Amsterdam woman stole $65K in child care benefits, Montgomery County Sheriff says | The Daily Gazette
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Ting Yam, 30, of Amsterdam, was charged last Friday with one count each of second-degree welfare fraud and second-degree grand larceny, both felonies, as well as 14 counts of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, also felonies.
Yam is accused of illegally taking the child care benefits by filing false applications between September 2015 and March 2020, officials said.
In all, she is accused of taking $65,139 that she wasn’t entitled to, officials said.
Yam was arraigned and released to return to court later.
Bucks and Montgomery County residents will have several locations to get rid of unused medications this month.
Police departments in both counties will be participating in the twice annual National Prescription Drug Takeback Day, a national event by the Drug Enforcement Administration, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday, April 24.
Some departments will be hosting their events at their departments, while others will be hosting events at other locations in their areas.
More than 40 departments between both counties will be hosting drug takeback events.
Prescription and over-the-counter tablets and capsules, inhalers, creams, ointments, nasal sprays, pet medicines and vaping products will be accepted, according to a news release from the Montgomery County District Attorney s Office.
NORRISTOWN â A Philadelphia man wanted for his alleged role in the Christmas Day 2012 gunshot slaying of a Norristown man was apprehended in the borough on Thursday after a pursuit during which he is accused of trying to strike a detective with a vehicle.
Rasheed Abdul Farrelle, 36, of the 4700 block of Penn Street, was arraigned via video before District Court Judge Scott Palladino on charges of first- and third-degree murder, conspiracy and person not to possess a firearm in connection with the alleged Dec. 25, 2012, fatal shooting of Paul Brown.
Prosecutors said Farrelle also was charged with aggravated and simple assault and recklessly endangering another person in connection with his alleged assault of a detective during Thursdayâs pursuit.
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When he took the bench in 2019, the seats in Harris County Court at Law Judge Franklin Bynum s misdemeanor courtroom used to be filled with people trying to fight possession of marijuana cases.
Now, nearly two years after a change to Texas agriculture laws made it legal for farmers to grow hemp, Bynum s court rarely sees those cases. Marijuana is still illegal in Texas, but the law made it harder, more expensive and more labor-intensive for investigators to differentiate between the illegal drug and legal hemp.
13 Investigates analyzed pot possession cases in Harris County and the surrounding area starting a year before the law changed. We compared it with the 19 months after the law changed.