Prison Warden Gone, Second County Leader Out This Week
The Bucks County Correctional Facility’s warden is out.
Warden Paul Lagana is gone as the top leader at the Doylestown Township campus that has been in the headlines for how the county handles people with mental health problemsand COVID-19 cases behind bars.
Sources with knowledge of correctional center operations said management acknowledged Lagana would no longer being running the facility over the past days.
The reason for Lagana’s departure was not released.
“Paul Lagana’s separation from employment with the county becomes effective this Monday, Jan. 4. Because we don’t comment publicly on personnel issues I can’t elaborate on the circumstances,” said county communications director Larry King.
DOYLESTOWN A 30-year-old woman was sentenced on April 1 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 boyfriendâs inmate account at the Bucks County Correctional Facility. More Headlines
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Authorities on Wednesday announced the arrest of a 52-year-old man in the deadly October shooting of 18-year-old Jason Albert Kutt in Nockamixon State Park.
Kenneth Troy Heller, 52, of Warminster, surrendered to authorities on Dec. 30, Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub said. Clearly this isn’t a perfect ending,” he said. “Perfect would mean we have Jason back. But that’s just not how real life works, that’s not how criminal justice works, so this isn’t even really a happy ending, but it is a fair and a just and a final ending.”
Kutt, of Sellersville, was sitting with his girlfriend at the edge of the lake near the Old Ridge Road access to the park waiting for the sun to set with his girlfriend around 5:15 p.m. on Oct. 24.
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A man with a distinctly-braided beard wanted for swiping more than $1,300 in allergy medication from a Pennsylvania CVS was arrested in New Jersey, authorities said.
A white man with a long beard braided in the center of his chin later identified as Kevin Cross entered the CVS store at 755 Durham Road in Wrightstown around 6 p.m. Dec. 6, local police said.
Cross took several over-the-counter allergy medications, totaling over $1,300, then fled in a black BMW with New Jersey plates, authorities said.
A warrant for Cross arrest on Dec. 9, police said. He was arrested on Dec. 22 by Mount Laurel police, and extradited by the Bucks County Sheriff s Department on Dec. 24.
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The inmate who died earlier this week while in custody at the Bucks County Correctional Facility died by suicide.
Paul Steele, 46, of Warminster Township, was found unresponsive in his cell at the county correctional facility in Doylestown Township late Wednesday afternoon. He died by hanging, according to Bucks County Coroner Meredith Buck.
Steele was being held on a burglary case out of Tinicum Township. He was arrested on December 9 and being detained on 10 percent of $75,000.
The coroner’s office, which conducted an autopsy Saturday, took part in an investigation by the Bucks County Department of Corrections and Bucks County District Attorney’s Office.