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Berks County investigators charge 5 New York men in alleged grandparent scam
The suspects are accused of scamming more than two dozen people from multiple states out of more than $240,000, according to investigators.
Credit: Berks County District Attorney s Office
Clockwise from upper left: Josiah Dejesus, Nelson Rivas-Bello, Ramon Peguero-Rosario, Jasua Noboa-Rival, and Yeurys Peguero-Rosario. Author: Keith Schweigert (FOX43) Updated: 12:20 PM EDT April 20, 2021
READING, Pa. Five Bronx, New York men were arrested and charged with multiple counts of theft by deception and criminal conspiracy for their alleged roles in a grandparent phone scam that victimized a 67-year-old California man and dozens of others late last year, according to the Berks County District Attorney s Office.
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Man threatening officers with knife dies after being shot by police: Berks County DA
Updated Mar 16, 2021;
One man is dead after a police-involved shooting in Berks County.
According to the Berks County District Attorney’s office, the incident happened around 2:15 p.m. Monday in Muhlenberg Township when authorities received a call from a woman saying a man with a knife was threatening her.
Muhlenberg Township police rushed to the home on the 700 block of Wagon Wheel Lane, where the woman who called said the man locked himself in an upstairs bedroom, investigators say.
Officers found a key, unlocked the door, and found the man brandishing a knife, investigators say. They ordered him to drop the knife, but he wouldn’t, police say. One officer used a Taser, which had no effect. A second officer shot the man in the chest, according to investigators.