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NJ Man Posed As Religious Solicitor To Meet ‘13-Year-Old’ In PA: Prosecutors
A New Jersey man who drove to Pennsylvania dressed as a religious solicitor to meet someone he believed was a 13-year-old girl for sex has been sentenced, authorities announced on Wednesday, Aug. 19.
The case began when Oscar Castillo-Peralta, 54, of Pleasantville, NJ, started chatting on a social media app with someone he believed was a 13-year-old girl on Jan. 30, 2025, authorities said. Bensalem police previously identified the app as KIK.
The pair exchanged phone numbers and continued communicating by text, with the conversations becoming sexual over the following weeks, investigators s…
3 Charged After Same Dogs Seriously Injure 2 Children In Separate PA Attacks: DA
Three family members have been charged after the same two dogs seriously injured two young children in separate attacks at their Pennsylvania home, authorities announced on Wednesday, Aug. 19.
Andrew Hresko, 70, Debra Hresko, 61, and their daughter Rebecca Hresko, 31, were charged for their respective roles in the attacks involving the family's dogs, Chip and Zeus, according to the Lebanon County District Attorney's Office.
Rebecca Hresko was charged with Felony Aggravated Assault of a Child, Felony Endangering the Welfare of a Child, and Misdemeanor Recklessly Endangering Another Person. …
Molotov Cocktail Plot: Massachusetts Trans Woman Sentenced In Plan To Firebomb Scott Bessent
A Massachusetts woman will spend more than six years in federal prison after admitting to bringing two homemade firebombs and a knife to Washington, D.C., in an attempt to kill then-Treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent, federal authorities said.
Ryan Michael English, 26, of South Deerfield, previously pleaded guilty to two federal weapons charges. A judge sentenced English to 73 months in prison on Tuesday, Aug. 18, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced. English must also serve three years of supervised release.
The plot unfolded on Jan. 27, 2025, when Bessen…
'You Will Die At My Hands': Cyberstalking Charge In NJ, PA Death Threat Campaign
A man most recently living in Albania threatened to kill victims in New Jersey and Pennsylvania during a 15-month campaign of graphic voicemails and text messages, federal prosecutors said.
Jarvis Shabazz, 37, who has ties to New Jersey, Georgia, Malaysia, Morocco, and Albania, was charged with eight counts of interstate threats and two counts of cyberstalking, U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer announced. Shabazz made his initial appearance and was arraigned in Camden federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sharon A. King.
The alleged threats began Oct. 10, 2022, when Shabazz left a graph…
International Manhunt Ends With PA BF Captured After GF Found Slashed, Hidden In Closet: DA
An international manhunt for a man accused of slashing his girlfriend’s throat, hiding her body in a closet, and fleeing the country ended with his capture in Honduras, prosecutors announced on Monday, Aug. 17.
Darwin David Espinal-Del Cid, 27, of Telford, Pennsylvania, was taken into custody by Honduran agents with the Technical Agency for Criminal Investigation during an operation coordinated with the FBI early Monday in Pespire, Honduras, according to Bucks County District Attorney Joe Khan.
Espinal-Del Cid is accused of killing his girlfriend, 23-year-old Maria Bernarda Popol Garcia, as…
Mom Of 4 Rideshare Driver And Passenger Killed In Pennsylvania Crash
A mother of four and a woman using a rideshare service were killed in a two-vehicle crash in Lancaster County over the weekend, officials announced on Monday, Aug. 17.
Nicole Bibbus, 37, of Ephrata Borough, and Cynthia Walsh, 71, of East Cocalico Township, died in the collision at North Reading Road and Keeler Avenue in East Cocalico Township on Saturday, Aug. 15, according to the Lancaster County Coroner's Office.
The crash involved a sedan and a subcompact car, the coroner's office said. Bibbus was driving the subcompact car, while Walsh was a backseat passenger in the sedan and was parti…
