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May 31, 2023
The District Attorney’s Office has determined that the homicide of 35-year-old Hector Burgos-Torres in West Hempfield Township earlier this year was justified. Burgos-Torres was shot in a residence in the first block of Lincoln West Drive, West Hempfield Township, in the...
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May 30, 2023
West Earl Township Police Officer Jake Waltz’ short three years on the force have already confirmed he made the right career decision. Waltz began his college days as an occupational therapy major at Alvernia University in Berks County before switching to criminal justice, whi...
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May 26, 2023
A Lancaster city sex offender arrested by the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Human Trafficking Task Force (HTTF) pleaded guilty to four charges regarding solicitation of sex from a minor. Jose Villa Corta, 48 of the 900 block of N. Prince Street, was sentenced to 1-5 yea...
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May 25, 2023
A Lancaster city woman was sentenced to 4 ½ to 10 years in state prison and ordered to pay $305,812.94 in restitution Wednesday for assaulting a three-month-old baby who was in her care. Kayla Tucker, 34 of the 500 block of N. Plum Street, pleaded guilty on Oct. 6, 2022, to th...
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May 24, 2023
An Indiana and former Lancaster woman was convicted Tuesday of third-degree murder in the death of “Baby Mary Anne” and was sentenced to 5 ½ to 20 years in prison by Lancaster County Judge Merrill Spahn. Tara Brazzle, 46 of Valparaiso, Ind., entered an “Alford plea,” whereby s...
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