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CRIME & SAFETY
Coroner: Body wrapped in tarp found hidden in Johnstown home crawl space
Cambria County Coroner Jeff Lees said remains were found hidden in a crawl space in a Johnstown home after midnight Saturday morning. Lees said police were called for a welfare check at a home on the 100th block of Adams Street in Johnstown. He said when they arrived, they noticed a large number of flies on the inside of the windows, as well as a foul smell coming from the home.
'Something's going to happen'; Johnstown man allegedly threatens children with shotgun
A Cambria County man is behind bars after pointing a shotgun at his girlfriend's children and fleeing the scene Friday, police said. According to a criminal complaint, police were dispatched to a home on the 300 block of Oak Street in Johnstown after a woman called 911 saying that her boyfriend, later identified as Christopher Paige, 52, had a gun on him and that she was afraid he was going to shoot her, and that he had pointed the shotgun at her children.
Body of missing swimmer recovered from the Delaware River
DELAWARE WATER GAP NATIONAL RECREATION AREA – The body of 24-year-old Jeysson Ariel Osorio-Reyes of Jackson Township was recovered on Saturday at 7:00 p.m. from the waters of the Delaware River near Milford Beach within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, according to the National Park Service. Osorio-Reyes...
Preliminary hearing to be held for fratricide homicide suspect
WILKES-BARRE — A Jackson Township man once deemed incompetent to face a criminal homicide charge for the fatal shooting of his brother in August 2023, will have the benefit of a preliminary hearing. John James Kilpatrick, 34, appeared before Luzerne County Judge David W. Lupas for a status conference...
Mt. Pleasant Township woman accused of shooting truck pleads guilty to lesser charges
An attempted homicide charge against a Mt. Pleasant Township woman accused of shooting her estranged husband’s pickup truck while he stood nearby was dropped Friday in exchange for her guilty plea on lesser charges. Fauna J. McDowell, 35, was sentenced to nine to 23 months in the Westmoreland County...
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