FTC: Telemarketing scam aimed at seniors halted
Judge freezes assets of defendants, accused of stealing millions
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has moved to close down a multi-million dollar telemarketing fraud that targeted U.S. seniors across the nation, scamming tens of thousands of consumers.
On March 18, U.S. District Judge J. Curtis Joyner, a former Chester County Court jurist, issued a temporary order to halt the scam, an FTC news release...
Orphans’ Court seeking extra ‘eyes and ears’
County’s Volunteer Guardianship Program looking for participants
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Diane P. Mulhearn (left), the Volunteer Guardianship Program coordinator, and Nancy Breuer, Assistant Orphans’ Court Administrator, review files for the program.
A few years back, a Chester County woman’s drug-addicted son, who had been appointed his mother’s guardian, began...
3rd defendant gets life in Coatesville slaying
Shamone ‘Kadoff’ Woods also ordered to pay more than $31,000 in restitution
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
The third of four defendants charged with executing a 33-year-old Coatesville barbershop owner in 2006 received a mandatory life sentence for first-degree murder in Chester County Court on Monday.
With minimal comment, Judge David Bortner imposed the penalty on Shamone...
West Chester man charged with kiddie porn
State police lodge 502 felony counts against 24-year-old
A 24-year-old West Chester man faces child pornography charges, state police said in a news release.
Justin E. Gold was arraigned on Friday, Dec. 6, on 502 felony counts, including possession and dissemination of child pornography, police said.
In September, members of the Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Central...
