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	<title>IAPE Evidence Blog &#187; Pennsylvania</title>
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		<title>Cheryl Ruth, retired Bethlehem police officer, accused of stealing $19,000 from department</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[lehighvalleylive.com, PennLive LLC
BYLINE: JD Malone
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Bethlehem, PA
Retired Bethlehem police Sgt. Cheryl Ruth is accused of stealing $19,271 while she was in charge of the department’s property room, a news release from the police department says. She allegedly used the money to fuel Atlantic City gambling binges.
Ruth, 46, ran the city’s evidence room, where police [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Scranton detective gets up to two years in prison for theft</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times-Tribune, STATE AND REGIONAL NEWS
BYLINE: Erin L. Nissley, The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa.
Scranton, PA
July 08–A former Scranton detective who admitted stealing more than $8,400 from a police evidence room was sentenced Wednesday to serve four months to two years in prison.
Lackawanna County Judge Vito Geroulo said he will allow Leonard F. Ash Jr., 42, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police Upgrade Evidence System</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.wnep.com The News Station
BYLINE: Jim Hamill
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One Video
Williamsport, PA
Police in  have a new way of handling evidence thanks to a new system that was recently installed.
Williamsport Police investigate hundreds, if not thousands, of crimes every year. Many times, evidence of those crimes has to be kept behind closed doors. That is exactly the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DA says W. Pa. police had missing money, evidence</title>
		<link>http://evidenceblog.iape.org/2010/04/da-says-w-pa-police-had-missing-money-evidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press, Lebanon Daily News
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Lebanon, PA
A prosecutor says officers at a western Pennsylvania police department should be made to take lie detector and drug tests after money and evidence was found missing from its evidence room.
Washington County District Attorney Steve Toprani says record-keeping at the California Borough police department was poor and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Scranton detective pleads guilty for stealing drug money from evidence room</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Scranton Times Tribune, thetimes-tribune.com
BYLINE: Joe McDonald, Staff Writer
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Scranton, PA
Leonard F. Ash Jr., 42, of 3015 Jones St., admitted he stole more than $8,400 from the evidence room at the Scranton Police Department in a brief court appearance before Judge Vito Geroulo.
The cash, seized in a 2001 drug arrest at 636 N. Main [...]]]></description>
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