PHILADELPHIA (April 15, 2024) — District Attorney Larry Krasner on Monday announced the launch of a new prosecution unit at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office that will focus on adults and juveniles who repeatedly and illegally possess firearms in the city of Philadelphia. The...
PHILADELPHIA (April 1, 2024) — District Attorney Larry Krasner awarded microgrants totaling over $357,000 to 13 addiction recovery groups as part of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Violence Prevention Grant Program on Monday. DA Krasner and members of his executive team made...
PHILADELPHIA (March 28, 2024) – A teenager who was arrested and charged for the fatal shooting of Tyshaun Welles, 16, in the Market-Frankford station in January has been ordered released after further investigation showed that he did not participate in the crime. Zaire Wilson, 16, was arrested...
PHILADELPHIA (March 25, 2024) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Monday announced that he had filed a lawsuit against nearly 20 pharmaceutical companies and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) for colluding to inflate the consumer cost of insulin, which has become cheaper than ever to produce....
Courts Agree Rice was Wrongfully Convicted for 2011 Shootings of Gang Associate, Family PHILADELPHIA (March 18, 2024) – The District Attorney’s Office on Monday moved to drop all charges against Charles J. Rice, whose conviction and sentence for a 2011 mass shooting in South Philadelphia...
PHILADELPHIA (March 5, 2024) — District Attorney Larry Krasner joined survivors and co-survivors of homicide and violent crime on Tuesday to announce that the application process for the District Attorney’s Office Crime Victims Advisory Council is now open, following a hiatus caused by...
PHILADELPHIA (February 28, 2024) – After nearly 30 years of imprisonment for a conviction and sentence secured by police and prosecutors who suppressed information to which he was legally entitled, the District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday dropped all charges against Daniel Gwynn for the...
PHILADELPHIA (February 20, 2024) – Following a one-day trial, Latif Williams on Tuesday was convicted of the 2021 murder of Temple University student Samuel Collington near campus. The Hon. J. Scott O’Keefe on Tuesday found Williams (DOB: 11/12/2004) guilty of Third Degree Murder,...
PHILADELPHIA (February 14, 2024) — District Attorney Larry Krasner and the Philadelphia Foundation gathered at the West Kensington Ministry on Wednesday to announce the re-opening of the application process for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Violence Prevention Grant...
PHILADELPHIA (February 8, 2024) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Thursday announced the conviction of Rodney Watkins (DOB: 10/11/1968) for assaulting six children he was able to access by founding a traveling youth skateboarding team called Powerfulnailya. Watkins was arrested and charged...