Police Can Buy Their Guns, Supervisors Say

Upper Macungie Police officers will be given the opportunity to purchase their service weapons for $415.

Members of the Upper Macungie Police force will be given first chance to purchase their service weapons for $415, according to the Upper Macungie Board of Supervisors. The board, earlier in Thursday night's agenda meeting, passed a motion giving  department heads permission to sell excess township equipment. The 23 service weapons are Glocks, which are 40-caliber guns that were puchased from the now-defunct Berks-Lehigh Regional Police Department. Supervisors said the police department members will get the first chance to purchase the weapons. If they decline, the weapons will be sold at auction. All Upper Macungie police officers who elect to purchase the guns will be subject to a full background check. "We'll follow all laws," said …

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Top Upper Macungie Police Stories of 2012

Here are the top Upper Macungie police stories in 2012 that generated the most interest from Patch readers.

  Here are the top police stories in Upper Macungie or involving Upper Macungie residents, in 2012, based on reader interest: Upper Macungie Man Killed in Crash Fogelsville Man Killed in Bicycle Accident Boy Hit by SUV and Killed while Trick-or-Treating Man Killed in Route 222 Crash Driver ID'd in Fatal Truck Crash On I-78 Car Crashes Into Trexlertown Wal-Mart DA: Man Intended to Rape Real Estate Agents

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Police Blotter

Police Report 15 Crimes in Upper Macungie: Dec. 17 to Dec. 23

Berks-Lehigh Regional Police Department releases its weekly incident report for Dec.17 to Dec. 23.

Arrests The information was supplied by the Berks-Lehigh Regional Police Department, 610-683-8740. The police department provided no additional information on the reports or the arrests.

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Police Report 17 Crimes in Upper Macungie: Dec. 10 to Dec. 16

Berks-Lehigh Regional Police Department releases its weekly incident report for Dec. 10 to Dec. 16.

Arrests The information was supplied by the Berks-Lehigh Regional Police Department, 610-683-8740. The police department provided no additional information on the reports or the arrests.

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DA: Man Intended to Rape Real Estate Agent in Upper Macungie

Arrest of Bucks County man followed investigation by state Police at Fogelsville and Berks-Lehigh Regional Police. Arrests do not indicate a conviction.

DA: Man Intended to Rape Real Estate Agents

State Police at Fogelsville and Berks-Lehigh Regional Police investigated a report by a saleswoman for Pulte Homes in Upper Macungie. Arrests do not indicate a conviction.

  A 29-year-old Bucks County man has been charged with intending to subdue and sexually assault real estate agents by luring them into model homes, according to a release Friday from the Lehigh County District Attorney's office. Frank A. Yeager, of 111 Hickory Lane, West Rockhill Township, was charged Friday after an investigation by State Police at Fogelsville and Berks-Lehigh Regional Police. Police said he took steps toward committing the crimes. Yeager is charged with one count of criminal attempt rape, two counts of carrying firearms without a license, and one count of possessing instruments of crime, a misdemeanor of the first degree, according to the prepared release. He was arraigned through Central Booking by District Judge …

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Police Report 22 Crimes in Upper Macungie: Dec. 3 to Dec. 9

Berks-Lehigh Regional Police Department releases its weekly incident report for Dec. 3 to Dec. 9.

The information was supplied by the Berks-Lehigh Regional Police Department, 610-683-8740. The police department provided no additional information on the reports or the arrests.  

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Police Report 20 Crimes in Upper Macungie: Nov. 26 to Dec. 2

Berks-Lehigh Regional Police Department releases its weekly incident report for Nov. 26 to Dec. 2.

The information was supplied by the Berks-Lehigh Regional Police Department, 610-683-8740. The police department provided no additional information on the reports or the citations.

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Maxatawny to Drop Lawsuit Against Upper Macungie Over Police Force Assets

Citing progress in divvying up assets of the Berk-Lehigh Regional Police Force, Maxatawny supervisors decide to drop lawsuit against Upper Macungie and other member muncipalities.

  Maxatawny Township supervisors voted 3-0 to drop their lawsuit against Upper Macungie and other member municipalities of the Berks-Lehigh Regional Police Force, Maxatawny manager Justin Yaich said Friday. The decision to drop the lawsuit came 10 days after the Berks-Lehigh Regional Police Force Commission agreed to have the remaining assets of the regional police department appraised, then auctioned. The regional police force disbands at the end of the year, and Upper Macungie's new force begins operation Jan. 1. Upper Macungie Supervisor Sam Ashmar learned of the vote from Patch, saying it was "very good news." He had not yet gotten official word. "It seems that cooler heads will prevail," Ashmar said. "And hopefully, Maxatawny sees …

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