Philly PD welcomes largest recruitment class since May of 2018
Class 402 officially entered the academy Monday morning.
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Class 402 officially entered the academy Monday morning.
First Deputy John Stanford Jr. will serve as interim police commissioner for the city.
This happened on the 8600 block of Ditman Street around 11 p.m.
Last month, a court-appointed psychiatrist found Kimbrady Carriker, the accused shooter, unfit to stand trial.
Philadelphia police are investigating a shooting involving a 14-year-old boy in the city's Germantown neighborhood.
A Philadelphia officer shot an armed robbery suspect in Kensington Thursday night, police say.
Police made a plea for help Friday afternoon to find the person responsible for the death of an 80-year-old grandmother.
This week, law enforcement captured Danelo Cavalcante and took him into custody after a 14-day manhunt.
Domair Brown, 31 of Sharon Hill, was arrested and is expected to be arraigned Thursday for the fatal hit-and-run of 27-year-old Ashley McLean.
While the nation has been transfixed by the two-week manhunt in Pennsylvania, another fugitive drama has been playing out in the nation's capital with comparatively minimal attention.
The search for escaped prisoner Danelo Cavalcante came to an end on Wednesday on the 14th day of the manhunt in South Coventry Township.
Law enforcement breaks down the events leading up to the recapture of Danelo Cavalcante.
Danelo Cavlancate is expected to be questioned, processed and transferred to a state institute to serve his life sentence after being recaptured Wednesday.
In Ludwig's Corner, a village south of Nantmeal Township, the streets are silent with the exception of police speeding in and out of the search perimeters where the hunt for Cavalcante continues.
A tip line has been set up and a $25,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the capture of an escaped Chester County inmate.
The family of Carmen Vargas claims her gruesome death bore "too many similarities" to the Gilgo four slayings that Rex Heuermann is accused of committing.
Escaped prisoner Danelo Cavalcante is still on the run Sunday despite police recovering a van he stole Saturday from a local dairy farm. Officials said they believe he is still in the state of Pennsylvania.
A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from the theft and sale of human body parts taken from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary.
One day after Cavalcante escaped from prison, his public defender filed a motion seeking a new trial or a new sentence. A judge quickly denied the requests.
The victim has been with the Streets Department for six months, Philadelphia police said. HIs name has not yet been released.
The NAACP sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to open up an investigation into the shooting.
Neighbors who live on the border of Longwood Gardens, where Cavalcante was spotted twice Monday night, say it’s all hitting too close to home.
Escaped Chester County Prison inmate and convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante was spotted on surveillance cameras at Longwood Gardens twice Monday night, authorities said Tuesday.
One of the women depicted in drawings done by the self-proclaimed BTK serial killer, Dennis Rader, has possibly been identified, according to a sheriff in Oklahoma.
Pennsylvania State Police said Monday that there have been four credible sightings of Cavalcante, with the most recent coming Sunday.
