PHILADELPHIA (February 28, 2023) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Tuesday issued the following statement congratulating Rep. Joanna McClinton (D-Phila.) on becoming Pennsylvania’s first woman House Speaker: “Becoming the first Black woman to serve as Speaker of the Pennsylvania House...
PHILADELPHIA (February 27, 2023) — District Attorney Larry Krasner and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Gun Violence Strategies Initiative and Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit announced the conviction of Ulysses Perry (DOB 11/3/1998) for shooting and seriously wounding...
PHILADELPHIA (February 19, 2023) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Sunday announced the DA’s Office Homicide/Non-Fatal Shootings Unit will be prosecuting Miles Pfeffer, 18, of Buckingham Township, Pennsylvania, for the murder of an on-duty Temple University Police officer on...
PHILADELPHIA (February 16, 2023) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Thursday issued the following statement on Governor Josh Shapiro’s announcement that he has changed his mind about supporting application of the death penalty in Pennsylvania: “Given Governor Shapiro’s...
PHILADELPHIA (February 14, 2023) — District Attorney Larry Krasner and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Gun Violence Task Force (GVTF) have charged three Philadelphia men who are accused of operating a firearm and narcotics trafficking ring, following a 15-month-long...
PHILADELPHIA (February 10, 2023) – The chief prosecutors of Kansas City, Missouri; Kansas City, Kansas; and Philadelphia have challenged one another to a friendly wager over the outcome of Super Bowl LVII, in which the Kansas City NFL team will face the Philadelphia Eagles. Prosecutor Jean...
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...