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Welcome from DA Heather Adams
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District Attorney Heather Adams launched the Human Trafficking Task Force four years ago on January 11, recognized across the U.S. as Nation...
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The Lancaster County Office of the District Attorney is dedicated to achieving justice and protecting the safety of our community. We thorou...
Read MoreThe Role of the District Attorney's Office
Have you ever wondered what the role of the District Attorney’s Office consists of, in addition to prosecuting criminal cases?District Att...
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Images from Lancaster Safety Coalition cameras showing a February knife attack helped convict a Salisbury Township man of the stabbing.Judge...
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The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office announces our Lancaster Law Enforcement series, which will begin Monday, January 9, 2023, ...
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Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams has announced that six community-based drug and crimefighting programs in Lancaster County ...
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Lancaster County’s C.A.S.E., or Campaign Against Sexual Exploitation, has a mission to engage the Lancaster County community in protecting...
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The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office announces our Victims of Homicide Remembrance Quilt project on this National Day of Rememb...
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Jul 19, 2026
Officers with the Columbia Borough Police Department were dispatched to a shooting in the 900 block of Plane Street on Saturday, July 18 at approximately 9:45 p.m. Officers arrived on scene and discovered a juvenile male deceased from a gunshot wound. The Lanc...
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Created Jul 8, 2026 / Updated Jul 17, 2026
A judge sentenced a Providence Township man to eight to 20 years in state prison after he pleaded guilty earlier this year of killing a man and seriously injuring his elderly wife after crashing into them head-on while driving under the influence of drugs on Christmas Day. Jud...
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Created Jul 6, 2026 / Updated Jul 16, 2026
A judge sentenced a Virginia man to three and a half to 15 years in state prison followed by three years of probation after a jury found him guilty earlier this year of assaulting two young girls at two different Lancaster County homes more than 20 years. Judge Jeffrey Conrad ...
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Created Jul 6, 2026 / Updated Jul 15, 2026
The Commonwealth secured lengthy state prison sentences for two Lancaster County men who pleaded guilty to unrelated child abuse crimes. Judge Todd Brown sentenced Samuel S. Beiler, of the 700 block of Doutrich Drive in Salisbury Township to eight to 16 years in state p...
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Created Jul 2, 2026 / Updated Jul 17, 2026
A full-time nanny charged with physically abusing a 7-month-old Brecknock Township girl will have her case proceed to county court after waiving her preliminary hearing. Tiffany Lynn Cooper, of West Pottsgrove Township, Montgomery County, waived her preliminary hearing b...
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Created Jul 1, 2026 / Updated Jul 13, 2026
A Penn Township man charged with repeatedly raping and sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl will have his case proceed to county court following a preliminary hearing. Judge Torrey Landis ruled June 29 that the case of Dylan Keith Shenk, 34, could proceed to the Court of C...
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Jul 10, 2026
A second man accused of taking part in an armed burglary in a Warwick Township residence in which a man was pistol-whipped and two teenagers were held at gunpoint has been arrested. Luis Angel Lopez, Jr., of Spring Township, Berks County, was arrested Friday and charged with t...
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Created Jun 30, 2026 / Updated Jul 10, 2026
A New Holland man was sentenced to four to eight years in state prison after he was convicted for seriously injuring his passenger in a head-on crash while driving under the influence of multiple drugs. Judge Thomas Sponaugle sentenced Anthony J. Almeida, of the 400 block of B...
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Created Jun 30, 2026 / Updated Jul 9, 2026
The Lancaster County Drug Task Force arrested a city man last month for allegedly selling bulk fentanyl and cocaine from his residence. Francisco Mercado, 50, was charged with four counts of possession with intent to distribute, one count of possession of drug paraphernalia an...
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Jul 8, 2026
Update (4:43 p.m., July 8, 2026): This post has been updated to include a photo of the victim, Anthony Stoy-Velazquez. Columbia Borough police are asking the public for information regarding an apparent stabbing that left a man dead early Wednesday morning. Police found 26-yea...
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