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Mac Bullock

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mbullock@dailyvoice.com

Mac Bullock is a Pennsylvania-based news reporter who has worked in local journalism for five years. He joined the Daily Voice team in October of 2022.

In his spare time, he enjoys reading, camping, and fishing.

Mac Bullock's Contributions

News

Lehigh Valley Man Dies After 34-Foot Fall From Grain Bin: Coroner A 72-year-old man is dead after falling from a grain bin at his Upper Macungie home on Sunday, Oct. 29, according to officials. Dennis D. Schaffer was fixing a "malfunctioning unit" on a grain bin at his Main Street property around 10 a.m. when he slipped, said the Lehigh County Coroner's Office. Schaffer fell 34 feet to the ground and was pronounced dead on-scene by 11 a.m., the coroner said. His cause of death was multiple blunt-force traumatic injuries due to a fall and his manner of death was accidental, authorities added. Upper Macungie police are investigatin…

by Mac Bullock

10/30/2023

Police & Fire

Ax-Wielding Driver Rammed Car On PA Highway: Police An Upper Merion driver was allegedly armed with a hatchet when police say he menaced another motorist on Friday night, Oct. 20. The victim called authorities around 9 p.m. and said she was being followed and rammed by a gold SUV on Route 23 near the Valley Forge Towers, police said. While officers were dispatched to locate the SUV, the victim told police the aggressor was now "armed with some sort of ax" and was "actively fighting with (her) male friend," according to UMPD. The men in the SUV fled the Valley Forge Towers but were spotted by Upper Merion detectives as they…

by Mac Bullock

10/30/2023

Police & Fire

Swastika Painted On Telephone Pole In Bucks County Police in Warrington are seeking the vandal who painted a swastika on a utility pole. The offending image was found on a Verizon pole along residential Folly Road early Friday, Oct. 27, authorities said. It was apparently made using white spray paint and measured about a foot in each direction, according to Warrington police Chief Daniel J. Friel. The responding officer was able to cover it up immediately using traffic marking paint he had on hand, officials said. Special to Daily Voice “This symbol of hate was removed immediately, and we are thankful to the resident who reported t…

by Mac Bullock

10/27/2023

News

2 Killed, 3 Hurt In Rollover Crash: Philadelphia Police A man and a woman are dead and three others hospitalized after a serious car crash in Philadelphia on Friday morning, Oct. 27, officials said. It happened around 11 a.m. on East Lehigh Avenue near the corner with Jasper Street, city police told Daily Voice. A grey Dodge Caravan was headed south on East Lehigh it struck a grey Acura, authorities said. Video uploaded to the Citizen App showed the Dodge rolled on its side and the Acura resting on the sidewalk. Police said the man and woman in the Dodge were each pronounced dead at the scene, though their names were not given…

by Mac Bullock

10/27/2023

News

Wandering Black Bear Captured In Montgomery County A black bear spotted wandering around Plymouth Township has been captured and will be relocated, officials say. The bear was first seen in the parking lot of the Plymouth Meeting Mall around 4 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, according to police. He evaded capture by running southeast toward the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Then, by Thursday afternoon, police said the bear had been spotted northeast of the mall in an area bound by Hickory, Walton, Township Line, and Narcissa roads. Finally, by Friday morning, Oct. 27, police said the Pennsylvania Game Commission officials had the b…

by Mac Bullock

10/27/2023

News

Couple Charged In 6-Year-Old Norristown Boy's Overdose Death: DA A man and a woman are charged in connection with the overdose death of a 6-year-old Norristown boy over the summer, say Montgomery County prosecutors. Kristen Sabatino, 31, and Matthew Santiago, 35, were the only adults in their Willow Street home when Dominic Lyons was found unresponsive on the morning of July 16, according to the District Attorney's Office. The 6-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene, and the Coroner's Office later determined he died from "drug intoxication from fentanyl and xylazine," authorities said. Sabatino, the boy's mother, initially tol…

by Mac Bullock

10/27/2023

Police & Fire

PA Man Robs Bank With His Mother In The Car: Police A Downingtown man robbed a Haverford bank on Thursday afternoon with his unwitting mother waiting in the getaway car, according to township police. Authorities say Glen Allen Mokshefski arrived at the Santander Bank, 116 W. Township Line Road, around 11 a.m. on Oct. 26. He fled the bank with an "undetermined sum of U.S. currency" and was seen getting into a gray Mitsubishi Mirage with an "elderly white female" in the passenger seat, Haverford police said. The Mitsubishi fled the bank when officers arrived but was stopped just a few blocks away near the corner of…

by Mac Bullock

10/27/2023

Police & Fire

Woman, 21, Charged In SEPTA Driver's Deadly Shooting The woman accused of killing a SEPTA bus driver on his route Thursday morning, Oct. 26 now faces murder charges, according to authorities. Twenty-one-year-old Zhontay Capers was arrested by plainclothes SEPTA police officers less than a mile from the scene of the shooting, officials said. No weapon was recovered from her person. Authorities said Route 23 driver Bernard Gribbin was shot in the torso and throat around 10:30 a.m. near Germantown and East Abottsford avenues. He later died from his wounds at Einstein Medical Center. Gribbin, a 48-year-old Abington resident, was a 12-year …

by Mac Bullock

10/27/2023

News

Motorcyclist Killed In Wreck During Chester County Police Chase: Troopers A motorcycle rider crashed and succumbed to his injuries while fleeing state police near Downingtown on Friday, Oct. 27, according to authorities. Police were chasing the motorcyclist east on US Route 30 through East Caln Township just before the wreck around 1:40 a.m., troopers said. The motorcyclist exited the highway "at a high rate of speed" onto Route 113, but lost control and hit a metal guide rail on the road's north side, said authorities. The 31-year-old motorcyclist's name was not reported by troopers. State police are continuing to investigate the crash.

by Mac Bullock

10/27/2023

Traffic

Sewer Line Break Reroutes Traffic In Morgantown: Officials (Updated) (Note: this story has been updated to include new information from Caernarvon police.) Morgantown area drivers were asked to avoid Quarry Road Thursday afternoon while crews worked to address a sewer line break, Caernarvon Township officials said. The street was shut down from Morgan Way to Morgantown Road as of from about 3:30 to just before 4:30 p.m. The sewer blockage was cleared and Quarry Road has since reopened, said Caernarvon Police Chief Paul Stolz.

by Mac Bullock

10/26/2023

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