Allegheny County buck ranks as No. 13 in archery category.

The hunters who top Pennsylvania’s all-time list for largest bucks harvested will remain there a while longer. 
The Pennsylvania Game Commission today took official measurements on an exceptionally large rack from a whitetail buck taken in Allegheny County two months ago, during the statewide archery season. 

Jeff Lenzi, right, of Fayette County, holds the 10-point rack of the buck he harvested Oct. 11 in Allegheny County. The buck is the 13th-largest taken with archery equipment in Pennsylvania.  Get Image

Many believed the buck held the potential to be a new state record, but the final score fell short of the leaders. 
The typical 10-point buck taken with a crossbow Oct. 10 by Fayette County hunter Jeff Lenzi netted a score of 166 inches, based on Boone & Crockett Club standards for scoring big-game animals. 
The score places the buck at No. 13 in the typical archery category in the Pennsylvania Big Game Records book.
The top buck in that category, taken in Allegheny County in 2004 by Michael Nicola Sr., of Waterford, scores 178 2/8 inches. The largest typical buck on record in Pennsylvania, taken in Bradford County by Fritz Janowsky, of Wellsburg, N.Y, way back in 1943, scores 189 inches. That buck tops the typical firearms category. 
Bob D’Angelo, an official Boone & Crockett Club scorer who heads Pennsylvania’s Big Game Records Program, measured the rack of Lenzi’s buck.
D’Angelo explained the scoring system rewards symmetrical racks and calls for deductions when a rack’s points

  

PHILADELPHIA PA (December 18, 2014)–East Detective Division is looking to identify and locate the suspect who robbed a Dunkin Donuts in Franklinville.

On December 14, 2014, at 5:00 am, an unknown male entered a Dunkin Donuts located at 3705 North Germantown Avenue and placed a food order. After the employee placed the items on the counter the suspect handed the employee money for the order and the employee opened the register the suspect reached into the register taking an undetermined amount of money while

 

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(December 16, 2014)TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that four family members were indicted today on first-degree drug charges for allegedly operating a heroin and cocaine mill in their residence in Elizabeth. They also are charged in connection with opiate pain pills seized at their home.The Division of Criminal Justice Gangs & Organized Crime Bureau obtained a 10-count state grand jury indictment charging the following four defendants:

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PHILADELPHIA (December 15, 2014)– – Richard Ritchie, 45, of Philadelphia, William O’Donnell, 62, of Cherry Hill, NJ, and Christopher Prophet, 43, of Richboro, PA, pleaded guilty today to RICO conspiracy and other charges in connection with an extortion case in which Ironworkers Local 401 used violence and intimidation to get union members assigned to jobs on non-union worksites. In addition to the RICO conspiracy count, Ritchie and Prophet each pleaded guilty to attempted extortion which interferes with interstate commerce; and Ritchie also pleaded guilty to violent crime in aid of racketeering. 

COURT APPROVES FINAL SETTLEMENT IN PASSAIC RIVER LITIGATION; O
State Has Recovered $355 Million from All Passaic River Settlements


(December 17, 2014) TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Bob Martin announced today that a Superior Court judge has approved a $190 million settlement with Occidental Chemical Corp. that resolves the company\’s liability for contamination of the Passaic River. 

LINDENWOLD POLICE DEPARTMENT NEWS RELEASE 


LINDENWOLD NJ (December 17, 2014)–On December 13, 2014 at approximately 0020 hours a Lindenwold Police Officer conducting business checks in the Emerson Avenue Strip Mall noticed several suspicious people in the alley behind a business. The officer observed several suspects enter the rear door to a barber shop and believed he may have come upon a burglary in progress due to the fact that all of the businesses were closed at that time.

The officer summoned several other officers to assist him.

December 17, 2014

 

PHILADELPHIA – Victor Thach, 47, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,337,000 in restitution to the IRS, arising out of his scheme to evade payroll and other taxes. Between 2007 and 2009, Thach operated a 250-person labor leasing agency that supplied temporary workers (including many illegal aliens) to local mail-sorting facilities. During this time period Thach’s clients paid him more than $9.8 million for the labor he provided. Thach, in turn, paid his employees in cash and \”under the table,\” that is, without issuing IRS Forms W-2 or deducting any payroll taxes. Despite having a multi-million dollar payroll, and despite that two accountants separately counseled him about his tax and reporting obligations during the years in question, Thach did not file a single tax return (corporate or individual).

 

12/15/14

	A badge from the Bureau of Investigation, as the FBI was called from 1909 to 1935.

When war broke out in Europe a hundred years ago—in 1914, to be exact—the U.S. declared its neutrality, and U.S. investigative agencies like the Bureau of Investigation (the precursor to the FBI) had little role to play.

As the conflict escalated, though, American munitions, food, and other goods became a point of contention. Great Britain and its allies tried to purchase all they could afford from the U.S. to bolster their effort. But Germany and its allies, blockaded by British ships, took up submarine warfare to try and prevent their enemies from benefiting from American trade and turned to sabotage, espionage, propaganda, and other intelligence tactics to succeed.

The U.S. government’s response was divided. On the one hand, the Treasury Department’s Secret Service sought to pursue German spies and their agents in the U.S. In one well known case, a Secret Service agent tailing a known German agent in New York City picked up a briefcase accidentally left behind on a bus—it contained a trove of documents related to German efforts to clandestinely plan and support secret activities aimed at interfering with American assistance to the Allies.

On the other hand, because little of this activity violated the limited federal laws at the time, U.S. Attorney General Thomas Gregory cautioned the Bureau of Investigation to keep its investigations into German activities limited—even though they were potential threats to our national security.