While the “leaders” in Lower Southampton Township push forward in spending more than ten million dollars on a Community Center no one in the community seems to want, crime in the community appears to be raging out of control.

If the bank robberies, community firefighters being arrested for arson and people being assaulted in their own driveways weren’t enough, Township gas station attendants can now look forward being robbed, having semi-automatic pistols shoved in their faces, and being forced to the ground.

7:30 PM.  On a Monday evening.

What day or time is it safe to be out and about shopping, dining, banking or filling up your tank in Lower Southampton Township? Banks are robbed in broad daylight, people are sticking guns in other peoples’ faces in early evening, folks out for a late night stroll are punched in the face in their driveways and firefighters are allegedly running around at all hours setting things on fire.

Forget the Community Center, how about a little more money for cops?  Screw the smoking ban, how about we put some resources into enforcing the sticking-guns-in-faces ban?

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Another October 3, another OJ Simpson criminal trial verdict.

Activity across the nation paused at 1PM Eastern on October 3, 1995, when a Los Angeles Jury found OJ Simpson not guilty of murdering his ex-wife and her friend Ron Goldman on June 12, 1994.  Simpson was later found civilly liable for their deaths.

Tonight, October 3, 2008, in Las Vegas where the most recent trial was held, Simpson has been found guilty on all 12 felony counts related to an armed robbery that took place in a Las Vegas hotel in September 2007.

The verdict came after 13 hours of deliberation Friday.

Count 1 - Conspiracy to Commit a Crime - Guilty
Count 2 - Conspiracy to Commit Kidnapping - Guilty
Count 3 - Conspiracy to Commit Robbery - Guilty
Count 4 - Burglary While in Possession of Deadly Weapon - Guilty
Count 5 - First Degree Kidnapping With Use of a Deadly Weapon - Guilty
Count 6 - First Degree Kidnapping With Use of a Deadly Weapon - Guilty
Count 7 - Robbery With Use of a Deadly Weapon - Guilty
Count 8 - Robbery With Use of a Deadly Weapon - Guilty
Count 9 - Assault With a Deadly Weapon - Guilty
Count 10 - Assault With a Deadly Weapon - Guilty
Count 11 - Coercion With Use of a Deadly Weapon - Guilty
Count 12 - Coercion With Use of a Deadly Weapon - Guilty

Simpson’s co-defendant Clarence Stewart was also found guilty on all counts.  The men could be in jail for the rest of their lives.  For Simpson, it hardly seems long enough.

Is Bucks County becoming the bank robbery capital of Pennsylvania?  According to the Courier-Times, the Citizen’s Bank at Middletown’s 413 and New Falls Road intersection was robbed this morning.  The Lower Southampton Fulton Bank was robbed yesterday.  There have been several other bank robberies in the area as well.

Apparently unrelated, police from several local departments and county officials descended on a nearby apartment building to protect residents from a suicidal gun-wielding man reportedly barricaded inside who, as it turns out, was at work at the time and apparently neither suicidal nor armed.

I feel safe.  Maybe it’s time to descend on the banks and leave the empty apartments undefended.

A gunman armed with a silver semi-automatic robbed the Fulton Bank on Street Road in Lower Southampton Township this afternoon before fleeing in a white Ford pickup truck.

The suspect is a white male with a tall, thin build. He has dirty blond hair and a mustache. He was wearing a dark baseball hat, sunglasses, a black v-neck type pullover, a windbreaker and jeans.

Police are asking anyone who recognizes the man in the picture to call them at 215-357-1235.

Random violence or a grudge? The kind of physical attacks that have been cropping up all over Bucks County have made their way to Lower Southampton Township.

According to Courier Times Now, a 26-year-old man was attacked by three men in his Meadowbrook Road driveway a little after 1 AM this morning.  The victim told police the attackers were white, around 18-years-old and wearing dark “hoodies” and pants.

One of the attackers made a comment about meeting back up with the others at Top of the Hill Apartments. Hardly shocking news there.

Maybe, when caught, the attackers will get sent to camp?  Things like this only get worse until we decide to take them seriously.

In his driveway! Where in the area are people safe to walk the street?

In certain circles, vandalizing a place of worship by spray-painting slogans that are antagonistic to the religion practiced there and destroying or defacing religious artifacts would be considered a hate crime.  Not if that place of worship happens to be a Catholic parish in Levittown, though.

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Ben Finley of The Courier Times is reporting that the 5 youths implicated in Saturday night’s gang attack in Levittown’s North Park (Falls Township) will be charged as juveniles. Police have determined that the attack was likely random.  Not comforting.

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