Dan Nephin

1 week ago | lancasteronline.com | Dan Nephin

A Quarryville teen pictured holding a newly purchased rifle in a social media post that prompted a school shooting scare in January was accepted into a program in Lancaster County Court to resolve his case without conviction. “This is a case where a 19-year-old with no prior record reposted an Instagram message without thinking through the consequences of how it could be misinterpreted as a threat to others,” Michael Winters, attorney for Garrett Swayne, said Wednesday.

1 week ago | lancasteronline.com | Dan Nephin

A basketball coach from New York who head-butted and punched a referee whose call he disagreed with will spend a year on probation and pay the victim $507 restitution to avoid a criminal conviction. Jomo Errol Belfor, 42, of Mount Vernon, is also banned from Spooky Nook Sports, must perform 50 hours of community service, and must take an anger management class as part of his conditions to be in the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program.

1 week ago | lancasteronline.com | Dan Nephin

A Lancaster County judge had to send home around 24 people who were in his courtroom Tuesday morning for protection from abuse hearings because no sheriff deputies were available to provide security. Most of the people in the dozen cases were before Judge Craig Stedman representing themselves and did not have an attorney. They would have been the people who had recently gotten a temporary order and the person they were seeking a permanent order against.

1 week ago | lancasteronline.com | Dan Nephin

A basketball coach from New York who head-butted and punched a referee whose call he disagreed with will spend a year on probation and pay the victim $507 restitution to avoid a criminal conviction. Jomo Errol Belfor, 42, of Mount Vernon, is also banned from Spooky Nook Sports, must perform 50 hours of community service, and must take an anger management class as part of his conditions to be in the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program.

1 week ago | lancasteronline.com | Dan Nephin

Convicted killer Jere Bagenstose has about a month and a half of freedom left. Bagenstose, who is free on $925,000 bail, will be sentenced June 17 for the killing of his estranged wife, Maryann Bagenstose, in June 1984. Her body has never been found. Adams County Senior Judge John D. Kuhn will sentence Bagenstose at a hearing scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in Courtroom 12 of the Lancaster County Courthouse at 50 N. Duke St. in Lancaster city.