{"id":188779,"date":"2026-05-10T20:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188779\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:12:08","slug":"restaurant-shooting-suspect-nabbed-scam-from-nigeria-lower-bucks-co-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188779\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant Shooting Suspect Nabbed, Scam From Nigeria: Lower Bucks Co. News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA \u2014 The former parks director of Bristol Township has been charged with misappropriating funds.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a man wanted in a shooting at a Bensalem restaurant is behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>This is a summary of stories that made news this past week in Lower Bucks County:<\/p>\n<p>The man wanted for a shooting in a township restaurant last month has turned himself in to Bensalem police. (<a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/bensalem\/restaurant-shooter-arrested-bensalem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Bristol Township&#8217;s former parks and recreation director has been dismissed from her position after being charged with misappropriating funds, officials said. (<a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/levittown\/bristol-twp-employee-charged-misappropriating-funds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>State and local officials recently gathered at LugerMan Gun Shop in Langhorne to promote legislation that would increase penalties for gun store burglaries, using the site of a May 2023 break-in to underscore the issue. (<a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/levittown\/harsher-gun-theft-penalties-pushed-bucks-co-lawmaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The Bensalem Township Police Department is investigating several fraud attempts targeting residents and businesses due to a scam coming from Nigeria. (<a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/bensalem\/bensalem-police-warn-scam-nigeria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>A groundbreaking date has been set for the new $270 million Pennsbury High School next month. (<a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/levittown\/groundbreaking-date-set-new-pennsbury-high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA \u2014 The former parks director of Bristol Township has been charged with misappropriating funds.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-188779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}