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...
PHILADELPHIA (February 8, 2024) – Prosecutors with the District Attorney’s Gun Violence Task Force on Thursday announced the conviction of a motorcyclist who violently threatened a woman with young children inside her car during an unauthorized motor “meet-up.” The shocking incident in...
PHILADELPHIA (February 5, 2024) – The District Attorney’s Office Conviction Integrity Unit on Monday secured the exoneration of Harold Staten for a 1984 North Philadelphia house fire in which one man was killed and three others were injured. As of today, the administration of District Attorney...
PHILADELPHIA (January 22, 2024) — District Attorney Larry Krasner and members of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Homicide and Non-Fatal Shootings Unit announced on Monday that Myzeh Ross (DOB 4/29/2002) was found guilty of three counts of Third Degree Murder and related...
PHILADELPHIA (January 12, 2024) — District Attorney Larry Krasner and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Gun Violence Task Force (GVTF) on Friday announced criminal charges against two male suspects for their roles in a mass shooting committed in the city’s Kensington...
PHILADELPHIA (January 11, 2024) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Thursday issued the following statement on the appointment of Philadelphia Police Department Deputy Commissioner Pedro Rosario:“The attorneys and other professionals of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s...
PHILADELPHIA (January 11, 2024) – The Philadelphia District Attorney on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Attorney General to block implementation of Act 40, an unprecedented assault on a locally elected official’s authority and on the rights of voters in the most populous...
PHILADELPHIA (January 8, 2024) — District Attorney Larry Krasner and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Gun Violence Task Force (GVTF) on Monday announced that Philadelphia’s Thirty-Second Investigating Grand Jury has recommended charges against James Adams (DOB...
PHILADELPHIA (December 18, 2023) — Philadelphians ranging from faith and community leaders to returning citizens and crime survivors gathered at the Church of Christian Compassion in West Philadelphia on Monday to denounce the passage of Act 40, condemning the legislation as an anti-democracy...
PHILADELPHIA (December 14, 2023) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Thursday issued a stark warning to pro-democracy Pennsylvanians following the signing into law of PA Senate Bill 140, a Republican-backed effort to disenfranchise Philadelphia voters that was rushed to final passage on...