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Reading, PA
Police & Fire
PD: SWAT Standoff Ends In Arrest Of Berks County Man Who Allegedly Threatened Wife With Gun
A 36-year-old man was in custody Friday morning after a nearly 5-hour standoff with police in Berks County that began Thursday night, authorities said. Sean M. Butler Jr. had allegedly assaulted and threatened his wife with a firearm inside a home on the 2200 block of Spring Street in Spring Township around 10 p.m, according to Deputy Chief of the Spring Police Department, Stephen Powell. With a crisis negotiation team on the scene, police talked to Butler Jr. through the phone, in an attempt to get him to surrender, Powell said. After Butler refused to surrender, police created a dis…
Reading, PA
Police & Fire
Reading Fire Leaves Man Critical
A fire that tore through a Reading apartment building left one man critical Wednesday night. Crews removed the man and helped three others out of the building on the 100 block of South Sixth Street around 10 p.m. Posted by Keith Talarigo on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 Issues with a hydrant were reported, and a long hose was run from one on Franklin Street, WFMZ reports. Posted by Keith Talarigo on Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Allentown, PA
Police & Fire
MontCo Man, 22, Allegedly Raped Sleeping Woman In Allentown Home, Report Says
A 22-year-old Montgomery County man was arrested on accusations he raped a woman while she was asleep in her Allentown (Lehigh County) home, according to a recent news report. The victim told authorities the morning of April 17 she’d had a few friends over the night before for drinks and board games, WFMZ reports citing a criminal complaint. She was unconscious on a bed in her basement, when she allegedly felt Dante M. Morrone, of Souderton, laying behind her and pulling her close to him, the news outlet says citing court records. Morrone is charged with single felony c…
Bristol, PA
Police & Fire
Authorities ID Teen Victim In Fiery Quakertown Crash
Authorities have identified the victim in a fiery crash in Quakertown (Bucks County) Sunday night, according to a recent news report. Makalya Smith, 17, of Quakertown, was heading northbound in a silver Toyota coupe on John Fries Highway in the left lane toward the Weiss Road intersection when she crossed the raised concrete traffic island and drove into oncoming traffic just after 10 p.m., according to WFMZ and Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Nathan Branosky. That's when the girl struck a 2013 Chevrolet Silverado heading southbound in the left lane of John Fries Highway, head-on in …
Bristol, PA
Police & Fire
Authorities ID 3 Dead, 1 Airlifted In Bucks County Crash
Authorities have identified the three people who died and fourth seriously injured in a fiery Bucks County crash Friday. Two cars each carrying two people crashed at 1542 Mountainview Drive in Haycock Township around 11:40 p.m., Pennsylvania State Police said. The vehicles caught fire after crashing head-on. WFMZ identified the four victims citing the Bucks County Coroner's Office. Those individuals include: The driver of a Chevrolet Equinox, a 26-year-old man from Ossining, NY was airlifted with serious injuries. His passenger, Samantha Garcia, 24 of Rockaway, NJ, died at the sc…
Reading, PA
Police & Fire
1 Injured In Late Night Reading Shooting
One person was injured following a shooting into a home in Reading late Thursday night, according to a recent news report. The gunfire was reported around 10:40 p.m. at a home in the 1300 block of Good Street, according to WFMZ. The individual suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police told the outlet. Anyone with information can call the Reading Police Criminal Investigations Division, at 610-655-6246. Click here for the initial report by WFMZ.
Allentown, PA
Police & Fire
Route 22 Reopens After Pair Of Multi-Vehicle Crashes Close Westbound Lanes In Lehigh Valley
Route 22 has reopened after a pair of multi-vehicle crashes closed westbound lanes in the Lehigh Valley Friday morning, authorities said. Route 22 westbound was closed between 15th Street and Cedar Crest Boulevard after five vehicles reportedly crashed around 9:40 a.m. between MacArthur Road and Cedar Crest Boulevard, PA State Police told WFMZ. The vehicles involved a dump truck, two cars, a tractor-trailer cab, and a work van, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Nathan Branosky told WFMZ. Multi vehicle crash SR 22 W/B MM 320.1, S.Whitehall Twp, Lehigh Co. All lanes currently closed. E…
Bethlehem, PA
News
Bethlehem Family Displaced By House Fire Days Before Wedding
A Bethlehem couple is scrambling to make ends meet after a fire destroyed their family’s condo — and all of its contents — just days before they were set to get married. The three-alarm fire broke out and spread across six condominiums on the 100 block of Independence Court in Bethlehem Township Monday afternoon, WFMZ reports. No physical injuries were reported; however, Alex Herman — who was preparing to marry her fiancee, Ryan, on Friday — now has the difficult task of replacing her wedding gown, which was one of countless personal items destroyed in the fire at her childhood home. “Ever…
Reading, PA
Police & Fire
Reading Police Probe Pair Of Shootings That Left Man Dead, Woman Injured
Reading police are investigating a pair of shootings that left one man dead and a 22-year-old woman injured in less than 24 hours, according to a recent news report. The man was found around 7:45 p.m., Monday night at South Seventh and Pine Streets, WFMZ reports citing local police. The details of the shooting were not immediately known. The shooting is the second to break out in the Reading area in less than 24 hours, as a 22-year-old woman was reportedly shot in the back while sleeping in her second-floor bedroom at a home in the 400 block of South 7th Steet around 3 a.m. Monday, Ca…
Reading, PA
Police & Fire
West Reading PD Deny Claims Of Active Shooter On Reading Hospital Campus
West Reading police have denied claims that reported there was an active shooter on the Reading Hospital campus Monday evening. Police were dispatched to the Reading Hospital doctor's office building on South Seventh Avenue for a report of someone who had been shot, West Reading police said. The victim -- who was shot in a hotel parking lot in Spring Township --was mistakenly taken to the Doctor's Office building when they should have been taken to the emergency department, police said. Police confirm there was no shooting on the hospital campus, nor was anyone in danger. A second shootin…
Reading, PA
Police & Fire
Body Found On Schuylkill River May Be Career Criminal Chad Blackston, Reports Say
Authorities have identified the body found along the banks of the Schuylkill River as that of 49-year-old Chad Blackston, of Hamburg. Blackston's lifeless body was discovered around 11 a.m. Sunday off Hill Drive in Tilden Township, according to WFMZ. It was not immediately clear if this was the same Chad Blackston who in 2014 fled to the Schuylkill River while running from police, on accusations he robbed a cab driver. The incident caused a lockdown of area schools as police worked for nearly an hour to coax Blackston from the water. No further information was available as the death …
Reading, PA
Police & Fire
Berks Man Already Charged With Homicide Stabs 2 Lehigh County Jail Corrections Officers
A 23-year-old Berks County man charged with homicide in relation to a shooting last August in Reading reportedly stabbed two corrections officers on March 9 at Lehigh County Jail in Allentown, according to LehighValleyLive. Mohnton native, Joewel Keita, who is now being housed in Berks County Prison, was charged Thursday with four counts of aggravated assault in the stabbing, according to court documents obtained by LehighValleyLive. Keita reportedly had a homemade knife but Lehigh County Jail staff members failed to find it in a search of his cell while Keita was on a recreation break the …
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