Posted on: March 27, 2020
Our office is aware of the impact of isolation presented by the COVID-19 emergency.
That impact can be particularly difficult for people who are victims of crime.
We have a team of advocates available to support victims – and that continues during...
March 27, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: March 26, 2020
A Lancaster County-wide plan is in place to ensure police services will continue if a department has a staffing shortage that impacts public protection.
In response to COVID-19, District Attorney Heather Adams established this week the Lancaster County Reg...
March 25, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: March 20, 2020
A Lancaster County-wide plan is in place to ensure police services will continue if a department has a staffing shortage that impacts public protection.
In response to COVID-19, District Attorney Heather Adams established this week the Lancaster County Reg...
March 20, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: March 19, 2020
In response to COVID-19, Lancaster County’s President Judge signed an order March 18 suspending many court proceedings in the county through April 14.
Generally, the Lancaster County Courthouse (at 50 North Duke Street) and district courts are CL...
March 19, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: March 13, 2020
Aspiring lawyers from more than a dozen colleges and universities recently visited the Lancaster County Courthouse for opening round action of the American Mock Trial Association’s National Tournament.
Six prosecutors from our office served as vo...
March 13, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: March 10, 2020
An East Hempfield Township man will serve up to 10 years in prison for having lewd images of a teenage girl, then threatening to post the photos on Facebook when she stopped talking to him.
Raymond McClenaghan was caught trying to have lewd photos of a chi...
March 10, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: March 6, 2020
A Lancaster man on trial this week for raping a woman decided to plead guilty after 2½ days of testimony.
Kenny Padilla-Pineda pleaded guilty to rape and related counts after a local jury heard testimony from the victim and other witnesses.
Lanca...
March 6, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: March 5, 2020
An Elizabethtown woman will serve up to 20 years in prison for suffocating her infant daughter, found unresponsive in an apartment in July 2018.
Candace Parrow, 25, previously pleaded no contest guilty but mentally ill to 3rd-degree murder and related coun...
March 5, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: March 3, 2020
This information was included in the March 2020 newsletter distributed by the Lancaster County Crime Prevention Task Force. View the newsletter and SUBSCRIBE here: http://bit.ly/3alUMar.
We present this as a release of information so parents and c...
March 3, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: February 28, 2020
A state prison inmate will get no break from a Pennsylvania appellate court for taking part in the murder of Ray Diener, a humanitarian killed on his front porch during a random robbery in 2007.
Emru Kebede, now 29, is one of four individuals convicted in ...
Feb. 28, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: February 26, 2020
A repeat sex offender was sentenced to his longest prison term yet for a recent probation violation stemming from a 1988 conviction for abusing eight boys.
Kevin Portello was a student at Lancaster Bible College decades ago when he contacted and abused the...
Feb. 26, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: February 25, 2020
The first human trafficking trial conviction in Lancaster County history will stand, the Pennsylvania Superior Court recently ordered.
Dominic O. Roach filed for relief from his conviction and 18-to-36-year prison sentence for trafficking two women from Ne...
Feb. 25, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: February 24, 2020
A Manheim Township man will serve up to 63 years in prison for years of abuse of two girls, behavior that the sentencing judge called “disgusting and evil.”
Geoffrey Bussard was sentenced Friday to 29½ to 63 years regarding h...
Feb. 24, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: February 21, 2020
A Conoy Township man was ordered to stand trial after an officer testified Wednesday about the man’s suspended license and nearly a pound of marijuana found in his vehicle in January.
District Judge Randall Miller ordered 29-year-old Shane M. Win...
Feb. 21, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: February 20, 2020
Our office has made public purchase receipts and other documents regarding drug forfeiture account transactions from 2017 through the end of fiscal year 2018.
The documents are available in a searchable database via DropBox.
You can view the documents HERE....
Feb. 20, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: February 19, 2020
February officially became Love Your Dog Month at a recent ceremony in Lancaster to promote the importance of proper licensing and cruelty law enforcement.
Having your dog licensed every year not only protects your own pet, but also helps mistreated dogs a...
Feb. 19, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: February 18, 2020
Lancaster County’s Sheriff and District Attorney are continuing a project to educate those served with protection-from-abuse orders and ultimately decrease illegal reactions to the orders.
District Attorney Heather Adams recently provided Sheriff...
Feb. 18, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: February 13, 2020
A Lancaster man will serve up to 25 years in prison for providing fentanyl to Lancaster County Prison inmates, causing one of them to die of overdose last year.
Christopher Franco-Robles, 21, placed the fentanyl in a trash can outside the prison, where an ...
Feb. 13, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: February 10, 2020
A Lancaster man was sentenced Thursday to state prison for lying to police about a homicide investigation, then calling and tipping off one of the charged killers.
Daniel F. Pineda, 22, previously pleaded guilty to two felony counts of hindering apprehensi...
Feb. 10, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: February 7, 2020
This information was included in the February 2020 newsletter distributed by the Lancaster County Crime Prevention Task Force. View the newsletter and SUBSCRIBE here: http://bit.ly/372qyae.
The fourth annual Lancaster County Crime Prevention Summi...
Feb. 7, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: February 5, 2020
Courthouse Companion Dog Tresi interacted with about 250 people last year, serving as a calming presence in emotional meetings, hearings and other court-related functions.
Tresi has been under the care of the District Attorney’s Office since earl...
Feb. 5, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: February 3, 2020
A Lancaster man was ordered Friday to face homicide and related charges in Lancaster County Court regarding a house fire in 2010 that killed Olga Sanchez, who was found dead in a second-floor bedroom of her North Plum Street home.
Carlos Montalvo-Rivera, S...
Feb. 3, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: January 30, 2020
A Lancaster woman will serve up to 16 years in prison for burning and beating a toddler – making video recordings of some of the abuse.
Lancaster County Judge Jeffery Wright called the acts of 20-year-old Kamika Bowman “as terrible as a...
Jan. 30, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: January 27, 2020
An East Earl man will serve at least 38 years in prison for years of sexual abuse of four pre-teenage girls, abuse which has inflicted permanent trauma on the victims who are now struggling with instinctual sexually deviate behaviors.
David S. Smucker, 75,...
Jan. 27, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: January 24, 2020
Five individuals battling mental illness found support and a path to recovery in a Lancaster County specialty court after being charged with crimes.
Four women and a man graduated Wednesday from Mental Health Court, earning certificates and reductions or e...
Jan. 24, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: January 23, 2020
A repeat offender was recently sentenced for being under the influence of methamphetamine, fentanyl and morphine while driving on a DUI-related suspended license.
Kelly Lynn Fieni, 56, also possessed quantities of those substances – along with he...
Jan. 23, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: January 22, 2020
Two Philadelphia-based drug suppliers were recently sentenced in Lancaster County Court to state prison for trafficking thousands of bags of fentanyl.
Assistant District Attorney Barry Goldman said Joshua Flores and Jacob Delmonte brought a “stag...
Jan. 22, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: January 21, 2020
The Fraternal Order of Police recently honored a Lancaster County prosecutor and two detectives for their investigative work in the murder of Christy Mirack, a 25-year-old schoolteacher killed 27 years ago in her East Lampeter Township home.
In separate ce...
Jan. 21, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: January 16, 2020
Our office is assisting the Pennsylvania SPCA in the investigation of two horses dropped off last weekend at the New Holland Stables.
We are seeking information on who was involved in owning the horses and dropping them off at the stables.
If you have seen ...
Jan. 16, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: January 14, 2020
A Lancaster man was convicted Thursday of hitting a 2-year-old boy in the face and sexually abusing the boy’s mother – with the child present in a vehicle.
Luis Martinez-Colomba, 32, was found guilty of felony counts of aggravated assau...
Jan. 14, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: January 13, 2020
Northwest Regional police Officer Frank Jones proudly took an oath to put himself in harm’s way to protect the public from those who perpetrate crimes.
In recent years those duties have expanded to bringing individuals back to life following over...
Jan. 13, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: January 9, 2020
A Lancaster man will serve up to 34 years in prison for sexual abuse of a pre-teenager 10 years ago at a city apartment.
Lancaster County Judge Donald Totaro sentenced 50-year-old Teddy Bernard to 10¾ to 34 years in prison regarding an October c...
Jan. 9, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: January 8, 2020
This information was included in the January 2020 newsletter distributed by the Lancaster County Crime Prevention Task Force. View the newsletter and SUBSCRIBE here: http://bit.ly/37HuZbq.
We present this as a release of information so parents and...
Jan. 8, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: January 7, 2020
A Lancaster man will serve at least 23½ years in prison for fentanyl sales – including one that caused a Conestoga Township woman’s death in 2017.
Assistant District Attorney Barry Goldman said 39-year-old Kim Burgess is an &...
Jan. 7, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: January 6, 2020
Two men were sentenced Thursday to lengthy state prison terms for a robbery in Lancaster city that nearly killed a man who was shot.
Clifton Hunter and Jovar Jackson, both 25, have violent criminal pasts and conspired on Oct. 16, 2018, to rob a man inside ...
Jan. 6, 2020
District Attorney
Posted on: December 20, 2019
A New Holland man was convicted this week of berating a police officer over traffic tickets, then deliberately backing into the officer’s cruiser and fleeing.
A local jury convicted 66-year-old Mark Wingerd of the hit-and-run - four months after ...
Dec. 20, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: December 19, 2019
Protecting and serving the public are ever-evolving assignments for police officers trained to adapt with trending behaviors and perpetrator habits.
The outbreak of opioid addiction has prompted police officers across Lancaster County – and elsew...
Dec. 19, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: December 16, 2019
A Lancaster woman will serve at least four years in prison for causing her daughter’s permanent injuries – 11 years ago – when she left the child alone in bathwater as she was away smoking marijuana.
Jaquia Morales asked that ...
Dec. 16, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: December 11, 2019
A Conestoga Township man will serve up to 25 years in prison for having a stash of guns – while on bail for illegal possession of guns – and leading police on a vehicle chase this summer.
Brian Gainer, already a convicted felon, pleaded...
Dec. 11, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: December 3, 2019
Three people have been sentenced in Lancaster County Court for providing fentanyl-laced heroin to a woman who died – apparently using heroin for the first time.
Investigators discovered that the 30-year-old victim had wanted to “try&...
Dec. 3, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: November 20, 2019
Age, impairment, and lack of seatbelts were the most common factors in deadly vehicle crashes in Lancaster County over five recent years, according to PennDOT.
PennDOT reviewed 28,751 crashes reported in Lancaster County between 2014 and 2018 for cause fac...
Nov. 20, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: November 12, 2019
The Lancaster County Drug Task Force arrested an upper-level dealer after a lengthy investigation that uncovered nearly a kilogram of cocaine, quantities of heroin and cash, and stolen handguns.
Detectives called Jordan Luis Morales’ trafficking an “enterp...
Nov. 12, 2019
District Attorney
Posted on: October 25, 2019
A New Holland man was sentenced to three years of probation – and a property ban - for threatening to bring a gun to a local retirement community after he was denied volunteer work at the facility.
Mark Wingerd, 66, was convicted at trial last mo...
Oct. 25, 2019
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