'War' In Montco / Gay Beating / Massive Drug Bust: Top PA Crime News Of 2015

Throughout the year, Patch highlighted the top crime stories across Pennsylvania in weekly roundups.

Every week, there was an abundance of bizarre, disturbing, and unlikely crime news coming out of communities around the region.

From huge gang busts, murders drawn from horror movie scripts, and other incidents that captured widespread public attention, law enforcement was kept busy this past year.

Here is the full countdown of the top ten crime stories on Patch in Pennsylvania during 2015:

10. Massive Heroin and Cocaine Ring Busted In Montco

Five men were arrested in the trafficking operation which continued to thrive despite arrests in June.

9. Man Killed Father With Sword In Langhorne: Police

Eli Goodrich, 26, has been charged with criminal homicide and possessing an instrument of crime in the killing of Alan Goodrich.

8. Bucks County Addresses ‘Credible Threat: Gangs Threaten To ‘Take Out’ Police Officers

Baltimore Police distributed information about the takedown threat Monday morning to law enforcement nationwide.

7. Couple Found Dead, Killed By Chainsaw In Lower Moreland

The couple’s juvenile son found his parents dead with cuts from a chainsaw.

6. Murder at Meat Packing Plant Was Retaliation For Prank

A man pulled the chair out from underneath his coworker. It proved to be a fatal move.

5. Children’s Author Faces 580 Years In Prison For Filming Child Porn With Hidden Bathroom Camera

The suspect allegedly had the camera hidden and recording girl undressing for four years.

4. Transgender Woman Assaulted, Killed By 5 Men In Philadelphia

Police are investigating whether or not the brutal slaying was a hate crime.

3. Three Bucks Residents Who Allegedly Beat Gay Couple Surrender To Police

“This vicious attack shocked the entire country.”

2. Father Of Teen Driver In Poconos Crash Pleads Guilty

The father of an unlicensed teen who was driving during a car crash that killed three Council Rock South students has pleaded guilty.

1. ‘War’ In Montco Stopped, Mass Arrest Of Gangs, DA Says

Months of escalating inter-gang violence and drug activity were halted by “Operation War Ready” and thirty-four arrests, the DA said.