Dauphin County News Archives

“To me, all black people look alike”

Thursday, January 31, 2008 After a lifetime of hard work, Dunmore money man Louis DeNaples is barred from the biggest business he ever built. via WILK-AM Pittston

“I feel some relief for my son that his killer was caught. It's going to be a long road. He's got to be found guilty and be convicted”

Nancy Garcia of East Stroudsburg will sleep a little better tonight because her son's suspected killer is in police custody. via Pocono Record

A Peruvian investigator says authorities there now have enough evidence to begin extraditon proceedings against a 26-year-old Dauphin County man. via WHP-AM Harrisburg

Some Luzerne County property owners should receive mailed notices of new reassessment values by mid-April, and they then will be able to compare those values to their neighbors' values on the county's Web site, ... via Citizensvoice.com

A former North Londonderry Township police officer was sentenced Friday to 26 to 52 years in state prison for molesting two 4-year-old girls, according to a report in the Harrisburg Patriot-News. Michael ... via The Lebanon Daily News

A Dunmore man accused of extorting money from the company that cleaned pigeon dung from the Lackawanna County Courthouse has been subpoenaed to testify before a Dauphin County grand jury today. via The Times-Tribune

A former Shippensburg University police officer who pleaded guilty to molesting to 4-year-old girls in Swatara Township in 2006 was sentenced Friday to 26 to 52 years in state prison. via Cumberlink.com

Middle Paxton Township police are investigating an early morning crash that shut down a roadway and sent one man to the hospital. via WHTM-TV Harrisburg

“You can catch people fleeing the area”

Last summer a gunshot detection system was installed in Harrisburg's South Allison Hill neighborhood. via WHTM-TV Harrisburg

The bomb squad was called in to assist in a bank robbery in Upper Leacock Township Wednesday morning. via WHP-TV Harrisburg

The attorney for a Roman Catholic priest charged with perjury wants a different judge assigned to the case. via WHTM-TV Harrisburg

Rutter's, which operates convenience stores in south-central Pennsylvania, plans to build 10 new stores and 11 car washes as part of a $55 million expansion. via Herald-Mail

A persistent critic of the Pennsylvania Legislature now is seeking a seat in the state House. via The York Daily Record

“Our customers ask us to provide the most up-to-date stores possible -- bigger, brighter and more fast food options.”

Rutter's announced Friday that it will invest more than $55 million this year to build 10 convenience stores and 11 car washes as part of the biggest one-year capital expenditure in the company's history. via York Dispatch

“We have no agreement with Mr. D'Elia, and we are going to trial”

William D'Elia, the reputed Scranton mobster who is a key link in the grand jury investigation of Mount Airy Casino Resort owner Louis DeNaples, has not reached a cooperation agreement with federal prosecutors ... via The Morning Call

A former Hamburg police officer, who once was accused of threatening to shoot a customer in a West Reading diner, has been charged with stealing more than $3,000 seized in drug investigations in the Dauphin ... via Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Lower Paxton Township police say they were called to the 200 block of North Arlington Avenue at 12:24 a.m. Wednesday and, after finding that Harris had been shot, interviewed a woman and her boyfriend, who were ... via Perry County Weekly

“The claims of misconduct are absolutely false”

Projects Editor In a scathing, 240-page motion filed Thursday in Dauphin County Court, an attorney for the Rev. via The Citizens' Voice

“Obviously, Mr. Chardo will not let the truth, the Constitution or the law impede his misguided crusade”

Prosecutors in the perjury case against the Rev. Joseph F. Sica are seeking testimony from Dunmore billionaire Louis A. DeNaples in a bid to remove Sica's attorney from the case. via Citizensvoice.com

Two Carlisle men have been arrested today in connection with an overnight fatal Dauphin County shooting, according to Lower Paxton Township police. via Cumberlink.com

“It is a further waste of valuable time, but it will be judged fairly and impartially.”

Citizen activist Gene Stilp filed a judicial conduct complaint against state Supreme Court Justice Ronald Castille based on a newspaper story that Castille revealed details of a pending decision to a reporter ... via Legal Intelligencer

Debbi Beitzel of Dillsburg said she woke up to a loud crash around 1 o'clock Saturday morning. via WHTM-TV Harrisburg

“We don't want it here and hopefully we're sending a message to the drug dealers and the users”

The Dauphin County D.A.'s Office became concerned last year when Chief Chris Wade held a press conference on a drug bust. via WPMT-TV York

On Saturday, at 1:07 a.m., Carroll Township Police were responding to the 200 block of South Second Street in Dillsburg for a report of an intoxicated driver in a gold Volkswagen Golf, police said. via The York Daily Record

The Attorney General's Child Predator Unit arrested a Newville man accused of using Internet chat rooms to sexually proposition an undercover agent he believed was a 14-year-old girl. via WHTM-TV Harrisburg

“The only comment we can make at this point is an investigation is going on and district officials are cooperating with police on that matter.”

From cell phone to cell phone, a disturbing video spread through Harrisburg High School . via WHTM-TV Harrisburg

The Rev. Joseph F. Sica, a Roman Catholic priest charged with perjury in an organized crime investigation, was denied the right to contact his attorney after he was arrested in Scranton last week by state ... via Citizensvoice.com

A Newville man was arrested Wednesday and charged after sending nude photos to an undercover agent posing as a 14-year-old girl and soliciting her for sex, according to the state attorney general's office. via Perry County Weekly

A former federal prosecutor in central Pennsylvania has a new job, as counsel for Scranton businessman and casino owner Louis DeNaples. via Pocono Record

Police are looking for a man considered to be armed and dangerous in connection with the city's first homicide of 2008. via WHTM-TV Harrisburg

“Whatever created this animosity between the two groups, whether it was machoism or theft who knows, but I can guarantee you it wasn't worth doing over”

Police continue to investigate Monday's deadly shooting in Harrisburg. The victim 19-year-old Jamar Quentin Robinson was shot more than five times execution style during an altercation with four people. via WPMT-TV York

“It was an attack with the intent to kill”

Harrisburg police arrested two young men after Monday's homicide in Manor Hall, but they haven't been charged with the deadly shooting. via WHTM-TV Harrisburg

Have you heard the one about the gun-owning priest who was arrested with $1,000 cash in his pocket? Too bad that's not the prelude to a punch line. via Hotel Online

CASINO OWNER'S PRIEST CHARGED WITH PERJURY The Rev. Joseph Sica, a Roman Catholic priest, was charged Wednesday with lying to a Dauphin County grand jury investigating his childhood friend, Mount Airy ... via The Morning Call

Father Joseph Sica is a close advisor to Dunmore businessman Louis DeNaples. Now, investigators say the Catholic priest is also a liar...the criminal kind. via WILK-AM Pittston

“The investigation to date has uncovered substantial evidence demonstrating that DeNaples lied in his sworn testimony. The grand jury has received testimony from dozens of witnesses”

Attorneys for Louis DeNaples fought furiously and unsuccessfully over the last year to stop a grand jury from investigating allegation that he lied during hearings for his slots license. via Pocono Record

“Death teaches us a simple lesson: Forget about yesterday - it's over - and tomorrow may never come, but we haven't seen today before, so live it as well as you possibly can.”

Before hitting the front pages with his arrest on perjury charges in a grand jury Mafia probe, the Rev. via Citizensvoice.com

“Im not at liberty to say anything”

The Dauphin County grand jury that indicted a Catholic priest in its investigation of Poconos casino mogul Louis DeNaples relied upon testimony from mob boss William "Big Billy" DElia, according to a criminal ... via The Philadelphia Inquirer

“The grand jury received credible evidence plainly demonstrating that Sica's testimony regarding the level of his relationship with Bufalino was intentionally false.”

The following is a transcript of grand jury testimony offered by the Rev. Joseph F. Sica before a Dauphin County grand jury on Aug. via The Citizens' Voice

A Catholic priest who serves as an advisor to Mount Airy Casino Resort owner Louis DeNaples was charged with perjury this morning, according to the Dauphin County district attorney's office. via The Morning Call

A woman was arrested after she attempted to steal a purse, then bit another woman and threatened to shoot the other woman's children Monday, according to Susquehanna Township police. via Perry County Weekly

One ticket matched all six winning numbers, 24-25-26-27-48-49, in the Dec. 25 MATCH 6 lotto drawing. via Earth Times