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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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Police & Fire

NJ Native Bites Multiple Officers Over $6 Theft At PA Walmart: Police A $6 shoplifting incident at a Pennsylvania Walmart that sent five police officers on a foot chase— two were bitten by the suspect, according to a police release on Tuesday, January 10. Rygo Alexander Kingsley, 23, currently of Lancaster, PA, and native to North Brunswick, NJ, was acting "suspicious" at the Walmart located at 2030 Fruitville Pike on Nov. 29, 2022, authorities say. Manheim Township police were called to the store as part of the "on-going investigation against him for retail theft," as stated in the release by the department. The person who called the police knew Kingsley an…

by Jillian Pikora

01/10/2023

News

Found Chambersburg Teen Missing Since Christmas Eve, State Police Say UPDATE Feryi Sarate-Mancio has been found safe on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023; no additional details have been released. The state police thank the public for their assistance. Chambersburg: *UPDATE* Feryi SERATE-MANCIO was located on 01/11/21. Thank you everyone who shared. — Trooper Megan Frazer (@PSPTroopHPIO) January 11, 2023 ORIGINAL A 15-year-old from Chambersburg has been missing since Christmas Eve, according to a release by the Pennsylvania state police on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. Feryi Sarate-Mancio was reported missing on Jan. 3, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Megan Frazier s…

by Jillian Pikora

01/10/2023

News

Non-Verbal Wheelchair-Bound Man Abandoned By Caretaker In Car In Central PA, Police Say In only a t-shirt and shorts, a non-verbal wheelchair-bound 34-year-old man was found abandoned by his caretaker, authorities say. The paid caregiver 63-year-old Joseph Mbugua Munyambu, on Jan. 7 at 10:53 a.m., according to a release by the Middletown Borough police. Officers were first called to the 100 Block of Pathfinder Drive for an abuse/neglect call around 9:30 a.m. A witness saw "an unattended male in the backseat of a parked vehicle for an extended period of time, and the vehicle was not running," according to a release by the department the following Monday.…

by Jillian Pikora

01/09/2023

News

Road Rage Suspect Sought By Camp Hill Police A road rage incident happened on Friday, Jan. 6, the Camp Hill police say. The white, older model Hyundai Santa Fe SUV pictured was involved in a road rage incident that occurred in the 100 block of November Drive in Camp Hill around 4:40 p.m., according to a release by the department the following Monday. The police are asking the public for assistance identifying the vehicle's driver and passenger. The vehicle was last seen driving westbound on April Drive, possibly toward Trindle Road. Details about the road rage incident were not release. Anyone wit…

by Jillian Pikora

01/09/2023

Police & Fire

Road Rage Man Points Gun At Teens In Harrisburg, State Police Say A road rage incident escalated to the point where a man pulled out a gun and pointed it at a group of teenagers on Dec. 17, 2022, according to a release by the Pennsylvania state police on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. The teenagers, a 17-year-old Hershey girl, and two Harrisburg boys, an 18-year-old and a 19-year-old, were in traffic at the intersection of Jonestown Road and Allentown Boulevard when 54-year-old Ronald Lee Baum of Harrisburg pulled out the gun around 2:05 p.m., as detailed in the release. What led up to the incident was not released. Baum was charged o…

by Jillian Pikora

01/09/2023

Police & Fire

Insurance Salesman Uses Baseball Bat In Beatdown In Central PA: Police An insurance salesman in Cumberland County has been after he beat a neighbor and their vehicle with a baseball bat on Jan. 6., authorities say. The Upper Allen police were called to the home of 27-year-old Judson Parker Masland who was involved in a fight outside his residence on the 300 block of Melbourne Lane, Mechanicsburg. at around 8 p.m. During the fight, Masland used a baseball bat to cause "bodily injury" to a neighbor and their car, according to the police release. The Carlisle native has been held at the Cumberland County prison on charges of aggravated assault with a …

by Jillian Pikora

01/09/2023

News

York Felon Charged With Rape, Murder After Woman's 'Suspicious Death' In Harrisburg Garden A known criminal has been charged with rape ad murder 15 days after a woman's body was found under "suspicious" circumstances, authorities say. The unnamed woman was found in Harrisburg's Sunken Garden in Riverfront Park along North Front Street near Verbeke Street on Thursday, December 22, 2022, around 11:30 a.m., according to a release by area police that evening. Officers called to the scene "immediately initiated" an investigation. Brandon Martinex, 35, of York, was arrested in connection with this killing on Friday, Jan. 6, authorities announced over the weekend.&nbs…

by Jillian Pikora

01/09/2023

Obituaries

Man Found Dead Two Days After 35 Birthday At LanCo. Apartment Complex A Mountville man has been identified as the victim of a deadly shooting at a Lancaster Apartment complex according to the Lancaster County coroner's office on Tuesday, January 10. Hector Raefel Burgos-Torres was found shot to death under what police call "suspicious" circumstances n the area of Lincoln West Apartments in Mountville on Sunday, Jan. 8— two days after his 35 birthday, according to his obituary. Around 4 a.m. West Hempfield Township police had been called to the apartment complex "for a burglary in progress," when they discovered the man's body, the police announced on Monda…

by Jillian Pikora

01/09/2023

Obituaries

Rt 30 Red-Light Truck Crash Kills Ephrata Woman: York County Coroner A 55-year-old Ephrata woman died in a crash involving a tractor-trailer in York County County on Saturday, Jan. 7, according to a release by the coroner's office. Mary P. Escobar of the 100 block of Ashley Drive, hit the back of a truck's tractor (no trailer was hitched on at the time) when she excleated as it was stopped in front t of her for a red light in the eastbound lane on Route 30 near North Hills Road in Springettsbury Township at 8:15 p.m., as detailed by the coroner's officer. Witnesses at the scene told authorities they saw Escobar accelerate her vehicle just before …

by Jillian Pikora

01/09/2023

Police & Fire

Teen Beats Ex's New Girl With Baseball Bat By Popular PA Diner, Police Say As a teenager, love can seem to hurt more than any other time in your life but for one girl in Pennsylvania news of her new boyfriend led her to feel some serious pain. A fight over a boy led to broken bones and blood loss after a 17-year-old girl brought a bat to a fight outside of a popular Pennsylvania diner, authorities say. Pennsylvania state police were called to the alleyway behind Coal Miner's Diner in Jennerstown, a restaurant known for its Death By Chocolate cake, where two girls were apparently having a fight to the death in a love triangle showdown on Dec. 30, 2022 around 7:45 …

by Jillian Pikora

01/07/2023

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