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In what prosecutors called a “senseless, vicious act of violence,” a Delaware County man admitted to fatally shooting a Philadelphia man and wounding four others during an altercation inside an East Norriton bowling alley.

NORRISTOWN — A Philadelphia woman accused of supplying the drugs that led to the overdose death of a Willow Grove man will face a jury that will decide her fate in September. The jury trial for Johneia Marie Garrett, 26, of the 1500 block of Widener Place, will begin on Sept. 13, according to an order issued by Montgomery County Judge William R. Carpenter, who will preside over the trial, which is expected to last five days. Garrett, who listed a previous address along the 1900 block of Co...

NORRISTOWN — A Pottstown man is on his way to state prison after he admitted to his role in the overdose death of another man who was found dead in a vehicle on a parking lot of an apartment complex in the borough. Javier Esteban Velez, 24, of the unit block of North Franklin Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 4 to 8 years in a state correctional facility after he pleaded guilty to a charge of drug delivery resulting in death in connection with the Oct. 29, 2019, fatal ove...

POTTSTOWN — Two Montgomery County men have been held for trial for their alleged roles in the overdose death of another man, whose body was dropped off at a Pottstown hospital during an attempted cover-up of the incident. Ronald Lee Shock, 35, of the 100 block of Montgomery Avenue, Douglass (Mont.) Township, and Joshua Kyle Benner, 28, of the 100 block of Hopewell Lane, Franconia Township, each was ordered to stand trial, after their preliminary hearings before District Court Judge Edward ...