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Friday, December 14, 2012

Police & Fire Blotter

'Incident' Brings Police Near Levittown Schools

Police were centered in the Highland Park section of Middletown Township Friday afternoon for what was a possible shooting.

Staff and students at two schools in the Highland Park section of Levittown in Middletown were "never in any danger" Friday afternoon following an "incident" that spawned a large police response, officials said. Emergency scanner reports at the time stated a "shooting" had been reported,  and the schools nearby were taking precautions. The incident happened on the same day when a gunman is reported to have shot and killed 27 people including 18 children at an elementary school in Connecticut. Middletown Township Police appeared to be focusing their attention on a house at the corner of Heartwood Turn and Heartwood Road. The police activity was located at the entrance driveway of Carl Sandburg Middle School. An officer at the scene said the…

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Police & Fire Blotter

Police: Man Approaches Boy Walking Home [Updated]

Thursday's incident marks the second in the Highland Park section of Middletown in recent weeks.

Friday, 9:19 a.m.: The mother of the fourth-grade boy reports that the man was a neighbor. The man was just attempting to help the boy. Police and school have been notified. Thursday, 1017 p.m.: Police are looking into an incident where an unknown man in a minivan stopped and offered a elementary-aged boy a ride Thursday in Middletown. A young girl was walking home from Albert Schweitzer Elementary School and Carl Sandburg Middle School in the Highland Park section of Levittown when a tall white man in his 30s stopped his silver minivan next to a fourth-grade student walking in front of the girl, police said. When the incident began to unfold, the girl told officers she hid in a nearby bush at the corner of Heartwood and Hedge roads and …

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