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Finding $3,000 at Gap grocery - and not turning it in - comes with costly lesson
from Lancaster Online
A Chester County man learned a costly lesson when he found and kept a $3,000 wad of cash someone dropped at a Gap grocery store a year ago.
To be exact, it cost him $1,815 — and 75 cents. And 20 hours of community service. And who-knows-how-much money for a lawyer.
A Lancaster County judge last month ordered Lawrence Sandstrom, 80, of Parkesburg, to pay the $1,815.75, which covers court costs and a $650 fee to enter a yearlong probationary program that will let him avoid a criminal conviction.
The End of an Era: Szilagyi Law LLC Bids Adieu to Retiring Attorney Alan Goldberg,
from Lancaster Online
Szilagyi Law LLC’s letter to Attorney Goldberg celebrating his career and retirement.
Lancaster County Jury Acquits Man of Illegal Gun Possession,
from Lancaster Online
If police find a gun in a car someone is borrowing and the driver says he didn’t know it was there, is he in possession of it?
In the case of Leroy Wise Jr., a Lancaster County jury said no.
The jury agreed with the Lancaster man and acquitted him Tuesday of illegally possessing a gun, which city police found after they stopped him July 15, 2020, for a broken brake light and then moved the car because his license was suspended.
Body Camera Footage Clears Man Cited in York City Fight,
from York Dispatch
Footage from a York City police officer's body camera has cleared a man cited with disorderly conduct for his purported involvement in an after-hours street brawl outside a city bar.
"I was very pleasantly surprised when I got to the hearing" and learned the citation was being withdrawn, said Lancaster-based defense attorney Adam Szilagyi, who represented Joshua Rojas.
At that hearing, Rojas and his attorney were informed that Officer Matthew Irvin — who was York City's 2014 officer of the year — was withdrawing the citation after reviewing footage recorded by the body camera he wears, according to Szilagyi.