Posted on: September 20, 2019
A Lancaster woman was recently sentenced for bringing her 6-year-old child to a home occupied by three registered sex offenders.
Tabetha L. Mitchell repeatedly brought her child to the Manor Street home where her boyfriend lived, along with two other men r...
Sept. 20, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: September 19, 2019
A Florida man was recently convicted of sexual abuse against four children in Lancaster County over a period of 20 years, starting in 1984.
Tony Cruz was convicted of numerous felonies, including several counts of rape of a child, following a three-day tri...
Sept. 19, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: September 16, 2019
A pair of Lancaster County heroin dealers were recently sentenced to state prison terms for providing fentanyl-laced heroin that caused the overdose deaths of two men.
The investigations were separate and not related. Both men were determined to be dealers...
Sept. 16, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: September 13, 2019
Prosecutors have filed a notice of intent to seek death sentences against a man charged with killing his sister and niece in a Lancaster home in July.
James Sterbinsky is charged with two counts of criminal homicide regarding the stabbing deaths of the wom...
Sept. 13, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: September 12, 2019
A Lancaster man was recently convicted of sending hundreds of lewd texts to whom he believed to be a 15-year-old girl – then attempting to meet the “girl” at a location in Lancaster city.
A private citizen’s work &am...
Sept. 12, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: September 11, 2019
A New Holland man was recently convicted of threatening to bring a gun to a local retirement community and shoot after he was denied volunteer work at the facility.
A Lancaster County jury deliberated about 20 minutes before finding 66-year-old Mark Winger...
Sept. 11, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: September 6, 2019
Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman announced Thursday recent happenings in the unsolved murder of Lindy Sue Biechler, found killed in her Manor Township home in 1975.
Biechler was 19 when she was stabbed to death in her Kloss Drive apartment....
Sept. 6, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: September 3, 2019
A Lancaster man will serve up to 15 years in prison for providing a fentanyl-laced heroin batch that caused a Conestoga Township man’s death.
Jose O. Morillo, 30, had pleaded guilty to felony counts of drug delivery resulting in death and crimina...
Sept. 3, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: August 29, 2019
A group of Lancaster County School Resource Officers and school administrators recently gathered to discuss threat assessment, what prompts students to perpetrate targeted violence, and how to reach students who might be in turmoil.
Deb McCoy, a Student As...
Aug. 29, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: August 26, 2019
A habitual offender was sentenced Monday in Lancaster County Court for drag racing last year when he caused a three-vehicle crash that killed a teenager and seriously injured the victim’s teenage passenger.
Kristopher Martinez-Roman was driving about 65 mi...
Aug. 26, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: August 23, 2019
Nine volunteers became members of Youth Aid Panels this week and will begin serving alongside law enforcement in three Lancaster County communities.
The volunteers were honored as certified members at a graduation ceremony Tuesday at the Lancaster County C...
Aug. 23, 2019
District Attorney
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 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 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: 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 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: 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 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: 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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