NYC Couple Convicted In Sesame Place Attack On Teen Employee
Credit: Bucks County District Attorney’s Office
A couple was convicted late this week for a violent attack at Sesame Place last summer that gained national attention.
Troy McCoy, 40, and Shakerra Bonds, 32, both of Bronx, New York, were accused of striking the then-17-year-old employee at the Middletown Township theme park on August 9, 2020. The assault on the boy came after a dispute over wearing a mask as part of the park and state’s COVID-19 mitigation measures.
McCoy was found guilty Friday evening by a jury of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, simple assault, harassment, and disorderly conduct. Bonds was found guilty of simple assault and disorderly conduct. McCoy was found not guilty of conspiracy, and Bonds was found not guilty of simple assault for striking another employee and on a charge of conspiracy.
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Warminster allowed a former police officer accused last month of sexually abusing four boys he met on the job to quietly retire in 2009 with a “work-related disability” and collect more than $180,000, plus a monthly pension.
James Christopher Carey, 53, of Cape May Court House, New Jersey, received an “honorable discharge” under the 2009 settlement, which allowed him to receive work-related disability benefits.
The revelation of the retirement deal became public following Carey’s arrest last month on more than 100 counts of child sex abuse charges, as well as charges of official oppression following a lengthy Bucks County Detectives investigation and inquiry by a Bucks County Investigating Grand Jury.
UpdatedThu, Apr 22, 2021 at 5:29 pm ET
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A Philadelphia man breached courthouse security and injured several deputies at the Bucks County Justice Center in Doylestown on Wednesday morning, authorities said. (Peter Blanchard/Patch)
DOYLESTOWN, PA A Philadelphia man is accused of breaching security at the Bucks County Justice Center on Wednesday and injuring four deputies who tried to detain him after he failed to respond to verbal commands, according to charging documents.
Shortly after 10 a.m., 43-year-old Jeffrey Dingle walked into the front entrance of the main floor of the Justice Center at 100 N. Main St, Doylestown, and proceeded to breach the security area and walk briskly toward the stair tower, ignoring commands from a deputy sheriff, authorities said.
UpdatedTue, Apr 13, 2021 at 8:58 pm ET
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The Bucks County Justice Center in Doylestown. (Peter Blanchard/Patch)
DOYLESTOWN, PA A former top prosecutor in the Bucks County District Attorney s Office who was demoted last month has filed for resignation.
The departure of Assistant District Attorney Gregg Shore will become effective Wednesday, a DA s spokesperson confirmed.
Once the second-in-command in the district attorney s office, the longtime prosecutor s resignation comes less than a month after news of his side job as a DoorDash delivery driver at times during normal work hours became public.
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Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub had said that Shore had exercised poor judgment but decided not to fire him in part due to past performance, perhaps most notably as the lead prosecutor in the Cosmo DiNardo and Sean Kratz 2017 murder trial.