Monday, February 4, 2013
Philadelphia man allegedly broke into a Hatboro residence Saturday morning and confronted the elderly homeowner prior to being arrested.
A 25-year-old Philadelphia man who first asked to use the telephone of an elderly Hatboro homeowner allegedly attemped to steal the victim's car, got into a physical altercation with her and took some of her personal property, according to Hatboro Police. Sean S. Tillman, 25, whose last known address is in the 1300 block of West Ruscomb Street in Philadelphia, was arrested Saturday morning and charged with burglary, robbery, criminal trespass, theft by unlawful taking or disposition, receiving stolen property, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and harassment. The charges stem from an alleged break-in that morning of a North Chester Avenue home in Hatboro, authorities said. Police responded to the borough residence at 7:…
Friday, January 18, 2013
Joseph Canazaro co-owned Finn McCool's in Ambler. Suspects believed to have fled in victims' pickup truck; described as armed and dangerous
Update, 5:03 p.m. The last murder that occurred in Hilltown Township was in 1990 at 12 Key Drive, when Eric Motis stabbed his neighbor Louise C. Hoopes, 42, a secretary at Grand View Hospital, and her sons Douglas, 16, and Daniel, 14, in their beds. Motis, 26, committed suicide in prison in 1998. Motis was facing three life sentences after pleading guilty at trial in 1991. Update, 4:23 p.m. The Reporter reports the black pickup truck has been located in Upper Bucks County. The truck has been located behind Quakertown Plaza Shopping Center on the 1400 block of West Broad Street in Quakertown. Update, 4:14 p.m. Chief Chris Engelhart has identified the victim as Joseph Canazaro, 48. Canazaro lived at the Swartley Road home with his girlfriend…
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Police said a white man wearing a clear face mask robbed Vantage Point Bank in Horsham at gunpoint Thursday morning.
Authorities are seeking the public's help in locating the man responsible for an armed robbery at Vantage Point Bank in Horsham Thursday morning. The FBI described the suspect as a white man between 40 to 50 years old, approximately 6'0" tall, with gray hair (in a "bowl" style cut), wearing a tan plaid suit jacket, tan paints, gray shirt, reddish/orange tie, and dark sun glasses. Authorities said he wore white rubber style gloves during the robbery, which occurred at about 9:30 a.m. at Vantage Point Bank, 100 Gibraltar Road. Police said the man entered the bank wearing a full, clear, face mask, drew a black handgun and demanded money from tellers. After obtaining an undisclosed amount of cash, the subject fled in an unknown direction. …
Thursday, May 31, 2012
An Upper Southampton man is charged on multiple counts related to a robbery at the Warminster 7-Eleven last week. Horsham Police said the man is a person of interest in Sunday's robbery of the Moreland Avenue store.
Acting on information provided by an anonymous source, Warminster police have arrested and charged a suspect in connection with the May 26 robbery of the 7-Eleven at 220 E. Street Road. Sean Paul Foley, 19, of the 400 block of Springfield Road in Upper Southampton, was arraigned by Judge Jean Seaman on multiple counts, including robbery, making terroristic threats, possession of a firearm, simple assault and receiving stolen property. He was remanded to the Bucks County Correctional Facility in lieu of $75,000 bail. Prior to Foley's arrest, Horsham Police had said the description of the suspect sought in the Warminster 7-Eleven robbery matched that of the man who robbed the Moreland Avenue 7-Eleven store in Horsham last weekend. Horsham …
Monday, May 28, 2012
Authorities said the man robbed the Moreland Avenue store Sunday afternoon.
Horsham Police are on the lookout for a white male about five feet seven inches tall who allegedly robbed the 7-Eleven convenience store at 100 Moreland Avenue. Police said the man, who had some facial hair and was wearing a hoodie and dirty jeans during the 2:40 p.m. robbery Sunday, demanded that the clerk give him all the money. The suspect put his right hand into his pocket and made motions indicating he had a weapon, according to police. He then fled the store toward Blair Mill Road. Police said about $300 was taken during the robbery. Surveillance video is not available, police said, because the store's recorder was not working. The suspect is believed to have fled in a vehicle which may have been parked in the rear of the store. …
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
A man who claimed that he had beaten and robbed at a Sunoco mini-mart at Warminster and County Line roads Tuesday afternoon, has been arrested for filing a false police report.
A man who initially appeared to have been a victim of a beating and robbery Tuesday has been arrested after Upper Moreland Police said the man fabricated the entire story. The man, who police have not named, had claimed that two Hispanic males between the ages of 18 and 20 had beat him and robbed him at the Sunoco mini-mart, located at Warminster and County Line roads in Upper Moreland, on the Hatboro border. Following the report, police issued an alert on Nixle asking for help in locating the alleged suspects. K9 units and patrol officers from multiple jurisdictions assisted in the search for the suspects. As a result of the information provided by the man, two subjects were briefly detained and investigated. Police sent a followup …
Thursday, March 29, 2012
An armed robbery on Monday caused the Crooked Billet Elementary School to be locked down.
An apartment robbery on County Line Road spurred Hatboro Police to alert administrators at Crooked Billet Elementary School to prevent anyone from exiting Monday morning, police said. Hatboro Police Chief James Gardner said the robbery occurred in the 200 block of East County Line Road at 10:09 a.m. A 30-year-old resident of the Livingstone apartment complex reported that as she was entering the common entrance to her apartment building she observed a black male sitting on the stairway in the building. As she walked to her apartment with her 2-year-old daughter, the male allegedly confronted her, presented a knife, and pushed the woman and child into their apartment and shut her door. Police said he demanded money. The victim surrendered …
Four suspects have been arrested and another is incarcerated for an unrelated offense.
Four men have been arrested and charged in connection with a March 2011 home invasion robbery in which a 33-year-old disabled Hatboro man was pistol-whipped and severely beaten with a crow bar. This week's arrests of Troy Schussler, 30, of Horsham, Teron Utsey, 29, of Warminster, Robert Johnson, 31, of Perkasie and Michael Wroblewski, 26, of Hatfield follow a year-long joint investigation conducted by the Hatboro Police Department and the Montgomery County Detective Bureau. Charges include felony counts of robbery, criminal conspiracy, burglary, aggravated assault and weapons offenses. A fifth suspect, Huett Kendall "KG" Johnson, formerly of Hatboro and presently incarcerated in the state of New Jersey, is also facing charges related to …
Friday, January 27, 2012
The robbery occurred at Burdick's in the 200 block of York Road just before 1 p.m.
Police are searching for a suspect described as a black male who is said to have robbed Burdick's Hatboro News Agency at gunpoint Friday afternoon. Hatboro Police said the robbery of the store, which is located in the 200 block of South York Road, occurred at approximately 12:41 p.m. Police said the man entered the store and produced a black-colored handgun, demanded money and ordered the three workers and one customer to the rear of the store. He then fled the scene with an undisclosed amount of money. No one was injured during the robbery. The subject is described as a black male with light-colored skin, tall, thin build with facial hair. He was last seen wearing a red plaid flannel jacket, with a black hooded sweatshirt underneath, …
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Ayodele Oke, who is facing charges related to the armed robbery of a former Hatboro-Horsham classmate, was sent to Montgomery County Correctional Facility after allegedly sending threatening text messages.
The Hatboro man awaiting trial on charges that he brandished a gun and threatened to kill his former classmate during a home robbery in Horsham last April, saw his $50,000 bail revoked Tuesday. Ayodele Gabriel Oke, 22, of Hatboro, was arrested last month for allegedly sending 50 threatening text messages to a man who owed him money, according to an article in the Times Herald. That arrest prompted the judge to revoke Oke's bail and send him back to prison. The judge also ordered that Oke -who, in November called the judge "insane" and accused him of "domestic terrorism" - undergo an additional psychiatric evaluation and, if necessary, treatment under the Mental Health Procedures Act. The results of the evaluation are to be delivered to the…
Jonathan Kratz
9:18 am on Thursday, April 18, 2013
All honest and mostly thoughtful. I was just having this conversation with my son this morning...there was a change from a manufacturing society where there were lots of jobs (Disston saws, Stetson hats, all that just in Philadelphia) to one where we have Chinese workers far away make us cheap tools and cheap hats and so on. So for safety and better education we had white flight from the cities (… more ›