On Monday January 30, 2023, a jury trial began in front of the Honorable Judge Christylee Peck. On Wednesday February 1, 2023, the jury found Anthony Beckem Jr. guilty of Rape by Forcible Compulsion, Rape of a Child, Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse, Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse...

January 31, 2023 : Commonwealth v. James Allen Brown - Following a plea to Aggravated Assault and Robbery, James Allen Brown was sentenced on January 31, 2023, by the Honorable Judge Jessica E. Brewbaker to an aggregate sentence of 7 to 14 years in a State Correctional Institution. The conviction...

A Defendant who left court and fled during the middle of his trial earlier this week has been taken into custody. On January 26, 2023, law enforcement in Perry County, Pennsylvania arrested Joel Richard Kent, 33, without incident. Mr. Kent had failed to appear for the second day of a jury trial...

On Tuesday, January 24, 2023, a Cumberland County jury returned a guilty verdict against defendant Joel Richard Kent on one count of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, one count of Discharge of a Firearm into an Occupied Structure, and one count of Carrying a Firearm Without a License. The...

On January 10, 2023, defendant Devontay McFadden entered a guilty plea to one count of Delivery of Controlled Substance – Fentanyl and one count of Delivery of Controlled Substance – Heroin in two separate cases that arose out of two separate criminal incidents in the spring of 2021. The Defendant...