PHILADELPHIA (February 9, 2023) – The District Attorney’s Office Homicide/Non-Fatal Shootings Unit has approved charges of Attempted Murder and related offenses against an individual from Delaware County for shooting at two Philadelphia Police officers, one of whom was seriously...
PHILADELPHIA (February 9, 2023) – Nearly eight months after formally taking the position that a Philadelphia woman’s constitutional rights had been violated as a teenager when she was arrested and tried for a 2010 robbery and murder, the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on Thursday agreed...
PHILADELPHIA (February 8, 2023) – The District Attorney’s Office this week secured the conviction of a defendant who participated in a brutal home invasion and group assault of a Black trans woman in the summer of 2020. Tymesha Wearing (DOB: 7/28/1986) on Tuesday pleaded guilty to Aggravated...
PHILADELPHIA (February 6, 2023) — District Attorney Larry Krasner and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Homicide and Non-Fatal Shooting Unit announced the conviction of Eugene Watson (DOB 6/19/1993) for his role in the non-fatal shooting of a man in the city’s Overbrook...
PHILADELPHIA (January 27, 2023) – Following is a statement from District Attorney Larry Krasner on the killing of Tyre Nichols, 29, following a traffic stop earlier this month. Five Memphis Police officers have since been fired from the department and criminally charged with murder....
PHILADELPHIA (January 25, 2023) – The District Attorney’s Office has charged Edwin Vargas (DOB: 5/28/1998) for his role in multiple fatal and non-fatal shooting incidents that appear to be connected by a history of intimate partner violence and group violence. Vargas was most recently convicted...
PHILADELPHIA (January 23, 2023) – The District Attorney’s Office on Monday secured the conviction of a Philadelphia man arrested for sexually assaulting a woman who was on her way to work in 2020. In the early morning hours of January 25, 2020, Philadelphia Police responded to bystander reports...
PHILADELPHIA (January 23, 2023) — District Attorney Larry Krasner and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit announced the conviction of James McFadden (11/1/82) after a Philadelphia jury found the defendant guilty of numerous charges relating to...
PHILADELPHIA (January 17, 2023) — District Attorney Larry Krasner and members of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Gun Violence Task Force announced charges against Luis Soto (DOB 10/7/1993) for trafficking ‘ghost guns’ that were manufactured at his residence on the...
PHILADELPHIA (January 13, 2023) – An opinion and order released by the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania rejected attempts by Republicans in the General Assembly to use the impeachment process to remove the District Attorney of Philadelphia from office for political reasons. District Attorney...