According to court documents, the suspect allegedly stabbed the victim in his chest after he asked her to turn her music down ...

Police say the victim remained on the phone with the scammer during the transaction and once it was complete, they were told ...

The issue arose at a meeting Wednesday when Berks County Jail System Warden Jeffrey Smith asked the board for guidance over a request he received from ICE to change its policy on detainers.

Critics who fought to close the Berks County immigrant-detention center called it a “baby jail,” a place that confined small children along with their parents. The facility drew lawsuits and ...

A Central Berks Regional police officer was on patrol in Mount Penn for fireworks Friday night when a resident threw a lit ...

Township woman was directed by someone who impersonated a member of the Berks County sheriff’s office to pay for a bond via a ...

To address the issue, Berks has teamed up with Dauphin and Lehigh counties to reopen and operate its former youth detention center on County Welfare Road in Bern Township that shuttered its doors ...

agents at Berks County Jail. "Recently, within the last week or so, ICE reached out to our warden and asked for us to reconsider our position on voluntary detainers," said Berks County ...

Online court records list Diaz-Release as in custody at Berks County Jail on $100,000 bail. He's scheduled to appear in court March 28 for a preliminary hearing.

The caller, who purported to be a member of the Berks County sheriff’s office ... to a subpoena for a hearing or spend 72 hours in jail. The recipient, a Spring Township woman, chose to pay.