Bensalem citizens looking to unload their guns for a load of cash can go to the municipal building Wednesday night or Saturday and get paid for surrendering their arms.
The goal is to reduce gun violence, organizers say. Gun givers can get up to $200 for assault rifles, $100 for semi-automatic handguns and $50 for handguns, rifles and shot guns. The first 100 people will also receive two VIP passes to The Comedy Works in Georgine's restaurant in Bristol.
To participate in the buyback, go to the township building at 2400 Byberry Road from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday or 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Questions? Go to www.bensalempolice.org or call the cops at (215) 633-3700 x3777.
Police are investigating three separate shootings from over the weekend that left one person dead and two others critically wounded, police said.
The murder took place early Saturday in the Ogontz section of North Philadelphia. Police responded to North Opal Street near Nedro Avenue at about 1:15 a.m. for a report of a person with a gun. Officers found a man lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the chest.
He was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center and pronounced dead shortly thereafter. The victim has not been identified.
A 23-year-old man is in critical condition following a stabbing early Sunday in Southwest Philadelphia, police said.
The incident occured shortly after midnight on Woodland Avenue near 64th. Preliminary reports said the victim was stabbed multiple times in the face, chest, back and left arm.
He was transported to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in critical condition.
Who knows, maybe the building had it coming.
Pharez Morris, a veteran Philadelphia police officer, was arrested Friday for allegedly firing 13 shots at a building in Logan while he was off-duty last fall, the District Attorney’s Office said.
Morris, 27, allegedly tried to cover his tracks by calling 9-1-1 after the bizarre incident and reporting that a shooting had occurred nearby.
Police shot and wounded a gunman who they say robbed a Little Caesar's Pizza in Southwest Philadelphia Friday afternoon.
About 1:30 p.m., police were called to the Little Caesar's at Island and Elmwood avenues for an armed robbery, according to police. When a cop encountered the armed suspect nearby, on 72nd Street near Dicks Avenue, the officer fired once at the man, striking him in the hip, police said.
The wounded suspect was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and police said they recovered the gun he'd been carrying at the scene of the shooting. Information on the man's age or condition was not immediately available.
A 13-year-old boy was on his way to school in North Philadelphia one morning last month when two thugs approached him, threatened him and robbed him, police said. Now, cops are seeking the public's help to catch the cowardly thugs who targeted the teen.
The student was walking on Girard Avenue near 13th Street around 7:45 a.m. Jan. 22 when the two robbers approached him, police said. One demanded, “Give me your cell phone or I’m going to f--- you up,” and the second demanded that the young victim give him cash.
The teen gave up his cellphone and SEPTA TransPass, and the robbers ran west on Girard Avenue, police said. The robbery was captured on surveillance camera, and police released the footage on Friday in hopes that someone will recognize and dime out the robbers.
Police on Friday released surveillance video of a gunpoint carjacking at a gas station near Center City, and they're seeking any tips to help them catch the carjacker who remains at large.
On Jan. 19, two men were parked in a pickup truck at a gas station on Spring Garden Street near 11th at 8:43 p.m. when two men approached the truck and forced them out of it at gunpoint, according to police. One of the victims was also armed, police said, and shot one of the carjackers in the leg. The wounded man fled, but was apprehended a few blocks away.
The second carjacker, police said, managed to steal a dirt bike from the bed of the pickup truck and fled the scene on it. Police are still looking for him. He's described as black, 21 to 24 years old and wore a blue jacket and a gray hooded sweatshirt.
A man who pulled a gun on a SEPTA bus driver after the driver missed his stop in the Northeast last week is being held on $150,000 bail, the District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.
Walter Thompson, 20, of Marcella Street near Summerdale Avenue in Summerdale, was on the Route 24 bus Thursday when he threatened the driver with a gun, according to the D.A.’s Office. After pulling the gun on the driver, he jumped off the bus.
Thompson was arrested overnight, and has been charged with aggravated assault, violation of the Uniform Firearms Act, terroristic threats, simple assault, reckless endangerment and harassment, authorities said. He’s scheduled to appear in court Feb. 14.
Police are investigating the murder of a 48-year-old man who was found dead in a house in Overbrook Wednesday afternoon.
The man's nephew found him lying face-down in a pool of blood in an upstairs bedroom of the house, on 60th Street north of Lansdowne Avenue, shortly before 2 p.m. and alerted authorities, police said. The man was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:10 p.m., and investigators determined that he had multiple stab wounds.
The homicide remains under investigation, and police have not reported any arrests.
Cherry Hill police are looking for a man with a heavy South Philly accent who, on two separate occasions, shoved a Les Paul slim neck guitar down his pants and walked out of a Sam Ash music store, police said.
According to a press release from the Cherry Hill Police Department, the suspect entered the store with his female accomplice on Dec. 19 and again on Jan. 8 and he put the guitars down his pants while his accomplice distracted employees of the store, which is on Route 38 in Cherry Hill, N.J.
Police said both suspects appear to be in their late 40s or early 50s. The man had a "heavy South Philadelphia accent" and they left the store in a black SUV driven by a third individual.
