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October 22, 2021

DA Partners With Thompson Auto Group for Free VIN Etching on Oct. 30

A free VIN etching event will be held at Thompson Lexus in Doylestown on Saturday, Oct. 30, through a partnership between the Thompson Auto Group and the District Attorney’s Auto Theft Prevention, Awareness and Education Program. The event, sponsored through a grant from the Pennsylvania Auto Theft...

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Bucks County District Attorney's Office
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October 18, 2021

District Court Diversion Program expands its Probation Program beginning today

Starting today, Oct. 18, 2021, the District Court Diversion Program (DCDP) will expand its pilot DCDP Probation Program from 5 district courts to all 18 of them county-wide, allowing for the inclusion of additional participants who need drug treatment, but who are currently ineligible for the DCDP...

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Bucks County District Attorney's Office
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October 15, 2021

Bristol man sentenced to 19 ½ to 39 years in prison for fatal DUI crash that killed man, woman

A 38-year-old man was sentenced on Friday, Oct. 15, 2021, to 19 ½ to 39 years in a state prison for a high-speed drunk driving crash in December 2019 that killed a man and woman and seriously injured two others on I-95 in Bristol Township. Kevin R. Peters, of Bristol Township, was convicted by a...

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Bucks County District Attorney's Office
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October 15, 2021

Statement in Response to Mock Ballot Drop Box left in Bristol Borough Hall

Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub: On Tuesday afternoon I was contacted by concerned citizens about the existence of a mock ballot drop box that was placed in Bristol Borough Hall, and which had accumulated six apparent absentee votes which were deposited inside of it. That box and...

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Bucks County District Attorney's Office
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October 14, 2021

Man charged with leaving overdose victim’s body behind dumpster at Bensalem apartment complex

A 41-year-old man is being charged with abuse of corpse after a man overdosed in his Bensalem Township apartment last month, and instead of calling for help, he wrapped the victim’s body with a rope and blanket and left him behind a red dumpster of a nearby apartment complex. Maksim Stankevich is...

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Bucks County District Attorney's Office
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October 22, 2021

DA Partners With Thompson Auto Group for Free VIN Etching on Oct. 30

A free VIN etching event will be held at Thompson Lexus in Doylestown on Saturday, Oct. 30, through a partnership between the Thompson Auto Group and the District Attorney’s Auto Theft Prevention, Awareness and Education Program. The event, sponsored through a grant from the Pennsylvania Auto Theft...

Source: 

Bucks County District Attorney's Office
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October 18, 2021

District Court Diversion Program expands its Probation Program beginning today

Starting today, Oct. 18, 2021, the District Court Diversion Program (DCDP) will expand its pilot DCDP Probation Program from 5 district courts to all 18 of them county-wide, allowing for the inclusion of additional participants who need drug treatment, but who are currently ineligible for the DCDP...

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Bucks County District Attorney's Office
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October 15, 2021

Bristol man sentenced to 19 ½ to 39 years in prison for fatal DUI crash that killed man, woman

A 38-year-old man was sentenced on Friday, Oct. 15, 2021, to 19 ½ to 39 years in a state prison for a high-speed drunk driving crash in December 2019 that killed a man and woman and seriously injured two others on I-95 in Bristol Township. Kevin R. Peters, of Bristol Township, was convicted by a...

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Bucks County District Attorney's Office
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October 15, 2021

Statement in Response to Mock Ballot Drop Box left in Bristol Borough Hall

Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub: On Tuesday afternoon I was contacted by concerned citizens about the existence of a mock ballot drop box that was placed in Bristol Borough Hall, and which had accumulated six apparent absentee votes which were deposited inside of it. That box and...

Source: 

Bucks County District Attorney's Office
Read more
October 14, 2021

Man charged with leaving overdose victim’s body behind dumpster at Bensalem apartment complex

A 41-year-old man is being charged with abuse of corpse after a man overdosed in his Bensalem Township apartment last month, and instead of calling for help, he wrapped the victim’s body with a rope and blanket and left him behind a red dumpster of a nearby apartment complex. Maksim Stankevich is...

Source: 

Bucks County District Attorney's Office
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