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Welcome from DA Heather Adams

Welcome to our virtual newsroom on the CRIMEWATCH Network. This site is designed to build collaboration between criminal justice groups and ...
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Lancaster County DA's Human Trafficking Task Force: 2025 in ...

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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Our Mission

The Lancaster County Office of the District Attorney is dedicated to achieving justice and protecting the safety of our community. We thorou...
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The 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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Lancaster Safety Coalition pictures help convict Salisbury T...

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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District Attorney Heather Adams Announces Lancaster Law Enfo...

The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office announces our Lancaster Law Enforcement series, which will begin Monday, January 9, 2023, ...
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Boys and Girls Club and Safety Coalition Among Six Organizat...

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. Provides Multiple Resources in P...

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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District Attorney Heather Adams Announces Virtual Victims of...

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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National Dog Week: Tresi, Courthouse Companion Dog, Makes A ...

Attending court proceedings can be stressful, especially for witnesses and victims.That’s where Tresi, Lancaster County District Attorneyâ...
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Image for East Earl Township man sentenced up to 25 years in prison after pleading no contest to sexually assaulting children
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Created Apr 13, 2026 / Updated May 1, 2026
A judge sentenced an East Earl Township man to 12 and a half to 25 years in state prison after he pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting three juveniles, just days before his trial was set to begin. Christopher Todd Zweifel, 59, pleaded guilty before Judge Thomas Sponaugle ...
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Image for Warwick Township man charged with assaulting man outside Lancaster city bar waives preliminary hearing
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Created Apr 10, 2026 / Updated Apr 30, 2026
A Warwick Township man charged with assaulting a man outside a Lancaster city bar will have his case proceed to county court after waiving his preliminary hearing earlier this month. Connor Adrian Shockley, of the 500 block of Farmwood Circle, waived his preliminary hearing be...
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Image for Lancaster Township man charged in city shooting waives preliminary hearing
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Created Apr 10, 2026 / Updated Apr 29, 2026
A Lancaster Township man charged with shooting at a man in a city neighborhood will have his case proceed to county court after waiving his preliminary hearing earlier this month. Efrain Torres-Ramos, of the 200 block of Kentshire Drive in Lancaster Township, waived his prelim...
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Image for Judge sentences Manor Township woman to up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to 2022 crime spree
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Created Apr 7, 2026 / Updated Apr 28, 2026
A judge sentenced a Manor Township woman to five to 10 years in state prison after she pleaded guilty earlier this year of committing a series of crimes in East Lampeter Township in 2022, including leading police on a dangerous high-speed chase and selling deadly drugs from a ...
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Image for Judge sentences city man up to 21 years in prison after pleading guilty to taking part in 2022 botched robbery of stolen gun that left co-conspirator dead, teen wounded
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Created Apr 7, 2026 / Updated Apr 27, 2026
A judge sentenced a city man to 10 and a half to 21 years in state prison after he pleaded guilty earlier this year of taking part in the botched robbery of a stolen handgun that resulted in one of his co-conspirators being shot to death and a teenager being seriously injured....
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Image for Former doctor sentenced up to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to sharing child porn with 13-year-old
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Created Apr 22, 2026 / Updated Apr 24, 2026
A former medical doctor at Lancaster General Hospital was sentenced to three to nine years in state prison after he pleaded guilty this week to sending inappropriate messages to a 13-year-old girl, including images depicting child pornography. Judge Merrill Spahn sentenced Fra...
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Image for Commonwealth successfully defends dismissal of West Lampeter Township convicted murderer's petition for compassionate release on appeal
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Created Apr 21, 2026 / Updated Apr 23, 2026
The Superior Court of Pennsylvania upheld the dismissal of a West Lampeter Township convicted murderer’s petition to be released from his life sentence to receive medical care. In an April 20 non-precedential decision the Superior Court wrote that Lancaster County Judge Jeffer...
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Image for Commonwealth secures guilty verdict of Caernarvon Township man for raping teenager in 1990s following jury trial
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Apr 22, 2026
A Lancaster County jury convicted a Caernarvon Township man of raping a teenager decades ago following a three-day trial last week. The jury found Roberto Rosario, of the 500 block of East Maple Street, guilty on April 17 of rape by forcible compulsion, involuntary deviate sex...
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Image for Chester County man charged with injuring 3 in crash during high-speed race waives preliminary hearing
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Created Apr 7, 2026 / Updated Apr 21, 2026
A Chester County man charged with injuring three people after crashing into them during a high-speed race in which he was fleeing police will have his case proceed to county court after waiving his preliminary hearing earlier this month. Jesus Juarez-Juarez, of Atglen Borough,...
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Image for Elizabethtown man charged with shooting man to death has case proceed to county court
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Created Apr 7, 2026 / Updated Apr 20, 2026
An Elizabethtown man charged with shooting a man to death outside his home will have his case proceed to county court following a preliminary hearing earlier this month. Judge Frank Ember ruled March 31 that the case of Bradley Dean Yinger, 27, could proceed to the Court of Co...
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