Man shot in Northeast Philly

1MAN SHOT IN NORTHEAST

A 45-year-old man was critically injured after being shot repeatedly on Shelmire Avenue near Torresdale, in Holmesburg, late Tuesday.

The victim told police that three men wearing dark clothing shot him outside just before midnight; he remained in critical condition after surgery at Aria Health's Torresdale hospital. Police reported no motive.

2DOC FACES FRAUD COUNT

Ferdinand B. Aczon, 62, a Mount Laurel, N.J., physician, was charged by the U.S. attorney yesterday with attempting to obtain a controlled substance by fraud.

Authorities said that Aczon, who had an office on 5th Street near Lehigh Avenue, in Fairhill, signed and issued a prescription in December 2009 for Tussionex in the name of a person he had never met. Aczon then allegedly provided the prescription to another person. Tussionex is a cough syrup that contains an addictive prescription painkiller.

3SEX-ASSAULT GUILTY PLEA

James Griffin, 40, of Mount Ephraim, N.J., pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree aggravated sexual assault before Superior Court Judge Edward McBride in a July 4, 2009, attack on a woman in the Budget Inn on the Black Horse Pike in Mount Ephraim.

Authorities said that Griffin invited the woman into his room to use his phone, then broke a beer bottle and threatened her with the jagged edge and sexually assaulted her. Griffin has a record of other sex offenses and is a registered sex offender under Megan's Law.

4WATER POLLUTION CHARGES

The U.S attorney has charged Chemical Equipment Labs Inc., of Marcus Hook, with violating the federal Clean Water Act by discharging pollutants without a permit into Marcus Hook Creek.

Authorities said that on April 25, 2007, company employees rinsed the interior of a tank of a parked truck that had been used to transport chlorine. Liquid from a valve on the truck pooled near the truck and flowed into a manhole in the parking lot, which collected stormwater and snowmelt and discharged it into the creek.