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Jesse Bunch

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Jesse Bunch

    11 Philly business owners stole funds from program for low-income women and children, prosecutors say (opens the original)

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    Nearly a dozen Philadelphia-area small business owners stole almost $1 million in public funds by defrauding a program designed to support low-income mothers and their children, authorities said Thursday. The businesses accused of fraud are small groceries or corner stores located throughout the city, according to the attorney general’s office, which announced Thursday that it had charged 11 people with theft by deception, forgery, and related crimes. Prosecutors said the business owners submi

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Jesse Bunch

    Black Panther-style group members arrested in Chester, as mayor decries their presence (opens the original)

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    The leader of a Philadelphia offshoot of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was charged with a firearms crime for carrying a concealed gun without a permit in the city of Chester — and the group’s growing visibility in the Delaware County community is sparking a clash with the city’s mayor. Paul Birdsong, who founded Philly’s Panther group, was arrested this summer during what the group says was an armed community patrol of Chester’s streets. Birdsong had been carrying two holste

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Jesse Bunch

    41 arrested in HUD-backed operation targeting Philly fugitives receiving public housing assistance (opens the original)

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    Forty one people in Philadelphia and surrounding areas were arrested in a sweeping operation conducted by the U.S. Marshals Violent Crime Fugitive Task Force this month, the agency said Monday. The effort, dubbed “Operation Moving Day” targeted people wanted for violent felonies who were living in federally subsidized housing. The initiative is part of a larger federal criminal enforcement campaign being carried out in cities across the country this year by the Inspector General’s Office o

  4. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Jesse Bunch

    ‘I was extremely terrified’: Center City jogger recounts ‘Chucky’ terror as masked man appears in court (opens the original)

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    For Blake Fleischer, an early morning jog in Center City last month began like any other. But it ended in terror, she said as she recalled running into traffic near City Hall, seeking help as a man wearing a Chucky-style horror mask followed close behind. “I was extremely terrified,” Fleischer, 40, testified Wednesday in Philadelphia Municipal Court. There, prosecutors presented evidence that they said outlined the way Zymire Hughes scared and harassed more than a dozen pedestrians early in

  5. Article · Sep 21, 2026 · Jesse Bunch

    Camille Joseph left Haiti for a better life in Philadelphia. His family wonders why he was fatally shot in Nicetown. (opens the original)

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    In the wake of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Camille Joseph and his family left the island for a better life in Philadelphia. Joseph found that in the city, said his sister, Ophtanie. But his life was tragically cut short on Sept. 11, when first responders found the 25-year-old in the parking lot of a bustling Nicetown shopping center suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. He was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at Temple University Hospital. Police have not identified a

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