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READING, Pa. - Authorities say two teenagers are under arrest, charged in the deadly shooting of another teenager in Reading's City Park ... remain at the Berks County Jail.
He was committed to Berks County Jail on $1,000,000 bail. Madera, Jr. is charged with third degree murder, aggravated assault and related charges for a March 2022 shooting at Brookline Park that ...
Police claim Tyler Osborne, 30, of Boyertown, an inmate at the Berks County Jail, used a cellmate's electronic tablet to ...
A nonprofit partnership is studying the justice and jail systems in Berks County in an effort to reduce ... Now 41 and managing a barber shop in the city, Velazquez was 22 when he was jailed ...
A 19-year-old man who was one of three suspects charged in the killing of a 19-year-old man in southeast Reading last spring is in Berks County Prison following his extradition from New York City.
Two prisoners ran from a Berks County prison Wednesday evening after pulling a fire alarm. Thirty-three-years-old Justin Thomas Andrews, of Allentown, and 29-year-old Shawn Anthony Lawless ...
BERN TWP., Pa. -- A ceremony honored prison guards and other staff in Bern Township. The 'Berks County Jail System Memorial Service' takes place each year during National Correctional Officers and ...
The Berks County Prison Board has adjusted one of its policies in an attempt to balance compliance with detention requests from federal immigration officials and the rights of those being detained.
A Berks County detention center that formerly housed ... In response, 50 Pennsylvania elected officials — including several Philadelphia City Councilmembers and state lawmakers from Southeastern ...
WEST CHESTER – A Berks County man, citing his military ... Fratangeli to a minimum period of incarceration in Chester County Prison of less than one year, far below the suggested state ...