PHILADELPHIA (November 29, 2022) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Tuesday issued the following statement regarding Commonwealth v. Eric Ruch: “Yesterday, my office filed a motion respectfully requesting the Court of Common Pleas to reconsider its sentence of 11½ to 23 months incarceration...
PHILADELPHIA (November 17, 2022) – District Attorney Larry Krasner issued the following statement following a sentencing hearing for former Philadelphia Police Officer Eric Ruch, who was convicted last month for the killing of an unarmed Black man: “On December 27, 2017, then-Philadelphia...
PHILADELPHIA (November 16, 2022) – District Attorney Larry Krasner issued the following statement after the Pennsylvania House Republican majority voted for an impeachment resolution despite there being no recommendation by a Select Committee authorized to investigate and find misconduct by the...
PHILADELPHIA (November 15, 2022) – District Attorney Larry Krasner issued the following statement on Texas Governor Greg Abbott‘s decision to send a bus carrying asylum seekers to Philadelphia: “Philadelphia remains the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. We are a...
PHILADELPHIA (November 9, 2022) — District Attorney Larry Krasner and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Community Engagement team today announced $250,000 in violence prevention grant awards to 12 community-based organizations that are focused on engaging our city’s youth...
PHILADELPHIA (November 7, 2022) – Law enforcement agencies will be working in close coordination to ensure that the November 8th general election in Philadelphia proceeds without interruption, and that city officials are able to immediately respond to dangerous misinformation and threats of...
PHILADELPHIA (November 3, 2022) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Thursday announced the arrests of individuals including a former corrections officer implicated in a criminal organization operating out of a county prison as alleged by an Investigating Grand Jury. According to a presentment...
PHILADELPHIA (October 21, 2022) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Friday sent the following statement in a letter to the PA House GOP-led Select Committee planning to hold a vote for his impeachment for purely political purposes ahead of the November 8 election. DA Krasner’s lawsuit...
PHILADELPHIA (October 18, 2022) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Tuesday formally accepted an invitation to appear before the PA House GOP-led Select Committee seeking to impeach him this Friday, October 21st, in a public and transparent hearing. On Saturday night, the Select Committee...
PHILADELPHIA (October 12, 2022) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Wednesday issued the following statement on the convictions following a waiver trial of two defendants from Virginia who were arrested nearly two years ago for firearms offenses outside of the Pennsylvania Convention Center as...