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WTXF Fox 29 News At 6PM October 8, 2014

And now to develo developiny were following in Montgomery County tonight. A mother of a mother is charged with buying and giving her teenaged daughter drugs. 35 year old Patricia Davenport is seen here in police custody. One of her friends is also under arrest tonight and facing the same charges and it is all left their community stunned. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser has more on where they were getting the drugs and what they were giving out. Hes live outside the Montgomery County District Attorneys Office in norristown. Dave. Reporter dawn, investigators say when Patricia Davenport drove to philadelphia with her eight year old son and her 15 year old daughter in the car to buy heroin, she wouldnt even wait until she returned to harleysville to start using the drugs. They claim she injected herself, her daughter and her daughters boyfriend on the ride back to the suburbs. Tonight shes behind bars with another suspect in the case that police and parents are just shaking their head about. Just shocking. I guess you never know. Reporter neighbors at the complex where 35 year old Patricia Davenport lived until recently were stunned to hear that she now stands charged with a long list of crimes. For allegedly buying and supplying heroin and other drugs to her 15 year old daughter and her daughters 16 year old boyfriend. Adults do have a lot of influence over kids and such, and sometimes you need to be better role model. Reporter she was arrested wednesday and charged after police say she had been taking her daughter and eight year old stepson to seventh and russell in philadelphia three to five times a week to buy heroin, cocaine and prescription drugs. For a mother to not only bring their child to philadelphia to purchase drugs on numerous occasions but to introduce her to the use of heroin and to inject her with heroin is unbelievable. Reporter davenport lived here on montgomery drive in harleysville until recently moving out. Police say she would do drugs an allow her daughter to snort or inject heroin right here. When i read this story about these allegations of a mother introducing her child to a drug like heroin, the devils poison, i am really at a loss for words. Reporter davenport said nothing during her Court Appearance except to ask for a public defender. Her bail was set at 50,000 cash. You see people coming from as far away as harleysville driving into north philadelphia straight corners to pick up heroin gives you some idea the magnitude of this heroin problem now. Reporter no doubt about that. Meghan rudolph will be in court tomorrow. Shes the codefendant in this case. Davenport has a preliminary hearing set for october 17th. Again, behind bars tonight on 50,000 cash bail. Dawn . All right, really hard to comprehend, thank you, dave. Police in berks county say tonight a bad batch of synthetic marijuana continues to send people to the hospital there. Police say the Emergency Department at Reading Hospital has been flooded with patients overdosing and getting sick from batch of k2. 55 people have been seen over the past seven days according to officials. Police believe the marijuana was laced with heroin. Tests are being done to confirm that. Investigators are trying to track down the supplier so far no arrests. A philadelphia firefighter is okay after getting hurt in an afternoon house fire in at a kenny. The two alarm fire broke out on a second floor bedroom of the 4600 block of princeton street. One firefighter fell through the floor. He was taken to the hospital. We are told he is injured his head but his condition is not life threatening. Everyone else who lives in the home escaped but a Family Member tells us most everything inside is gone. Firefighters tell us the closest fire station engine 38 is only a few blocks away, but was closed today because of budget cuts. Fright phil hold up tt bank in hatboro. Police say man wearing a halloween mask walk into the bank on south york road pulled out a gun den manned money from the teller. He took off with the cash and a dark blue buick with stolen pennsylvania plate. Investigators believe he robbed that same bank back in july with a bandana covering his face. If you know anything at all, give police call. A cool night ahead in your fox 29 Weather Authority much heres a live look outside at center city. The rain has moved out. Kind of a bout full evening right now. Temperatures, though, are a little bit cool and things are going to get even cooler later tonight. Heres chief meteorologist Scott Williams standing by what we can expect. High pressure is moving and in that mean clear skies across the area for tonight. Still a little breezy, though, but those winds will diminish overnight. So those temperatures will be dropping. But High Pressure right now stationed around parts of the great lakes the ohio river valley looking pretty good to the west of us. Right now richmond quiet. Philadelphia good. Boston perhaps folks there headed to td garden as the flyers are taking on the bruins. Weather looking comfortable there. But for us right now, its 72 degrees. Humidity at 40 . The sun will set this evening at 6 30. Winds out of the west right now at 13 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia. Out of the west in lancaster at 15 Miles Per Hour. So by 7 00 oclock were looking at temperatures in the upper 60s. Mid 60s by 9 00. 60 degrees well call it cool by 11 00. Low temperatures tonight will bottom out in the 40s and 50s. Coming up the timing of more rainfall as well as cooler temperatures with the seven day forecast. Dawn and iain . All right, thank you, scott. Talk about crime of opportunity in kensington. Police say this video shows two men in the. Lupe Grocery Store on g street last week. The man in front accidentally leaves his tablet on the counter when he walks away the man right behind him, well, he takes it. If you recognize the thief call police. State police say have discovered accused cop killer eric frein chilling diary in it he describes the ambush that killed one trooper and wounded another. One Police Official calls the actions frein details as quote pure evil. Besides a graphic account of the ambush police say frein described his get away driving into a pond and ditching his a ak47. Frein has been on the run for nearly a month. Despite a massive manhunt that has cost millions. Dozens of students came out to support their teachers today in a protest outside Philadelphia School district headquarters. The teachers expired contract was canceled on monday. So the district could begin to make them contribute to the cost of their health insurance. School Officials Say that would generate 44 million a year which will go directly into the schools. The Teachers Union says it will challenge the canceling of the contract in court. Philadelphia police are hoping that you can help them track down a missing teenager take a look 14 year old maya patrick was last seen on sunday night at her home on the 1500 block of sergeant street. Police say that maya suffers from a medical condition which requires medication. If youve seen this teenager or may know where she is, youre asked to applies give police a call. Possible in a West Philadelphia neighborhood are feeling uneasy tonight after lot of cars are broken into and vandalized. Neighbors waking up this morning to find their tires slashed and their belongings stolen from their cars. Nearly a dozen vehicles were targeted nearly 200 block of south faragut street. The vandals swiped wallets, registration cards, even toys and strollers from trunks. Some of the victims say thats right worried about the personal information the thieves got their hands on. Whats on this persons mind what harm could they do if they have our information into our homes . So everyone just kind of feels like unsafe at this point. Coming are still investigating but so far they have not made any arrests. Pennsylvania and new jersey will Work Together with two other northeastern states to fight heroin trafficking. Police say its a crime that often crosses state lines. Pennsylvania and jersey will team up with new york and massachusetts on investigations. Officials say a one dose bag can cost as little as 3 in some neighborhoods and can be easier for children to get than cigarettes. Across the country, we are losing young people and old in every Single Community in every single state. Heroin addiction, to lives of crime. Officials say soaring demand for heroin and higher Profit Margins for traffickers are now driving the drug trade. One last chance governor tom corbett and his challenger tom wolf facing off for the last time tonight hoping to appeal to voters before election day on november 4th. Debate will be held in pittsburgh and being cohosted by the Pennsylvania League of women voters and if you want to check it out we got you covered. Well be streaming the debate for you on our website its there at myfoxphilly. Com and it starts at 7 00 oclock n south jersey a big prostitution bust. This man is cued of selling sex out of an apartment. The prostitutes reported all young men. The high tech way the suspects reached his klein. Fox 29 gets results for local music legend. We are there as a pair of Good Samaritans and fox 29 viewers reunite bobby rydell with his priceless sheet music. Howard . Some say the eagles are the worst of teams at four and one in the nfl of the eagles son to the record want the eagles plan to do against the giants quarterback eli manning thats coming up in sports. New jersey man pleads guilty to Human Trafficking charges in connection to a male prostitution ring. The state attorney General Office says mark branch of venture could face five years in jail. Investigatoinvestigators say brh operated prostitution ring out of his apartment. He posted nude pictures of the young men involved on craigslist to solicit male clients and then charged up to 200 bucks for their service. Officials say at least one person involved was a minor. Branch will be sentenced in december. An incident at Philadelphia International airport last night has one passenger crying foul. Lisa Carter Knight believes she was removed from a jet blue flight for criticizing the pilot on social media. The New Hampshire marking executive and mom was flying from philadelphia to boston after visiting her sick mother here. Jet blue flight 760 was scheduled to take off around 8 25 but it already been delayed about an hour. She started writing about it on social media. Normal things that anybody would share on their Facebook Page or their twitter page. And i was told that i the pilot was not comfortable with me getting on his flight. Carter knight believes that the airline monitored or learned of her critical tweets and punished her by refusing to honor her tick. Fox 29 gets results for rock and roll singing legend bobby rydell with the help of a couple of Good Samaritans. Youll remember we told you yesterday about the weekend sort of mishap that led to the disappearance of a suitcase full of rydell priceless sheet music. Tonight you are bruce gordon here with a happy ending to this song and bruce you said this was going to end on happy note. Reporter we were right. Sheet mewing is with arrangements created specifically for rydell and his band represented a careers worth of work gone, maybe for good. But tonight, its all back where it belongs. Thanks to couple of our viewers. Mommy, look what i found mommy, a present. Reporter bobby rydell it was christ nass in october. Thats it. Wrapped and returned suitcase packed with priceless sheet music that fell out of the open hatch in rydells moving suv after a saturday night concert at Marple Newtown high school. It was all there. Music and arrangements for rydell and his band that took decades to create. Drums and it keeps on going, trumpets, trombones, sacks phones. Reporter steve tailor and his girlfriend jesse found it while driving down west chester pike moments after it fell out of rydells vehicle. They opened the case and saw rydells name on the music. A little young. Did it ring a bell for you at all . I hate to say it did not. But, um, when we like started to look him up, because we saw wildwood days, that he sang, and then, um, unfortunately, i hate to say my grandmom is a huge fan. Steve went to rydells face bock page and saw him directing fans to my report about the lost music. You see the story and what goes through your mind . Panic. Instantly. All i could think get this back to bobby. Needs it. I just i felt bad. I felt terrible. It was just sitting in my room for three days. Reporter fox 29 we like to say we get results. But even we didnt think former teen idol and music legend would be among those we helped. You did good. Did you real good. Thank you, bruce, thank you fox. Thank you everybody. Thank you bobby. I appreciate it. Biggest thanks go to steve and jesse. They could have kept the music or sold it on ebay. But they did not. Stand up people. There is some humanity here in the united states. God bless the both of them. I feel great. Its such a relief to see. The look on bobbys face just seeing that thats probably thats all you need. Reporter all you need. Maybe but a grateful rydell gave the couple a couple the couple a collection of cds autographed photos, oh, yeah an 500 reward. Thats ending the story on the right note. Iain . It certainly is. Nice work, bruce. Thanks to our viewers as always. All right. Turning to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. A Beautiful Day today. But temperatures are going to drop a little bit tonight. Well feel a big difference, scott. Thats right. Were talking about highs today iain and dawn in the mid 70s. Tomorrow upper 60s. Even lower than that as we move into friday and also the weeke weekend. As we look at the satellite and radar, last nights system, it is long gone. And, of course, we saw some showers and thunderstorms quarter to half an inch on average certainly heavy rain last night across the area. But you can see the totals pretty uniform across the area a quarter of an inch to half an inch. 75 degrees that was the High Temperature for today. The morning low 62 degrees. The normal this time of year is in the upper 60s. But look at the record high. 89 degrees set back in 2007. The sun sets this evening shortly after 6 30. So temperatures right now, pretty comfortable. 72 degrees. Winds are still out of the west breezy at 13 Miles Per Hour. So its going to be a pretty nice sunset across the area. Looking at those winds right now, out of the west at 15 Miles Per Hour in lancaster but calm winds currently in wildwood. So by tonight, not quite as gusty as they were during the day. Up to 30 Miles Per Hour. So the satellite and radar as we take a look at whats happening, not whole lot. High pressure will be settling in overhead for tonight as well as throughout the day on thursday. So thursday is dry but take look at what happens. Well watch some moisture stream out of the southwest and eventually toward the ohio river valley by friday. So by friday afternoon, were going to watch mostly cloudy skies across the area as well as some pockets of drizzle, some showers, its going to be chilly as we move into your friday time frame. Heres 4 00 p. M. You can see south jersey, central and southern sections of delaware, looking at that light rainfall. Its going to be pretty overcast area wide as well as just damp conditions. So as we take a look at the clock by friday night, you can see most of the coverage is in south jersey and delaware, but well still have some drizzle north and west of that. Moving toward the weekend, you can see saturday morning, were still looking at clouds as well as showers across the area. So this pattern will remain locked in. Unfortunately, for much of the weekend as we move toward saturday at lunch time, still cloudy across the area but most of the rainfall will move to the south and that bound degree will stall to the south and then eventually well see more rainfall potentially sunday night into monday. Look at the tropics as we move to the pacific. This is a massive category five system. Its super typhoon. It will eventually move toward tokyo. It has weakened a bit. Winds yesterday were 180. Right now theyre at 165 Miles Per Hour. So for tonight, upper 40 toss low 50s across the area and then tomorrow, cooler than today. Upper 60s for High Temperatures. That seven day forecast showing you friday the next chance for rainfall cloudy, damp, temperatures in the 60s for friday. Saturday, sunday we could even see some rainfall sunday night for the eagles game. Well keep you posted. Howard said it wasnt going to rain on monday on sunday. I said ill weight day. Wait a day. It can change. Its isolated. All right. The eagles the worse four and one team in the nfl . If it doesnt rain, well fine out. But the eagles respond about that fourone record. Eli manning can be a turnover machine eagles plan to try to make that happen on sunday. Hear from th feet note. The eagles have what i think is the biggest game of the season so far. I realize they play the redskins, they stink. And San Francisco which is not as good as people think they are but the new york giants coming in on sunday night, the biggest game yet. Eagles are four and one and the giants are three and two but the giants have won three straight. The focus on most teams would be the quarterback. That would be eli manning for the g

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