Monday, February 4, 2013
Jefran Canales-Tapia and Luis Armando Santiago-Nieves are charged with killing and robbing a 39-year-old man in the Wynnewood Apartments in South Allentown near the Salisbury Township border.
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Monday, February 4
Editor's note: The victim has been identified as Edgardo Fuentes Rosado, 39, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney's Office. The office issued the following news release on Tuesday: Court records identified the victim of an Allentown shooting on Feb. 3, 2013, as Sasiain Olivio Hessed. Multiple forms of identification, including a U.S. passport, were found in the Emmaus Avenue, Allentown, apartment where the shooting took place. Those documents identified the victim as Sasiain Olivio Hessed. After talking to family members, law enforcement authorities were informed that the victim’s name is Edgardo Fuentes Rosado. The Lehigh County District Attorney's office issued the following news release on Monday: Two Allentown men have been…
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
April Saul and Daniel Rivera of Pottstown face criminal charges after allegedly taking their seriously ill daughter from Lehigh Valley Hospital without permission, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney's office.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The parents of a seriously ill infant were charged Wednesday with endangering the welfare of a child for removing their daughter from Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest against medical advice in October, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney's office. April Saul, 42, and Daniel Rivera, 43, of 319 Chestnut St., Apt. 2, Pottstown, were also charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly using obscene language in the pediatric intensive care unit of LVH and engaging in “tumultuous behavior in view of extremely ill children, family and medical persons,” according to a prepared release. Salisbury Township police were called to the hospital Oct. 23 to investigate a report of a baby abduction. The charges were filed after an …
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Friday, October 5, 2012
Lehigh County investigators found 10 brick-shaped packages of cocaine and $10,000 in cash in vehicles owned by Alberto Mercedes of Homestead, Fla., and Jose Manuel Martinez of Houston, Texas.
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Friday, October 5, 2012
A Florida man and a Texas man were charged Oct. 2 with possession with intent to deliver 10 kilos of cocaine after a search of two vehicles in Allentown, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney's office. Alberto Mercedes, 47, of Homestead, Fla., and Jose Manuel Martinez, 58, of Houston, Texas, also were charged with a first-degree felony of conspiracy, according to a press release issued by the DA's office. Mercedes and Martinez were arraigned and denied bail. The two men were charged after an investigation was initiated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Field Division and the DEA Allentown Resident Office. An affidavit of probable cause alleges the following: "At about 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 2, police and agents …
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Lawyers for Bryan and David Freeman of Salisbury Township, who are serving mandatory life sentences for the 1995 beating and slaying of their parents and brother, say the sentences violate their clients' constitutional rights because they were juveniles.
Nearly three months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders are unconstitutional, Bryan and David Freeman of Salisbury Township are challenging their 1995 life sentences for brutally beating and stabbing to death their parents and younger brother when they were teens. The commonwealth of Pennsylvania has filed a motion to stay the Freeman brothers' sentence pending a decision by the state Legislature on how to deal with juveniles convicted of homicide. A hearing will be held today in Lehigh County Court in front of Judge Douglas Reichley. Charles Banta, the attorney representing David Freeman, now 33, filed a petition under the Post Conviction Relief Act, arguing his client's mandatory life …
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Friday, March 30, 2012
The Lehigh County district attorney says Glenn Eckhart's position as controller might not be legal because he didn't wait two years after resigning as commissioner.
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Friday, March 30, 2012
Lehigh County District Attorney James B. Martin has legally challenged County Controller Glenn Eckhart's right to hold his elected position, the district attorney's office said Friday in a news statement. Martin says Eckhart violated the County Code of Pennsylvania because he did not wait two years after he resigned as a county commissioner before assuming the office of controller, which is stipulated under the law. The civil action says Eckhart, of Salisbury Township, resigned as county commissioner on Dec. 30, 2011, a post he held for six years. Eckhart was elected county controller on Nov. 8, 2011 and assumed the office on Jan. 2, 2012. “The public policy reason behind the Code’s prohibition is to ensure that a controller is not in a …
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Brothers Angel Miguel Vargas and George Washington were charged in more than 100 burglaries and attempted burglaries in five counties.
Angel Miguel Vargas, the Allentown man charged along with his brother in more than 100 burglaries and attempted burglaries, waived his charges Tuesday to Lehigh County Court. The hearing for Vargas’ brother, George Washington, was continued. Vargas, 30, and Washington, 28, who lived at 318 N. Second St., Allentown, were charged in a string of burglaries and attempted burglaries of businesses in a five-county area over 15 months, including businesses in Salisbury Township. Among the other locations were businesses in South Whitehall, Lower Macungie, Upper Macungie, Bethlehem, Upper Saucon and Lower Nazareth townships, Bethlehem and Coopersburg. Other locations were in Hanover Township in Lehigh County and Hanover Township in Northampton …
jamie
11:45 pm on Monday, April 1, 2013
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