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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.

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News

Two Rooms Burned In Arsonist's Blaze At Carlisle Motel: Police A Carlisle motel was set on fire on Thursday, March 2, 2023, Middlesex Township police stated in a release the following day. Roy Sampson, 57, of Carlise, was in a vacant room trying to start a fire when the police were called to the Diamond Carlisle Motel located at 1245 Harrisburg Pike, according to the release. Upon arrival, officers found two vacant rooms "actively on fire." "Officers would speak to a witness and soon after would locate the suspect, Roy Sampson walking through the parking lot of the motel," as stated in the release. Sampson was arrested at 12:48 p.m…

by Jillian Pikora

03/03/2023

News

Missing 17-Year-Old York County Girl Found Safe: PSP UPDATE: Emily Sweatt, 17, of Stewartstown was found safe on the evening of March 3, 2023, and has been taken back home, according to a release by the Pennsylvania State Police on Monday, March 6. ORIGINAL: A 17-year-old York County girl has gone missing from her home, Pennsylvania State Police say. Emily Sweatt, of the 3000 block of Stewartstown Road, Hopewell Township, left home sometime between 2 and 6 a.m. on March 2, 2023, PSP Troop J announced the following afternoon. "She has been known to travel to the York City area," police say. Additional informatio…

by Jillian Pikora

03/03/2023

News

14-Year-Old Girl Raped While Unconscious By Employee At Shippensburg Sheetz, Police Say A "heavily intoxicated" 14-year-old girl who had been vomiting in a Sheetz restroom passed out and an employee raped her, Shippensburg police say in court documents obtained by Daily Voice. Sheetz employee, 22-year-old Demarcus Shamir Johnson, had previously flirted with the girl but her older sister warned him to stay away and told him her age, as detailed in the affidavit of probable cause. The girl was drunk and went to the restroom to vomit, she was in and out of it and her memory was hazy but at one point she remembered leaning over the toilet to vomit. Next, she was s…

by Jillian Pikora

03/03/2023

Police & Fire

3-4 Year-Old Boy Found In Lancaster County Street, Police Say No photo has been released of a young boy found walking alone in a Lancaster County street on Friday, March 3, 2023. He was spotted walking in the area of Fourth Street in Columbia Borough, area police say. Additional information was not released. Anyone with information about this boy or his parents or if you are missing a child; contact the Columbia Borough Police Department at 717-684-7735.

by Jillian Pikora

03/03/2023

News

Infant With Missing Manheim Mom Who Overdosed At Gas Station: Police A woman was found with blue lips and grey skin at a Lancaster area Sunoco Gas station while a 1-year-old infant was with her, authorities say. Kaitlyn Rebecca Wertz, 29, of Lancaster, was found laying on her back near the checkout of the gas station located at 1136 Harrisburg Pike in Lancaster, on Feb. 23, 2023, Manheim Township police explained in a release on Friday, March 3. Wertz was unconscious when EMS arrived and they used three doses of NARCAN to revive her, according to the police release. "In the store with Wertz, at the time of her overdose, was a 1-year-old child. No one was …

by Jillian Pikora

03/03/2023

News

VA Man Kidnaps, Assaults Woman In Central Pennsylvania, Police Say A Virginia Man has been taken into police custody shortly after kidnapping and assaulting a woman in central Pennsylvania on Friday, March 3, police say. The woman who 36-year-old Charles Wilson held hostage is safe now, according to both Pennsylvania state police and Swatara Township police. Wilson and the victim are from Roanoke, according to the police. Why they were in the Harrisburg area is unclear. Police were called following an early morning domestic dispute in Swatara Township, where it was clear that "the female was taken from the scene against her will," police say. H…

by Jillian Pikora

03/03/2023

News

Garbage Truck Driver Charged With Homicide By Vehicle In Lebanon Co: Police A passenger apparently dead from serious injuries sustained in the 2021 garbage truck crash in Lebanon County and nearly two years later, police have announced the arrested of the driver. On Thursday, March 2, 2023, at 8:30 a.m., 26-year-old Zachary Gilbert, was arrested in connection with the crash at State Drive just south of Stonehedge Drive at 8:45 a.m. on Friday, June 4, according to the South Lebanon Township Police Department. Upon arrival at the scene, the officers found the passenger with "numerous serious injuries," but it was not stated when they died and their identit…

by Jillian Pikora

03/02/2023

News

GOT HIM! Man Shot Girl In 'Pelvic Region' After She Denied Him Sex At PA Hotel Arrested: Police UPDATE: Daronte Anthony Brown, 18, of Monroeville has been arrested without incident in connection with this shooting on Feb. 21, 2023, following an anonymous 911 tip, Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers announced on March 2, 2023. Updated court documents were unavailable when Daily Voice inquired that day. ORIGINAL: A 16-year-old girl and her 14-year-old friend were shot at while waiting for an Uber at a Pittsburgh area Red Roof Inn, because the older girl "refused to do sex stuff," with a Monroeville man, authorities detail quoting witnessing in the court documents obtained by Daily V…

by Jillian Pikora

03/02/2023

Schools

Elementary School Threats Made By Sub. PA State Police Say (Update) The threats that closed a Lancaster County elementary are now known to have been called in by a substitute teacher's aide, according to an updated release by the Pennsylvania State Police on Thursday, March 2, 2023. Naomi Shayanna Wenger, 20, of Lancaster, was linked by her phone number to the threats made to Martic Elementary School in the Penn Manor School District around 2:19 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23, according to Pennsylvania State Police Trooper James Grothey. "Building staff immediately contacted Pennsylvania State Police, and the school was placed on lockdown. No one was…

by Jillian Pikora

03/02/2023

News

PA Woman Missing For Over 30 Years Found Alive In Puerto Rico: Authorities A missing street preacher from Pennsylvania has been "found alive and well" in Puerto Rico, authorities announced in a press conference on Thursday, March 2, 2023. Patricia "Pat" Gail Kopta, had not been seen since June 20, 1992, and her husband Robert "Bob" Kopta reported her missing on Nov. 27 of that year, according to the police. She had a history of mental health issues and had disappeared before, so although there were rumors of a mugging and her jewelry being stolen, the police say family and friends knew she was looking for mental health treatment and her disappearance "…

by Jillian Pikora

03/02/2023

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