Calling the bail set during his preliminary arraignment "woefully inadequate," Bucks County President Judge Wallace H. Bateman Jr. on Tuesday increased the bail of former Warminster Township police officer James Carey charged with sexually abusing four teenage boys to $250,000 cash bail. Carey, 52...

The Philadelphia man who injured four teenage girls in a head-on crash in Northampton Township on March 27, 2021, is facing additional charges after test results showed his blood-alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit to drive. Shane Brolly, 24, is accused of crossing into opposing...

A 35-year-old man pleaded guilty Thursday for his involvement in a drug smuggling ring inside the Bucks County Correctional Facility and was sentenced to 35 to 70 months in state prison. Vincent McCandless Sr., 35, was among nine men that included former Bucks County corrections officer Joseph J...

A Tullytown man was sentenced Tuesday to two terms of 10 to 20 years in state prison for sexually abusing two teen boys, including a foster child in his care. John Michael Evans, 41, pleaded guilty in February to two counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and one count of sex trafficking...

A 14-year-old juvenile was charged Friday with making several false threats through the Safe2Say Something app from January to March. The juvenile faces five counts each of terroristic threats, false reports to law enforcement authorities disorderly conduct and false reports to the Safe to Say...

A 29-year-old man is being charged with attempted homicide and related charges after he fired a shotgun at his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend on Oct. 24 at the Village Square Apartments in Bensalem Township. Jerome Tyrone Jordan, with no known address, is facing one count of criminal attempt to...

Detectives with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office want to warn residents of a scam where the offender poses as a debt collector for a law firm and threatens the recipient with criminal charges and other legal action if it is not paid. A Bucks County resident recently received an email...

A former Warminster Township police officer was arrested Wednesday and charged with sexually abusing four teenage boys he encountered while working as a D.A.R.E. officer more than two decades ago. James Carey, 52, who retired from the department in 2009, was charged with Involuntary Deviate Sexual...

A 30-year-old woman was sentenced Thursday to just under one to two years in jail for stealing $17,000 from a Bristol Township cancer patient she was caring for and using some of the money to put into her boyfriend’s inmate account at the Bucks County Correctional Facility. Kelly Nichole Sharkey,...

A Philadelphia man crossed into opposing traffic to pass a vehicle Saturday night in Northampton Township, leading to a head-on crash that left several people seriously injured, including four teenage girls. Shane Brolly, 24, was arraigned at his hospital bed Sunday on five counts each of...