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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.

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Video Captures 'Alleged Illegal Activity' That Left Reading Parking Authority Employee Jobless A Reading Parking Authority employee has been fired after a social media video appearing to show "illegal activity taking place" in a company vehicle made its way across the internet, management said. The video, uploaded by a Facebook user late on Sunday, May 14, appears to show two people sitting in a parked RPA car. The 10-second clip had garnered over 50,000 views by the evening hours on Monday, May 15. In a statement issued Monday evening, RPA said it was "aware of public social media posts alleging illegal activity taking place in one of its vehicles." After conducting an …

by Mac Bullock

05/15/2023

Police & Fire

Murder Suspect Aided In Philly Jailbreak, Police Believe While one of the escaped inmates from Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center remains on the run, police have arrested a second suspected accomplice in connection with the breakout. Jose Flores-Huerta, 35, was charged with criminal conspiracy and felony escape after city police issued a warrant for his arrest on Friday, May 12, the department said. Flores-Huerta was being held in the same city jail that he's accused of helping Nasir Grant and Ameen Hurst escape from on May 7, according to police. State court records show Flores-Huerta is charged with murder in an unrelated case fro…

by Mac Bullock

05/15/2023

Police & Fire

Philadelphia Police Identify 14-Year-Old Shot Dead On SEPTA Platform Philadelphia police have released the name of the teenager shot and killed on a SEPTA platform over the weekend. Authorities were called to the station at the corner of South 52nd Street and Market Street around 2:10 p.m. on Saturday, May 13 for a report of a person with a gun, the department told Daily Voice. They arrived to find 14-year-old Wort Whipple of Frankford with gunshot wounds to the chest and arm, police wrote. He was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he died just before 3 p.m., they added. No weapon was recovered from the scene and no arrest has…

by Mac Bullock

05/15/2023

Police & Fire

Slate Belt Man Exposed Self To Neighbors, Police Say A Slate Belt man was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly exposed himself to a neighbor and their grandchild, say authorities. Slate Belt Regional Police were called to Short Road in Plainfield Township around 7:15 p.m. on Saturday, May 13 for a reported disturbance, the department wrote in a release. There, the neighbor said he was playing with his granddaughter in the yard when they allegedly saw Todd W. Winterton "standing in the (open) doorway to his residence naked, exposing his genitals," police wrote. Video evidence from the scene corroborated the neighbor'…

by Mac Bullock

05/15/2023

Police & Fire

73 Chihuahuas Rescued From Philadelphia Home Rescuers are seeking new homes for dozens of dogs who were living in "unsanitary conditions" in a Philadelphia rowhome, animal welfare advocates say. Police visited a home on the 1900 block of North Orianna Street in Kensington late on Thursday, May 11 for an unrelated matter when they discovered "approximately 40" dogs living at the property, said the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA) in a release. Police contacted PSPCA, who said they counted nearly double that number in their search of the home. In total, rescuers found 73 chihuahuas and one Rottwei…

by Mac Bullock

05/15/2023

Police & Fire

Poconos Man, 20, Dies After Motorcycle Crash A Monroe County man has died a week after sustaining injuries in a motorcycle accident, authorities say. William M. Hill, 20, of Middle Smithfield Township, was pronounced dead on Sunday, May 14, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said in a release. Hill was riding a motorcycle on Milford Road near Airport Road in Smithfield Township around 8:40 p.m. on Saturday, May 6 when he was involved in a crash with another vehicle, the coroner said. He was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital Muhlenburg, where he eventually died from multiple blunt force injuries, Buglio wrote. The …

by Mac Bullock

05/15/2023

Police & Fire

Wanted Identity Thief Had Others' Passports, Social Security Cards At His Home: Bucks Police A suspected identity thief in Bucks County had a "large number" of other peoples' vital documents in his Doylestown home, say authorities. Central Bucks Regional Police Department responded to a report of "possible drug activity" at 625 N. Main Street in the Borough on Thursday, May 11, they said in a release. During their search, officers said they found multiple Social Security cards, debit and credit cards, US passports, and birth certificates in other peoples' names. They also said they found drug paraphernalia at the home. Now, 38-year-old Christopher Michael Sc…

by Mac Bullock

05/12/2023

Police & Fire

Victims ID'd In Deadly Montco House Fire, But Cause Still Unclear Officials in Montgomery County are still working to identify the cause of the early morning house fire that killed one man and one woman in Hatfield on Friday, May 12. The Hatfield Volunteer Fire Company was called to the home, 2873 Washington Lane, at about 4:20 a.m., they wrote in a release Friday afternoon. Dispatchers advised that the blaze on the first floor had trapped two people upstairs, the Company said. Firefighters arrived within minutes to find "heavy fire conditions" on the house's front side, with only three of the five residents having escaped, the release says. T…

by Mac Bullock

05/12/2023

Police & Fire

Ex-PA Police Chief Pretended To Be Back On Force While Pulling Over Driver: Authorities An ex-police chief in Northampton County who resigned just before facing misconduct charges last fall tried to pull over a driver and pretend he was still an officer, according to authorities. Eric K. Schwab, who resigned his leadership post in the Stockertown Borough Police Department in September citing a thumb injury, is charged with impersonating a public servant, said Palmer Township police in a release. On Friday, May 5, police say Schwab used his personal Ford Explorer outfitted with emergency lights and a siren to pull over a motorist on Van Buren Road around 5:10 p.m.&nb…

by Mac Bullock

05/12/2023

Police & Fire

NJ Man Killed Brother-In-Law During Fight At PA Family Member's Apartment: Authorities A New Jersey man surrendered to Bensalem police on Friday after he was indicted for causing his brother-in-law's death during a 2022 fistfight, authorities say. Antwan McKoy, 37, of Maple Shade, NJ, is charged with involuntary manslaughter, simple assault, reckless endangerment, and harassment, said Bensalem police in a release. According to investigators, McKoy and his wife were visiting her mother at the Bucks Meadow Apartments on June 19 of last year. Michael Whispell, McKoy's brother-in-law, was staying at the apartment at the time. At some point during the visit,…

by Mac Bullock

05/12/2023

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