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Jillian Pikora

Senior Assistant Managing Editor

jpikora@dailyvoice.com

Jillian is an editor and reporter based out of Pennsylvania's capital city of Harrisburg. She has a degree in Political Science and is a former political campaign manager. For over a decade, she has worked as a staff reporter and freelance writer at Sisters Magazine, The Tempest, Huffington Post, CairoScene, and several other outlets. Before joining Daily Voice, Jillian worked as a digital news editor at Hearst's local NBC affiliate, WGAL News 8. She currently assists in managing Virginia, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts; as well as reporting stories in Pennsylvania for Daily Voice.

Jillian Pikora's Contributions

Police & Fire

19-Year-Old Girl Found With 14 Baggies Of Fentanyl In Central PA: Police A 19-year-old girl was caught with 14 baggies of fentanyl during a traffic stop, police say. Mikayla C. Eshleman, of Ephrata, was stopped in the 100 block of Akron Road in Ephrata Township at 11:32 a..m. on June 20, area police say. The officers soon discovered that she had an outstanding Lancaster County bench warrant for failing to appear for a retail theft charge, according to the police release and court documents. "Eshleman was also found to possess 14 baggies of suspected fentanyl, weighing 4.53 grams," as stated in the release. Eshleman has been charged with a misdemeanor for poss…

by Jillian Pikora

07/14/2022

News

Infant On Meth Died In 'Deplorable Conditions' Mom's BF Arrested In SC, PA State Police Say Seven months after a 7-week-old baby girl’s death, her mom's boyfriend Robert Eugene McCachren has been arrested in South Carolina, Pennsylvania state police have told Daily Voice on Wednesday, July 13. The infant went into cardiac arrest in the 100 block of Bentz Mill Road in Washington Township in York on Thursday, Jan. 27, according to a release by PSP. State police recieved a call at York Station, about a two-month-old baby girl who was not breathing, but when officers arrived to the pop-up trailer she was dead, according to an updated release by police. The mom, Ashley Nicol…

by Jillian Pikora

07/13/2022

Police & Fire

Hazmat Team Called To Crash That Closed I-81 In Central PA: PennDOT A hazmat team has been called to the scene of a roll-over crash on Interstate 81 in central Pennsylvania, authorities say. The crash involving a tractor-trailer going north on I-81 happened between Exit 80: PA 743 -GRANTVILLE/HERSHEY and Exit 85B: FORT INDIANTOWN GAP around 7:20 p.m. on Wednesday, July 13, according to the Pennsylvania department of transportation. A hazmat team was called and Pennsylvania state police shut down the road, dispatchers say. It is unclear what the trailer contained, how long the road will be closed and if anyone was injured, although dispatchers say the tract…

by Jillian Pikora

07/13/2022

News

Man With Rifle Nabbed In NJ Crash While Fleeing In Stole Car From PA Burglary: Police A central Pennsylvania man has been arrested in New Jersey after he was car crash in a stolen vehicle following a burglary of his neighbor's home, police say. Allen Vasquez of the 7800 block of Clearfield Street in Swatara Township, Pennsylvania, broke into his neighbor's home in the 7600 block of the same street around 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 13, police allege. Vasquez was spotted on a neighbor's security camera entering the home with a rifle as pictured. "Vasquez took personal property and keys to the victim's vehicle that was parked outside," police say. He was in a car in New Jer…

by Jillian Pikora

07/13/2022

News

PA Dad Of 15 Dies Two Days After Struck By Lightning A Pennsylvania father of 15 children, including his foster and adoptive children, has died two days after he was struck by lightning, according to his family. Daryl Ray Lewis, 50, of Dravosburg formerly of Clairton, was struck while repairing his rig that had broken down during a Walshak Trucking of Pittsburgh job in Medina, Ohio on July 6, according to his obituary and a GoFundMe campaign started for the family. "Bystanders and first responders quickly came to his aid," the update states and, "He was rushed to a local hospital and eventually transferred to a trauma center in Dayton, …

by Jillian Pikora

07/13/2022

News

PA News Anchor Lied About Having Stalker: State Police A Pennsylvania television news anchor has been arrested for falsely claiming she had a stalker, Pennsylvania state police say. Haley Potter, 24, originally from Pittsburgh, began making false statements to the police saying she had an ongoing harassment issue from an unknown stalker in April, according to a release by the police. The Slippery Rock University class of 2020 graduate allegedly led police down a slippery slope when showed them text messages, phone calls, and voicemails detailing her whereabouts that she claim to have received from an unknown person. Them she showed police a …

by Jillian Pikora

07/13/2022

Obituaries

Mom Dies On The Way To The Hospital Following Central PA Car Crash: State Police A 37-year-old mother who died en route to the hospital following a central Pennsylvania crash was identified by state police in a release on Tuesday, July 12. Jennifer L. Ludwig of Myerstown was seriously hurt in a crash after the driver of the car she was in, Roger L. Barlow, 33, of East Earl, blew through a stop sign at the Greble Road and South Pine Grove Street intersection in Bethel Township for an unknown reason at 1:08 p.m. on Thursday, June 30, according to the Pennsylvania state police release. Barlow had been heading east on Greble Road in a 2016 C-Max Ford when he crashed into …

by Jillian Pikora

07/13/2022

Obituaries

Ghost Guns Found At Home Of Man On Bail When He Allegedly Killed PA Dad Of 2 A warranted search of the home of a man who was out on bail when he allegedly shot and killed a local dad, has revealed a massive weapons stash including multiple ghost guns, authorities say. Jacquez Davon Brown, 26, of York, was arrested on homicide charges in connection with the July 6 shooting death of Shaheim "Mugga" Carr, 27, of York at a home in the 600 block Wheatfield Street on Sunday, July 11, York City police say. Investigators later searched the home and seized six firearms— including two ghost guns, or guns assembled from fabricated parts, or parts of multiple guns none of…

by Jillian Pikora

07/13/2022

Traffic

Person Hospitalized After Crash Closed Part Of RT 283 In Central PA Part of Pennsylvania Route 283 in Central Pennsylvania closed due a crash on Wednesday, July 13, according to the Pennsylvania department of transportation. The crash happened between the exits to Mount Joy/Manheim and Rheems/Elizabethtown, around 7:15 a.m., Lancaster County Wide Communications dispatchers say. The crash halted all traffic going west by the Rheems over pass at Cloverleaf Road, according to PennDOT. One person was taken to the hospital following the two vehicle crash, LCWC dispatchers say. Rubbernecking caused a slow down in the eastern traffic lanes, PennDOT says. There …

by Jillian Pikora

07/13/2022

News

Death Sentence Sought For Man Charged With Arson, Double Homicide In PA A request for a possible death penalty sentence has been filed against one of two men who were arrested in connection with the arson and double homicide of two victims in central Pennsylvania by the Cumberland County district attorney's office. Larry Burns, was arraigned in connection with two shooting deaths and an arson in a home in the 100 block of Neil Road in South Hampton Township near Shippensburg on Feb. 23 around 6 a.m. before the Honorable Michelle H. Sibert on Monday, July 11, authorities say. Frankie Dean Thomas, 37, of Fayetteville, and Eddie Lee Shaw, 54, …

by Jillian Pikora

07/12/2022

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