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Christian Ochoa, 28, of Laredo, Texas, and Edith Tomasa Rodriguez Cardenas, 27, of Huntington Park, California. (Bucks County District Attorney s Office)
DOYLESTOWN, PA What started off as a routine traffic stop in Bedminster Township Friday night led to a drug investigation and the seizure of nearly $4 million worth of illicit drugs, the Bucks County District Attorney s Office said Thursday.
Bedminster Township Officer officer James Zukow pulled over a Jeep for swerving and the driver, later identified as 28-year-old Christian Ochoa, of Laredo, Texas, consented to a search, which led to the seizure of one kilogram of heroin and fentanyl and nine kilograms of cocaine with a street value of $1.2 million.
Upper Bucks woman gets probation for stealing from medical company
Editor s note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the charges she pleaded to. This article has been updated.
An Upper Bucks woman will spend three years on probation and must pay restitution after pleading guilty to stealing thousands from her employer, according to authorities.
On Thursday, Shae Kennedy Reber, 44, was sentenced and ordered to pay $75,000 for stealing from interVIEW Medical Systems, according to Manuel Gamiz Jr., spokesman for the Bucks County District Attorney s Office.
Reber had already repaid $65,000 prior to sentencing. Gamiz said the restitution was the amount agreed to by the victim.
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A former Palisades High School math teacher and athletic coach is facing one year behind bars for secretly taking upskirt photos of female students and sharing them online with the intention to masturbate to them, authorities said.
Francis James Reppert Jr., 27, of Quakertown pleaded guilty to indecent exposure and invasion of privacy on Oct. 6, according to the Bucks County District Attorney s Office.
Reppert was charged last January following an investigation that began in October 2019, after a student captured a video of him viewing, and zooming in on a photo of what appeared to be a student’s legs, authorities said.
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A New Jersey woman is facing 12 to 24 years behind bars for driving drunk into oncoming traffic on Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania leaving three people dead, authorities said.
Priscilla Cortez, 34, of Camden, was heading southbound on the highway when she struck a car carrying Ryan Connell, 28, Leanne Popson, 35, both of the Levittown area, and Lucas Gelatko, 36, of Yardley, near mile marker 33 around 1:40 a.m. April 1, 2020, according to the Bucks County District Attorney s Office.
All three victims in the Bensalem crash had children, authorities said.
Surveillance tapes showed Cortez had been driving 69 miles per hour when she crashed in a 55 mph zone, authorities said.
N.J. woman sentenced to 12 to 24 years in prison for drunken, wrong-way crashed that killed 3
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A New Jersey woman on Monday was sentenced to 12 to 24 years in a Pennsylvania state prison for a drunken, wrong-way crash on Interstate 95 last year that left three dead.
A judge sitting in Bucks County C. Theodore Frisch Jr. handed Priscilla Cortez, 34, of Camden the sentence after hearing victim impact statements from family members.
Cortez was driving south in the northbound lanes around 1:40 a.m. on April 1 when she slammed into another vehicle in Bensalem, killing the three occupants.
Cortez, who was traveling 69 mph in a 55 mph zone, had a blood-alcohol content that was 0.156 percent, the Bucks County District Attorney said. She also had marijuana in her system.