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Lancaster, PA
Police & Fire
Officers Assaulted By 'Belligerent' Man At PA Target, Police Say
A man "fighting with customers" outside a shopping plaza assaulted officers who came to investigate on Sunday, police claim. Anthony Belfere was found lying on the ground "yelling profanities" outside the Target at 1008 Lititz Pike, around 11:46 a.m. on Aug. 13, Northern Lancaster County Regional police announced the following day. Officers recognized Belfere "from previous encounters," as stated in the release. As the police approached him he "became belligerent," and "appeared to be under the influence of drugs and or alcohol," the police said. When the officers attemp…
Bethlehem, PA
Police & Fire
Cops Attacked By Homeowner In Poconos: Authorities
A Pocono Township man attacked police officers after he called them to his Scotrun home last week, according to authorities. Thirty-nine-year-old Jacob Jones Sr. called 911 around 3 p.m. on Wednesday, July 5, and told dispatchers that his guns had been stolen, Pocono Township police said in a release. When they arrived, officers learned that Jones had actually "voluntarily relinquished" the firearms to family members "at an earlier date," the department wrote. Jones, authorities claimed, "was highly intoxicated" and advised by officers to stay home for the rest of the nig…
Hampden-Silver Spring, PA
Police & Fire
Drunk Central PA Prostitute Nabbed After Bike Fall: Police
A bicyclist and convicted prostitute has been charged after she was seen falling off her bicycle in Carlisle, police announced on Thursday, June 15, 2023. Jennifer Anna Maschmeyer, 53, was spotted falling off of her bicycle in the 100 block of North Pitt Street on June 1, 2023, the police said. The observing police officers "suspected (her) to be manifestly under the control of alcohol or a controlled substance," as stated in the release. Maschmeyer was arrested and charged with Public Drunkenness, according to the police. She was searched before being taken to Cum…
Hampden-Silver Spring, PA
Police & Fire
Officer Assaulted In Third Patient Attack At Hospital In PA, Police Say
A police officer was hurt in the third assault incident at the same Central Pennsylvania hospital involving a patient. Brian James Estright, 47, of Enola was arrested following a disturbance in the 600 block of North Enola Road at 7:42 p.m. on May 18, 2023, East Pennsboro Township police announced on June 7, 2023. "Estright was intoxicated and appeared to be under the influence of a controlled substance," the police explained. He "was taken to the ground" after he resisted arrest so an ambulance was called to the scene, according to the release. While at Penn …
Bethlehem, PA
Police & Fire
Stroller-Pushing Lehigh Valley Man Exposed Self To Juvenile, Police Claim
A Northampton County man is charged with indecent exposure after authorities say he revealed himself to a juvenile outside a beer store. Slate Belt Regional Police were called to a gas station in Plainfield Township for "suspicious activity" around 3 p.m. on Friday, May 19, the department wrote in a release. Dispatchers were told of a "tall, balding man, pushing a stroller who had exposed himself to a juvenile," authorities wrote. Officers arrived to find 50-year-old Louis W. Coopersmith at a nearby beer distributor, where he was "determined to be manifestly under the inf…
Bristol, PA
Police & Fire
Montco Woman Charged In Doylestown Assault
A Montgomery County woman is charged with assault after police say they saw her fighting another in Doylestown over the weekend. It happened on Saturday, May 20, Central Bucks Regional Police wrote in a statement. Authorities said they approached the scene and saw 21-year-old Morgan Cashman "holding the victim's shirt and striking the victim in the face." Witnesses told police that the victim tried to walk away from Cashman, but that the 21-year-old began "punching and kicking" them. The victim was taken to Doylestown Hospital where they were treated for "several" lacerations to the f…
West Chester, PA
Police & Fire
Warrant Out For 'Jackass' Star Bam Margera Out Of PA In 2nd Run-In With Police This Month
"Jackass" star Brandon "Bam" Margera is being sought by Pennsylvania State Police on a warrant in connection with a physical fight that happened over the weekend. The 43-year-old stuntman and pro skateboarder apparently ran into a wooded area before police arrived at the scene of a "disturbance" around 11 a.m. Sunday, April 23, on the 400 block of Hickory Hill Road in Pocopson Township, PA State Police said. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 610-268-2022. Earlier this month, Margera was charged with public drunkenness for an incident in a California parking lot.
Bristol, PA
Police & Fire
Shoeless Burglar Sprayed Fire Extinguisher In Bucks Home, Police Claim
A Massachusetts man was arrested in Bucks County over the weekend after police claim he drunkenly entered a stranger's home and made a mess with a fire extinguisher. It happened in Doylestown on Sunday, April 9, wrote Central Bucks Regional Police in a release. Officers were called to a home on the 100 block of Garden Alley for a reported burglary in progress. There, the homeowner said he had returned from a short walk to find "fire extinguisher powder" all over the floor of his home, authorities said. He checked downstairs after hearing a noise from the basement and found a str…
Bethlehem, PA
Police & Fire
Arby's Indecent Exposure Incident Leads To DUI Driver's Arrest In Lehigh Valley: Police
A DUI Pennsylvania man who tried getting into a closed Arby's restaurant was arrested after urinating in the parking lot where he exposed himself, police said. Charles J. Visaggi was unsteady on his feet, was slurring his speech and seemed disoriented while trying to gain entry into the Arby's in Wind Gap last December, local police said. Slate Belt Regional Police officers found Visaggi at a nearby Wendy's operating a vehicle, authorities said. Visaggi, displaying signs of impairment, was found to be incapable of safely operating a motor vehicle, according to police. He was taken int…
Hampden-Silver Spring, PA
News
Man Coming At Troopers With Many Knives Shot: PA State Police
A man with "multiple knives" was shot at by multiple Pennsylvania State Troopers on on April 5, 2023, at 4:43 am, the Pennsylvania State Police announced later that morning. Thomas Edward Conroy, 43, of Uniontown came out of a home at 233 Amend Road in Georges Township with the knives following a domestic dispute, PSP said. Police were already outside the home as they were called to the reported dispute, so they opened fire. Conroy was struck and transported to a local hospital. He is in stable condition, as stated in the release. The Troop B Major Case Team is inves…
West Chester, PA
Police & Fire
PA's Bam Margera Charged With Public Drunkenness In California, Challenges Knoxville To Fight
One-time "Jackass" star and West Chester native Bam Margera was arrested in southern California last week on charges of public drunkenness, according to police records. In online arrest records, Burbank police say that Margera, 43 — whose real name is Brandon — arrived at a restaurant in the city to meet his family around 5:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday, March 29. Margera "arrived intoxicated" and was later arrested on charges of public drunkenness, the records claim. In a video from the restaurant obtained by TMZ, he appears to shout and stomp his feet before police arrive.&n…
West Chester, PA
Police & Fire
Chesco Man Had Drugs Stashed In Pen Cap, Cops Claim
A Chester County man is accused of having drugs stored away in the cap of a pen when he was arrested early this year, say authorities. Police in Kennett Square were patrolling near the corner of West South Street and Harvey Circle just after midnight on Sunday, Jan. 15, when they noticed a man laying on the ground, the department said. Officers made contact with the man, 45-year-old Octavio Duran-Zavala, who they said "stated he was intoxicated and admitted to consuming alcohol. Police said they tried to bring Duran-Zavala back to his house, but that they were "unable to make co…
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