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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

Jennifer Brown: DA Urges Patience In Case Of Missing Limerick Mom As Jennifer Brown's disappearance enters its eighth day, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele is asking for the public's patience as detectives investigate. The 43-year-old Limerick mom was supposed to pick her son up at the school bus stop on Wednesday, Jan. 4, but was reported missing when she never showed, Daily Voice has reported. The community has taken action since Brown's sudden disappearance, with loved ones and neighbors canvassing flyers, holding a candlelight vigil, and setting up a Facebook group to bring awareness to her case. While some have grown frustrate…

by Mac Bullock

01/11/2023

Police & Fire

Know Them? Trio Stole 83-Year-Old's Wallet, Bucks Police Say An 83-year-old woman is out $5,000 — and authorities are searching for the trio they say took it. Police in Fairless Hills were called to BJ's Wholesale Club on Commerce Boulevard at 2 p.m. on Dec. 31, where the senior citizen told them a woman stole her wallet while a man was distracting her. Just minutes later, the victim's credit cards were used at the Best Buy right next door, investigators said. A second female suspect was seen on security camera using the 83-year-old's money to buy $5,000 in electronics and gift cards, according to police. The male suspect is d…

by Mac Bullock

01/11/2023

Police & Fire

Daylight Shooter Charged In Reading: Police The gunman who opened fire on a Reading street in broad daylight has been arrested, according to authorities. Police say Angel Ramon Burgos-Ortiz, 44, was taken into custody Tuesday, Jan. 10 on charges of aggravated assault and related counts, city police said in a release. Investigators have accused Burgos-Ortiz of a non-fatal shooting on the 900 block of Penn Street at about 9:30 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 2. Officials are still investigating the incident. Anyone with information should call Reading Police at 610-655-6116, or call the Berks County Crime Watch anonymous tip…

by Mac Bullock

01/11/2023

News

Controversial Lower Merion Traffic Stop Captured In Viral Video The Lower Merion Police Department is investigating after a video emerged showing officers using a TASER weapon on a woman and pulling her from her car during a traffic stop. The clip, apparently filmed from a bystander's cell phone and then widely circulated on social media, depicts a traffic stop in a Wawa parking lot on Conshohocken State and Rockhill roads on Sunday, Jan. 8. ⁦@lowermerionpol1⁩ tase and pull guns on an unarmed Black, Norristown woman. Witnesses state the woman was pulled over for “tailgating.” The woman screams that it is Officer Murphy of the Lower Merion Police w…

by Mac Bullock

01/11/2023

Police & Fire

Firemen Battle Two-Alarm Blaze In Allentown Firefighters in Allentown responded to a two-alarm blaze on Walnut Street early Wednesday, Jan. 11, the department announced. The fire began around 4:30 a.m. on the 1500 block, officials said on social media. AFD is operating in the 1500 block of Walnut at a dwelling fire. pic.twitter.com/Mc4OPpLy02 — Allentown Fire Department (@AllentownFD) January 11, 2023 The blaze appears to have affected both units in a duplex apartment, and the Red Cross was called to assist displaced residents, WFMZ reports. Fire department officials were not immediately available to comment on the cause of th…

by Mac Bullock

01/11/2023

Police & Fire

Beloved Montco Dad, Friend Dies At 50 After Illness Robert Ian Konick, a beloved father to five and friend to many, died after a period of illness on Monday, Jan. 2, according to his obituary. He was 50. Rob was born and raised in Abington where he met many of his lifelong friends, and went on to study architecture at Temple University until 1992, loved ones wrote. He eventually opened his own vehicle and auto accessory business, the British Racing Group, which operated until 2019. In 2004, Rob's life changed permanently when he was rear-ended by a commercial vehicle at over 50 mph, his obit says. With the support of his l…

by Mac Bullock

01/10/2023

Obituaries

Levittown Dad Of 8 Dies Suddenly At 54 Gary George Merrigan II, a beloved Levittown husband and father of eight, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, Jan. 6, according to his obituary. He was 54. Born in Philadelphia to Gary Merrigan I and the late Ingrid Pelc, Gary left school early to pursue a career in the workforce, loved ones wrote. He was employed at Saint Mary's Cemetery and at commercial printer Smith-Edwards-Dunlap before taking a role at manufacturing firm Broderick Industries, where he worked for the rest of his life, his obit says. Family members wrote that Gary was married to his wife Teresa (nee McFadden…

by Mac Bullock

01/10/2023

Police & Fire

Former WC Christian School Teacher Sentenced For Child Abuse: DA A former fifth-grade teacher at the West Chester Christian School who abused a student will spend decades in prison, a judge has ruled. Randy Boston, 65, of Shickshinny, was sentenced to 20 to 40 years for involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and related counts for which he had been convicted by a jury in August, said Chester County District Attorney Deb Ryan in a statement Tuesday, Jan. 10. Detectives began investigating Boston after a 21-year-old man stepped forward in June 2021 to report having been abused by the teacher when he was a first grader at WCCS in 2007-2008,…

by Mac Bullock

01/10/2023

Police & Fire

Prosecutor Probes Crash That Killed Essex County Woman Police are investigating the cause of the car crash that killed a 70-year-old woman in Roseland on Monday afternoon, authorities say. First responders were called to the 100 block of Eisenhower Parkway at around noon on Jan. 9 for a reported two-car accident, acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II said in a release. One of the drivers, 70-year-old Christine Perrella of Caldwell, was rushed to Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center where she later died from injuries sustained during the crash, police said. No charges have been filed, but Stephens said county det…

by Mac Bullock

01/10/2023

Police & Fire

Northeast Philly Shooting Kills 3, Injuries 1: Police Three men are dead and a fourth is in critical condition after a late-night shooting in northeast Philadelphia, authorities told Daily Voice. City police were called to the 7300 block of Rowland Avenue in Mayfair just before 10 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 9, for reports of a person with a gun, the department said. Officers arrived to find two victims — an 18-year-old man and a 19-year-old man — dead at the scene with multiple gunshot wounds to the body, they said. Another man, 24, was rushed to Nazareth Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds where he died just before 10:40 p.m., police added. T…

by Mac Bullock

01/10/2023

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