Officials used wiretaps after evidence surfaced that residents were trafficking drugs into the region from Columbia.
A look at the week's top news on Patch from around the region.
The snow will start some time after 2 p.m., the National Weather Service said.
So far this winter, five senior citizens in Montgomery County have died due to complications from the cold.
Plus, a priest who worked at parishes in Bucks and Montgomery counties has been put on leave by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Danny Vazquez was stabbed around 8:45 a.m. at the JBS plant on Souder Road in Franconia Township.
Two men were involved in a fatal stabbing at the JBS plant in Franconia Township, according to reports.
A 79-year-old Upper Dublin man reportedly wandered away from home on Jan. 19 and was later found dead nearby.
Cell phones don’t need cellular service in order to make emergency calls.
The former Montgomery County GOP chairman in November pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor indecent assault charge.
Incidents occurred in Abington, East Norriton, Limerick, Pottstown, Swarthmore, Havertown, and Aston, the District Attorney's Office said.
The law-enforcement officers are transitioning to new, dark uniform shirts, the county said.
The bomb threat forced the evacuation of the Montgomery County Courthouse Thursday morning.
Approximately 10 residential burglaries associated with the same subject have been reported in recent months, police said.
The Thursday morning threat disrupted the swearing in of Montgomery County’s new commissioner, Valerie Arkoosh.
Frein, 31, is charged in connection with the murder of Cpl. Bryon Dickson at the Blooming Grove State Police barracks on Sept. 12.
Snow will first fall early Monday, slowing the morning commute, and then turn into a nor'easter, according to the National Weather Service.
Rebecca Kim, 18, a first-year student at Temple University, died after falling from the eighth story of a Center City building.
Because the case was filed in Montgomery County, District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman will decide whether or not to press charges.
Troopers made 277 arrests for driving under the influence, State Police said.
All eight people who died from Dec. 24 and 28 were not wearing seat belts, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
According to toxicology testing, the coroner determined Bradley Stone killed himself by overdosing on Trazodone, Risperidone and mCPP.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and District Attorney’s DUI Unit announced this week they have formed a joint DUI Task Force.
Plus, charges have been filed in a fatal accident that killed three Bucks County teens in August.
Luke Sanderlin, 34, is facing charges for lying about being attacked by a mass murderer on the loose Monday.
Six people were killed Monday in a shooting spree throughout Montgomery County.
A Bensalem teenager boarding a school bus was struck and killed Wednesday by a driver who failed to stop for the bus, authorities said
Bradley Stone, 35, did not die from self-inflicted stab wounds as was previous stated by authorities, the coroner said.
Plus, charges have been filed in connection with a car accident that killed three Bucks County teens in August.
Brad Stone was found dead from self-inflicted stab wounds Tuesday about a half mile from his home in Montgomery County.
Bradley Stone, 35, is suspected of killing six people—his ex-wife and five of her family members—during a shooting spree Monday.
The shooter, identified as Bradley William Stone, 35, of Pennsburg, is suspected of killing six people in three separate locations Monday.
A fourth crime scene has been reported in Pennsburg, according to reports.
The shootings happened in Lansdale, Souderton and Lower Salford, according to reports.
Five people were killed and 239 injured over the four-day Thanksgiving weekend.
The former chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Committee must register as a sex offender, but will spend no time in prison.
The patient, who on Friday was in an isolation room at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, recently traveled to West Africa.
Scammers are calling residents and posing as sheriff’s deputies, the Sheriff’s Office said.
Indian Crest Middle School in Franconia was evacuated Thursday afternoon due a bomb threat.
Eric Frein will be represented by Robert Bernathy and Michael Weinstein at a rate of $178 an hour, according to reports.