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A 3-month old infant is being treated at Lehigh Valley Hospital after officials say he suffered brutal abuse from the hands of his father.
Police said 26-year-old Juan Ramel Vazquez of Tobyhanna was caring for his son when he became symptomatic for bilateral retinal hemorrhages.
Pocono Mountain Regional Detectives responded to Lehigh Valley Hospital and conducted interviews with medical personnel and the child's parents.
Medical personnel determined that the child had suffered abusive head trauma and also presented with old and new subdural hemorrhages in the brain.
Pocono Mountain Regional Police filed charges against Vazquez and obtained an arrest warrant.
They located Vazquez at his home and arrested him without incident on March 9.
He is facing a long list of charges including aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of a child and recklessly endangering another person, among several others.
He will be arraigned before Judge Philip Riley and bail has been set at $250.000.00.
Preliminary hearing is slated for March 18 at 10: a.m. before District Justice Anthony Fluegel.
Saturday night, the wrestling season ended and Boyertown's Jordan Wood had a gold medal hanging from around his neck. Something that didn't seem very likely even two months before as Wood battled to just get on the mat. Sam Marcinek has more on the journey that resulted in Wood
The state playoff runs of the Central Catholic boys and Pottsville boys both ended Tuesday night against District 3 teams.
Zay Jennings poured in 16 points for the Vikings, but a 21-4 2nd half run by Bishop McDevitt spelled doom for the Vikings in a 73-52 loss.
Pottsville's perfect season also ended, as the Crimson Tide lost to Susquehanna Township 44-37 in the second round.
A Bucks County man who gives back to neighbors says thieves have taken from him.
"I walked around the corner here this morning and wanted to throw up a little bit when I saw that my snow plow pump was gone," said Steven Wright, Jr. of Hilltown Township.
Gone with the pump was the way he offers a warm gesture to neighbors during the cold months.
"When I get home from a ten hour shift, 12 hour shift of snowplowing in a backhoe, I get in my pickup truck and I go around and I take care of all my neighbors," he explained.
Wright says while people sometimes give him money, he doesn't expect anything.
"Ever since I was young I've always done stuff like this for people. This is nothing new for me to help my community out or my neighborhood," he said.
Neighbors appreciate his kindness.
"When it starts snowing I usually watch the road watching for Steven," said Glenn Garand.
"Very appreciative, the snow this year is terrible and I'm glad he was here," said John Cox.
Wright said the piece of equipment was stolen from his truck outside his home sometime overnight before he discovered it Tuesday morning.
"This would be the heart of the snowplow," he explained about the pump. "It runs the whole hydraulic system, it is a hydraulic pump."
"They cut the plug off my wiring harness that goes into my truck," he said. "They managed to get the two hardened steel bolts out of my pump which is kind of amazing. I put them on with an impact gun and they took them off with a wrench."
"It's terrible, it's terrible. The neighborhood has always been great, always been quiet," said Garand.
Cox said, "I was shocked. I called some of the other neighbors and told them what happened so they can be aware of what's happening in the area."
The pump doesn't have a serial number and police said it will be difficult to track down.
"It's going to cost me $1,500 dollars to replace it with a good pump, with a new, good pump," he said. "No, I don't have that money but I have the summer to deal with it."
In the meantime, he and his neighbors have a message for whoever is responsible.
"Get a job, man," said Wright.
"Bring it back and stop doing it," said Garand. "To steal from hardworking people is just wrong."
The CB West girls won to stay alive in the state tournament Tuesday, and the Abington girls did as well to join the Bucks in the quarterfinal round.
CB West routed Upper Dublin 57-28 to advance behind a balanced offensive attack. They now move to the quarterfinals to face Archbishop Carroll who beat North Penn in round two 39-31.
Abington's girls also advanced, beating Mechanicsburg 35-31.
Months ago, Allentown's Dell Motors co-owner Amman Jesani collaborated with a local artist to bring life to the walls outside of his business.
"We like to support local art and local artists," Jesani said. "That was the idea originally."
But soon after the work was done, a detective came knocking on Jesani's his door.
"I think having received a complaint from someone," Jesani said. "Of course, we were totally shocked."
Jesani immediately called The Alternative Gallery in Allentown, a non-profit group that promotes local artists, and the group Jesani contracted with to create the mural.
Gallery Director, Brandon Wunder, says he immediately contacted police.
"After I spoke with the detective it was something that was very subtle and mostly misconstrued that they could see it as gang symbolism," Wunder said.
The artist behind the piece is Max Meano, who says he was never affiliated with a gang.
"Never was, never will be," Meano said.
Meano also says his work does not intentionally include gang symbols.
Dennis Pearson, President of the East Allentown Rittersville Neighborhood Association, says the owner of the business next door to Jesani, at Boulevard Laundromat, made his concerns known at a recent meeting.
"Many people that came to his place did not like it," Pearson said. "Especially at night time because the subject of the art that was on the building next door was kind of chilling."
We spoke with customers at Boulevard Laundromat and met a mixed reaction.
"The kids would like that," Cassandra Contrino of Catasauqua said. "They would like the signs and it shows that this is a place to get your car fixed."
"I was scared of it for a long time," Donna Neas of Catasauqua said. "But now that I keep seeing it, it is wearing off."
Wunder says police suggested minor tweaks to the hands in the picture so that no one could possibly infer any gang signals. Wunder said those tweaks will be done as soon as the weather conditions improve.
We did reach out to the owner of Boulevard Laundromat, but he was unavailable for comment.
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The United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley partnered with employees at two local businesses to raise $13,000 to help students and staff from the fire damaged Cleveland Elementary School.
PPL Corp. employees donated $5,000 through a digital giving campaign created by the United Way which provided a 100 percent match. PPL employees have a long established relationship with the school, volunteering and serving as tutors and mentors there for the past 25 years, according to the release from the United Way.
The money will go toward the Cleveland Fire Fund which was established to help students and staff at the Allentown school that was damaged in February when a fire broke out on its second floor.
Separately, employees at the True Value Distribution Center in Allentown held two fundraisers, raising $3,000. The employees, a majority of whom are members of the United Steelworkers Local 554, decided to donate the money to the fund.
Students and staff were displaced by the fire and repairs are anticipated to take up to 8 weeks to complete.
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Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick announced a new legislative initiative that strengthens background checks for school employees and ends the process of "passing the trash," while speaking Tuesday at the Bucks County Conference on Crimes Against Children
"Even with the good work done by the law enforcement agents and children advocates here, more than 450 teachers and school employees were arrested last year alone on charges of sexual misconduct with children. That's more than one per day," Fitzpatrick said. "What's more appalling is that these are just the cases we were able to catch. According to the Government Accountability Office, the average pedophile teacher preys on and assaults 73 children over a lifetime."
Fitzpatrick will introduce the Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators Act next week. The bill will expand background check requirements for teachers, staff, contractors and coaches as well as prohibit districts from hiring staff who have committed certain crimes, including any violent or sexual crime against a child.
"Every single child deserves the right to a quality education free from the fear and devastation of a sexual or violent crime committed by those they trust to teach them," Fitzpatrick said. "Our children are our nation's greatest resource. This measure continues my commitment to protecting our students in a place they should be most safe."
