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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

Missing PA Sisters Found, Police Say UPDATE: Both 17-year-old Andrea Rivas, and 15-year-old Jazmin Esteban returned home on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, police stated in an updated release. Additional information was not shared. ORIGINAL: Two York City teenage sisters are missing police announced on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. York City Police are asking the public for help finding 17-year-old Andrea Rivas, 15-year-old Jazmin Esteban. They were last seen together in the 400 block of Walnut Street but the date they were last seen and any descriptive details about them were not released. Anyone who…

by Jillian Pikora

05/30/2023

Police & Fire

PA Convict Escapes Police— Again, Authorities Say A 23-year-old convicted drug dealer and escapee has escaped from police— again, police announced on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Dayquawan Martaze Long was last spotted acting suspiciously at the Mcdonald's located at 425 North Enola Road around 2 a.m. on April 5, 2023, the East Pennsboro Police said. Officers arrived and made contact with him and quickly identified him as the former convict who was wanted on "several warrants for his arrest," but as that realization was made he "fled from officers on foot," as stated in the release. "An investigation found that Long was in pos…

by Jillian Pikora

05/30/2023

Lifestyle

$500K Powerball Won By PA Player A winning lottery ticket for Powerball for the drawing on Saturday, May 27, 2023, sold in Central Pennsylvania, according to lottery officials. The ticket matched all five balls, 21-28-31-48-49, but not the Double Play Powerball number 18, winning $500,000, less applicable withholding. It sold at Top Star Express, 299 West Lincoln Avenue, Myerstown, which will receive a $500 bonus for selling the winning ticket. More than 30,500 other PA Lottery tickets won prizes of various amounts in the drawing. Players find out if they've won any prizes by scanning the tickets at a Lottery…

by Jillian Pikora

05/30/2023

Police & Fire

Google Photos Account With Nude Children Owned By Manheim Man, Police Say A 20-year-old man posted naked photos of children under the age of ten to Google Photos, police say. Hayden L. Howard of the 1000 block of Eden Road in Lancaster, as arrested after an investigation into CyberTips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children was sent to city police. The uploads were matched to him through his email and IP addresses, police announced on Thursday, May 25, 2023. "A search warrant was executed at this address—a cell phone, which Hayden L. Howard used was seized during the execution of the search warrant," police said. On the device …

by Jillian Pikora

05/27/2023

News

Detoxing PA Inmate Dies 3 Days After Arrest: Authorities A 60-year-old man going through a detox protocol died at the Allegheny County Jail on May 25, 2023, county officials say. The unnamed man was "brought in by a local police department on a bench warrant for retail theft for another county and booked on May 22," county officials explained in a release late on Thursday. A drug screen showed he had opiates, including fentanyl, cocaine, and other drugs in his system so the jail healthcare staff "initiated a detox protocol for him," the officials explained in the release. The man was found unresponsive in his cell around 4 p.m. Thurs…

by Jillian Pikora

05/27/2023

Police & Fire

Drug Dealer With 'Gun' Drags Wheelchair-Bound Man Across Central PA Parking Lot: Police A 33-year-old convicted drug dealer came after a man in a wheelchair with what looked like a gun and dragged him from a moving vehicle until he surrendered his cellphone, Lower Allen Township police detailed in a release on Friday, May 26, 2023. Darren Edward Ross was arrested after police watched a video a witness took of the incident in the 2100 block of Cedar Run on Thursday, May 25, 2023. Ross had previously called the wheelchairbound man "making threats to come assault him," and "the victim had just gotten back to the complex from a convenience store and was returning to th…

by Jillian Pikora

05/26/2023

Police & Fire

Man Shot In Face In Harrisburg, Police Say A man has been shot in the face and his attempted killer is being sought by the police following a 3 a.m. shooting on Friday, May 26, 2023, Harrisburg Bureau of Police announced around 4 p.m. that same day. Michael E. Watlington is wanted in connection with the "life-threatening" shooting in the first block of Disbrow Street, according to police. When Harrisburg officers arrived they found the victim suffered from "a life-threatening gunshot wound to the face" and "immediately rushed (him) to a local hospital for emergency medical treatment," as stated in the police release.&nbs…

by Jillian Pikora

05/26/2023

Schools

PA School Staff Sends Nudes To Students Using Snapchat, Police Say An Elizabethtown middle school paraprofessional working as an in-school suspension monitor allegedly used Snapchat to send an unknown number of students nude images and— started having sexual contact with a 15-year-old, police announced on Friday, May 26, 2023. Megan Carlisle, 37, of Elizabethtown, sent the photos and images to numerous middle school students, Northwest Regional Police said. She is also accused of having sexual activity with a 15-year-old boy who was a student in the classroom of the employee. "Carlisle had touched and caressed his genital area during…

by Jillian Pikora

05/26/2023

Police & Fire

US Army Specialist Brandishing Guns Rams Car Into Apartments In PA: Police A US Army Specialist brandished two guns and slammed a car into an apartment building before fleeing and disappearing for approximately 15 hours, according to a police release the following evening and the suspect's social media. US Army Healthcare Specialist Andrez Q. Laboy Jr., 25, of Harrisburg, was arrested by US Marshals Fugitive Task Force around 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, May 24 after fleeing the wild scene the night before around 8:40 p.m., according to his LinkedIn and Derry Township police. The police had been called to the scene for reports of shots fired incident and a crash at …

by Jillian Pikora

05/25/2023

Police & Fire

20-Foot Fall Hospitalizes Wastewater Contractor In PA, Police Say (Update) A man was rescued from a tank at Ephrata Borough Authority’s wastewater treatment plant, authorities said. The 30-year-old man working as a contractor on a rehabilitation project plummeted into an empty concrete tank approximately 20 feet down around 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 25, 2023, authorities said. "Medical professionals used ladders to descend into the tank and treated the man inside, while crews outside prepared to (extricate) him, which took over an hour," police stated in a release around 6 p.m., adding, "Local fire companies worked together and lifted the patient out of the t…

by Jillian Pikora

05/25/2023

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