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Elizabethtown Police File Two Homicide Charges Days Apart

Dan Robrish/The Elizabethtown Advocate Posted on August 16, 2018August 15, 2018

Elizabethtown police have filed criminal homicide charges against two defendants in unrelated cases just days apart. David Mikeal Skalla, 24, of Elizabethtown was charged with criminal homicide and aggravated assault on Friday, Aug. 10, the same day that victim Blake John Shearer, 16, of Bainbridge, died at Hershey Medical Center. Police allege that Skalla attacked […]

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Prayer Vigil Held for Teen Who Died After Attack in Park

Dan Robrish/The Elizabethtown Advocate Posted on August 10, 2018August 10, 2018

Hundreds of people gathered in Elizabethtown Community Park for a candlelight prayer vigil following the death of a teenage boy from injuries he sustained when he was assaulted in the same park days earlier. Blake John Shearer, 16, of Bainbridge, died the afternoon of Friday, Aug. 10, at Hershey Medical Center. He had been attacked […]

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Police Chief: Photo on Social Media Isn’t of Assault Suspect

Dan Robrish Posted on August 9, 2018August 10, 2018

A photo being circulated on social media that is purported to be the suspect in the assault of a teenager is really a picture of someone with no involvement in the case at all, police said. A 16-year-old boy from Bainbridge was severely beaten in Elizabethtown Community Park on Monday, Aug. 6. Police said a […]

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Conoy, East Donegal, Marietta in Talks Over Cost of Police Protection

Dan Robrish/The Elizabethtown Advocate, Nicole E. Matthews/Special to the Advocate Posted on May 10, 2018

Negotiations between the three municipalities served by the Susquehanna Regional Police Department about how the cost of running the department should be shared have led to concerns that Conoy Township might pull out of the regional police force, but the chairman of Conoy Township’s supervisors emphasized that the township is committed to maintaining 24-hour police […]

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Shooting Defendant Accused of Taking Gun in Burglary

Dan Robrish Posted on May 3, 2018May 2, 2018

An East Donegal Township man already accused of attempted murder in a Dauphin County shooting is now accused of stealing a gun from a house in Elizabethtown. The crimes are not believed to be related. Elizabethtown Police Detective Matthew T. Shuey said the gun stolen in Elizabethtown is not believed to have been used in […]

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Reward Offered For Information About Downtown Hit-Run

Dan Robrish Posted on May 3, 2018May 2, 2018

A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered by Lancaster City/County Crime Stoppers for information about a hitand- run crash in downtown Elizabethtown that left a pedestrian severely injured. The victim was crossing West High Street at Market Street at about 9:25 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28, when he was struck by a vehicle. […]

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Adult, 3 Juveniles Charged in Burglary At Trop Gun Shop

Dan Robrish Posted on April 19, 2018April 18, 2018

A Harrisburg man and three male juveniles from Harrisburg are accused of breaking in to the Trop Gun Shop in February and taking 16 guns. Police announced on Monday, April 16, that Tarahjay Mykell Ross has been charged, but remained at large. Police said on Wednesday, April 18, that Ross had turned himself in. Court […]

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Fiery Crash Kills Bainbridge Man

Dan Robrish Posted on April 9, 2018

A 38-year-old Bainbridge man has died in a crash near the trash incinerator in Conoy Township. The Susquehanna Regional Police Department said it happened at 5:40 a.m. on Monday, April 9, near the trash-to-energy incinerator operated by the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority. A tractor-trailer with a 73-year-old driver was going north on River […]

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Police Seek Public’s Help Finding Hit-Run Driver

Dan Robrish Posted on March 30, 2018

Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a driver who struck a pedestrian downtown, leaving him seriously injured, then fled the scene. Police said it happened at about 9:25 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28. The man was crossing West High Street at Market Street when he was struck by a vehicle. He was taken […]

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Driver’s License Left at Scene of Robbery in Elizabethtown

Dan Robrish/The Elizabethtown Advocate Posted on March 22, 2018March 22, 2018

One of two people charged in the robbery of an Uber driver in Elizabethtown made it easy for police to identify her by leaving her purse behind with her driver’s license in it, court records show. The other is accused of striking the victim on the head and arm with a hatchet and was quickly […]