 24, was convicted at trial in April of four felonies and two misdemeanors regarding the June 10, 2017, incident at a ho...
July 24, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: July 22, 2019
The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office is announcing findings regarding an April 27, 2019, incident in Lancaster city that resulted in the death of Tony Torrellas. Torrellas was shot after entering a home in the 500 block of South Queen...
July 22, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: July 10, 2019
Christina Reichard can still feel the heat of July 3 – 17 years ago.
Lancaster city residents were on their porches, in the streets and on the sidewalks, excitement of the approaching holiday...
July 10, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: July 9, 2019
A Berks County woman will serve at least a few more months in prison for endangering her newborn child by giving birth in a Warwick Township bathroom.
Emmanuella Osei, 24, was sentenced Monday morning in Lancaster County Court on a felony count of endanger...
July 9, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: July 8, 2019
There has been a spike in vehicle thefts, and thefts of what’s inside vehicles in Lancaster County.
Law enforcement is offering simple advice to vehicle owners so they do not become victims:
LOCK YOUR VEHICLES AND DO NOT KEEP VALUABLES INSIDE THEM...
July 8, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: July 3, 2019
There has been “significant progress” and “persons of interest” identified regarding recent homicides in Lancaster city, but law enforcement is asking the public to speak up and help move along the investigations.
Th...
July, 3, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: July 1, 2019
A Lancaster Township man was convicted Friday of more than two dozen charges regarding sustained beatings, sexual abuse and imprisonment of four children.
Donald A. Moyer, 63, will be sentenced after a background investigation is completed in a couple mont...
July 1, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: June 26, 2019
Lancaster County’s new First Assistant District Attorney aspires to visit the birthplaces, homes and gravesites of every United States President – he’s about halfway through the list.
Millard Fillmore’s birthplace in...
June 26, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: June 25, 2019
A Lancaster man will serve up to nine years in prison for randomly carjacking a vehicle, nearly striking the occupants as he drove off, then fleeing police – striking a vehicle and attempting to enter homes in the process.
Stephan M. Frey, 35, wi...
June 25, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: June 17, 2019
The four men convicted of beating a man unconscious on Christmas morning 2015 outside a Lancaster bar will not get lesser sentences or new trials, according to recently rulings by a state appellate court.
The former owner of Molly’s Pub, Anthony ...
June 17, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: June 12, 2019
A Lancaster man will serve up to 10 years in prison for selling fentanyl-laced heroin last year in a city alley.
Jerome Johnson, 32, pleaded guilty to felony counts of delivery of fentanyl and criminal use of a communication facility (a cellphone) regardin...
June 12, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: June 11, 2019
A Middletown man was convicted of threatening staff at a Lititz area hospital – his claims including a “biker gang” assault - causing the facility to lockdown for several hours.
A Lancaster County jury convicted 49-year-old Do...
June 11, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: June 7, 2019
A Manheim Township man will serve up to a decade prison for possessing and sharing child pornography.
Timothy Wolf recently pleaded guilty in Lancaster County Court to five felonies regarding an investigation last year that involved the seizure of a comput...
May 7, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: June 3, 2019
A Lancaster man is charged with numerous offenses for fleeing police earlier this month in a stolen vehicle – driving across numerous municipalities before being arrested in Strasburg.
Jerell P. Stewart, 30, told police he knew the Chevy Avalanch...
June 3, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: May 24, 2019
A Lancaster man serving decades for killing a young father four years ago will not get a new trial, a local judge ruled this week.
Stefon Landing fatally shot 22-year-old Devonte Gantt during a drug robbery on a Lancaster city street on Jan. 4, 2015. Landi...
May 24, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: May 20, 2019
A Boot Camp program is available to select individuals sentenced, upon conviction, to a Pennsylvania state prison.
The State Correctional Institution program is similar to the military drill-and-routine format for which it is named.
About three-quarters of ...
May 20, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: May 15, 2019
A New York man was recently convicted in Lancaster County Court of groping a woman last year at Root’s Country Market.
Zhong Wu Shan, 38, will be sentenced on a misdemeanor indecent assault charge after a background investigation is completed, in...
May 15, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: May 3, 2019
A Lancaster man will serve up to five years in prison for posting court documents and other content on Facebook in attempts to intimidate an individual involved in the Eddie Cameron murder case.
Tyeke Holcomb pleaded guilty Wednesday to intimidation and cr...
May 3, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: May 2, 2019
A Lancaster man will serve up to 10 years in prison for beating a pregnant woman last year – a violation of his probation for a prior conviction of assaulting another woman.
Luis A. Betemit, 25, pleaded guilty to felony strangulation, aggravated ...
May 2, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: May 1, 2019
A Bedford County man will serve up to 11 years in prison for having 300 grams of methamphetamine and a loaded pistol with a round in the chamber last year in East Donegal Township.
Adam Lawson, a convicted felon, had the 9-mm pistol and the 11-ounce meth s...
May 1, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: April 30, 2019
As the national conversation continues about legalization of marijuana, we encourage all residents, leaders and legislators to be fully informed when taking a stance on the issue.
We offer some data-supported analysis of today’s marijuana, trends...
April 30, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: April 29, 2019
The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Thursday the arrests of 17 individuals and indictments of numerous people under “Operation Save Milton” – the sting named for a trafficking network that prompted increases in ove...
April 29, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: April 26, 2019
A Lancaster man serving life in prison for burning a man to death 20 years ago will not get a new trial, a local judge has ruled.
Derrick Burnside was convicted in 2004 of second-degree murder and related charges for the killing of James Bell.
On Dec. 22, 1...
April 26, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: April 24, 2019
A man‘s request for relief from consecutive life sentences for killing a pair of disabled brothers is “wholly frivolous,” a state appellate court has ruled.
Juan Cristo-Munoz pleaded guilty last year to two counts of first-deg...
April 24, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: April 16, 2019
A Lancaster man convicted of fleeing after causing a multi-vehicle crash that injured several school students will get no relief from a state appellate court.
James P. Irvin III was sentenced last year to 5 to 20 years in prison regarding his trial convict...
April 16, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: April 11, 2019
A Downingtown man will serve up to 8 years in prison for fleeing the scene after driving intoxicated and causing a crash last year in Lancaster County that seriously injured a woman.
Mark Harvey, 29, was illegally passing vehicles on Lincoln Highway East (...
April 11, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: April 10, 2019
What qualifies as effective and successful is subjective when discussing police practices at Lancaster County school districts – no district’s student body is like any other, so there is a variety of approaches employed across the coun...
April 10, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: April 1, 2019
A West Lampeter Township man was recently sentenced to 50 years of supervision for rape and other sexual abuse of a girl that went on for about 10 years.
Joseph Valentin Jr., 36, pleaded guilty to numerous felonies – including rape of a child - F...
April 1, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: March 28, 2019
A Lancaster man convicted of murdering a local school teacher was resentenced Wednesday, but the new terms are not likely to impact how much time he spends behind bars.
Marcus Rutter was originally sentenced to 54 to 109 years in prison for the 2014 killin...
March 28, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: January 25, 2019
A series of training courses hosted by digital forensics company Cellebrite will be held in comings months in Lancaster County.
The three multi-day courses will be at the Lancaster County Public Safety Training Center on Champ Boulevard in Manheim.
The cour...
Jan. 25, 2019
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