Egad, this post should have been up much earlier. A recap of some of today's crime stories:
Mr. Ramsey indeed went to Washington. "No question about it, it's needed," Philly's top cop said of the pitch he made to a senate committee to boost the amount of federal aid state and local police departments receive. Click here to read the rest.
William Foster, the career criminal who killed Sgt. Timothy Simpson in a car crash in Port Richmond in November, got a five to 10-year state prison in Bucks County for a probation violation. Bigger sentences certainly loom in Foster's future, whenever he ends up in court to face third degree murder charges for Simpson's death. Said the judge who gave Foster probation back in 2007: "The sentence I gave originally seemed appropriate at the time." Click here to read more.
Remember that Oxford Circle heroin ring I told you about the other day? Those guys evidently were also handy with rehabbing old furniture, too, says my colleague Regina Medina.