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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Pennsylvania.. Pennsylvania says it has more police departments than any other state in the country. [1] According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 1,117 law enforcement agencies employing 27,413 sworn police officers, about 218 for each 100,000 residents.
Nov. 7—WILKES-BARRE — A former constable who had a felony rape charge withdrawn in exchange to pleading guilty to misdemeanor child sex offenses was recently sentenced in Luzerne County Court.
The office of the Pennsylvania State Constable is a municipally elected, sworn Law Enforcement Officer [4] throughout the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [5]Pennsylvania State Constables are elected in each borough, township, and city ward in the state—except in Philadelphia (although constables may still exercise authority in the City of Philadelphia) —and serve six-year terms.
Trooper Robert E. Covington Jr., of Olyphant, PA, for his alleged involvement in illegal activity occurring at Sinners Swing Gentlemen's Club in Mayfield Borough, Lackawanna County. Covington, 48, is a 13-year veteran of PSP and was assigned to the Bureau of Gaming Enforcement, Pocono Downs Wilkes-Barre Office.
Apr. 10—One of the five people charged with torturing and killing a woman inside a Carlisle Street, Wilkes-Barre, house under the premise the victim sexually abused an 8-year-old girl is a ...
At the time of Johnson's arrest, he was wanted by the Pennsylvania Department of Parole for absconding parole linked to a shooting during a home invasion on South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, on ...
The Susquehanna River and Wilkes-Barre Downtown Wilkes-Barre at night The Stegmaier Federal Building Roth Residence Hall McClintock Hall, built in 1841 According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 7.2 square miles (19 km 2 ), of which 6.8 square miles (18 km 2 ) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2 ), or 4.60%, is water.
The Bufalino crime family, [5] also known as the Pittston crime family, [6] the Pittston–Scranton crime family, [7] the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre crime family, [6] the Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family, [8] the Northeastern Pennsylvania Mafia, [9] [10] or the Scranton Mafia, [11] was an Italian-American Mafia crime family active in Northeastern Pennsylvania, primarily in the cities of ...