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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

Police & Fire

Child Pornography Charges Filed Against Spring Township Employee A Spring Township employee is charged with possessing child pornography in Lancaster County, according to state court records. Kenneth McCardell III, 36, of Lancaster, is also charged with criminal use of a communications facility, judicial filings show. "The Township has been advised that its employee (...) has been charged with serious criminal offenses by the Manheim Police Department," said Township Manager John Groller in a statement. McCardell has been placed on administrative leave pending the investigation, Groller said. "Beyond the statement above, the Tow…

by Mac Bullock

07/06/2023

Police & Fire

Toddler's Killer Captured By US Marshals In Philadelphia: Cops A man accused of killing a 2-year-old Berks County boy was arrested by US Marshals in Philadelphia early on Thursday, July 6, according to authorities. Charles A. Acosta, 25, was taken into custody in Tacony, Marshals said. Acosta was caring for the 2-year-old victim, the boy's younger brother, and his own daughter while his partner and her daughter went out to pick up laundry on the evening of May 4, the Berks County District Attorney's Office said. Acosta called his girlfriend and told her to return to their Bern Township home after the child became "swollen and lethargic" an…

by Mac Bullock

07/06/2023

Police & Fire

Philly 'Thugs' Comment Prompts Outrage: Camden Official Faces Backlash A Camden County official is facing backlash after attributing the July 4 shooting of a 6-year-old girl to "thugs" from Philadelphia. In his remarks, Camden County Commissioner Louis Cappelli Jr. claimed that many guns "confiscated from the streets of Camden come from out of state, usually across the river from Philadelphia or Pennsylvania." "One of the suspects has a tie to Philadelphia," he continued. "We just want to send a message to the thugs and criminals and gun-bearing freaks over in Philadelphia who live in a society of lawlessness: we don't want you here," the Commissioner sai…

by Mac Bullock

07/06/2023

Obituaries

Longtime Perkasie Fire Captain Dies At 55 Christopher R. Pettit Sr., a Fire Police captain with the Perkasie Fire Company, died suddenly on Friday, June 30, his loved ones said in his obituary. He was 55. Pettit, of East Rockhill, had worked in the Fire Police for 15 years, relatives wrote. He had previously served his community as a 911 dispatcher for Bucks County Emergency Communications, and prior to that was a certified EMT for the Harleysville and Central Bucks Ambulance Corps, his obit says. After Pettit's passing on Friday, his Perkasie colleagues penned a tribute on social media. "Chris was a …

by Mac Bullock

07/05/2023

Police & Fire

Lehighton Area School Teacher Charged In Human Trafficking Sting: District A Carbon County teacher faces criminal charges in connection with a sex trafficking investigation, school administrators say. Michael Feifel, a social studies teacher at Lehighton Area High School according to his LinkedIn, "was arrested as a result of a (...) joint investigation of Berks, Northampton, and Lehigh counties," said Dr. Christina Fish, Lehighton superintendent. "The district and Mr. Feifel are cooperating with the investigation," Fish wrote in a message on the district website. "Mr. Feifel is currently not involved in any coaching or teaching over the summer …

by Mac Bullock

07/05/2023

News

Work To Begin On $2.3 Million Skate Park In Reading Crews are set to begin work this week at the site of a planned skate park in Reading, according to City Hall. City officials, the Reading Skatepark Association, and Holistic Skate Shop will host a ceremonial groundbreaking at 6th and Canal streets at 1 p.m. on Thursday, July 6. The project is expected to cost $2.34 million, officials said in a release. Grind Line and Land Tech are contracted to perform $744,890 in land development, while firm Spotts, Stevens and McCoy is under agreement to install the park features for $1,599,138.89. The park is funded in part through $290…

by Mac Bullock

07/05/2023

Police & Fire

Children Living In 'Deplorable' Conditions Without Edible Food In PA Neglect, Cruelty Case: DA A Monroe County pair are accused of endangering children and neglecting their pets after police say they were found living in "deplorable conditions" at their Hamilton Township home. Kevin Connolly, 39, and Amanda Aulito, 33, were arrested on Monday, July 3 and remanded in lieu of $10,000 bail, according to the Monroe County District Attorney's Office and state court records. The investigation began when county detectives paid a visit to their Colt Lane home on an unrelated matter to " make contact with Amanda Aulito," the DA's Office said. As they approached the home, po…

by Mac Bullock

07/05/2023

Police & Fire

Late-Night Easton Shooting Appears 'Targeted,' Investigators Say Gunfire rang out on an Easton street just after midnight on Wednesday, July 5 in what police believe was a "targeted" attack. It happened on the 100 block of St. John Street around 12:30 a.m., city police wrote in a release. Officers said they arrived to find an 18-year-old man laying in the roadway with multiple gunshot wounds. The victim was taken to an area hospital for treatment but police did not describe his condition. While investigators say they believe the shooting was "targeted," they are "getting a lack of cooperation from individuals involved in the incident."…

by Mac Bullock

07/05/2023

Police & Fire

Mass Shooting Suspect Who Killed 5 In Philly Racks Up Multiple Charges One suspect faces multiple charges in connection with the mass shooting that left five people dead in Southwest Philadelphia late on Monday, July 3. Kimbrady Carriker, 40, is accused of murder, assault, reckless endangerment, and related firearm offenses, city police told Daily Voice. The first shots rang out just before 8:30 p.m. Monday on the 1600 block of South 56th Street in Kingsessing, the department said. Officers arrived to find multiple victims injured across an "extensive scene," according to police. Six people were rushed from the scene to Penn Presbyterian Hospital where fo…

by Mac Bullock

07/05/2023

Police & Fire

Driver In Tractor Trailer Crash That Closed Rt. 22 For Hours Faces Numerous Citations A trucker was cited by state police after his tractor trailer overturned on a Lehigh County on-ramp on Monday, July 3, authorities say. It happened at the Route 22 west on-ramp from Cedar Crest Boulevard in South Whitehall, troopers wrote in a police report. The driver, in a "commercial vehicle carrying waste," failed to negotiate the ramp and flipped the truck, "spilling the waste across all lanes of travel," police said. Troopers said 52-year-old Richard Weatherspoon of Allentown was was driving the truck "at a high rate of speed" and "is at fault for the crash." He rec…

by Mac Bullock

07/05/2023

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