Three men, including two from Reading, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges they robbed two employees of a skill game operator at gunpoint in Franklin County.<\/p>\n
Alfredo C. Padilla, 48, and Ceferino C. Hernandez, 49, both of Reading, and Paul G. Simmons, 51, of Philadelphia were charged Friday with robbery and firearm offenses, according to a release from U.S. Attorney Brian D. Miller of the Middle District of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
The three defendants conspired to rob two employees of the skill game operator on March 18, 2024, according to the release.<\/p>\n
Federal officials provided no further details.<\/p>\n
According to media reports that cited police and court documents:<\/p>\n
The defendants stole about $270,000 in skill games money that was in cases from two security guards at gunpoint as the guards were loading the money into a van outside a business at the Southgate Shopping Center in Chambersburg.<\/p>\n
The defendants, during their getaway, dumped the cases in different areas of Chambersburg, including at Caledonia State Park.<\/p>\n
Investigators tracked the getaway vehicle to a garage in Reading. Documents with Cardona\u2019s name on them were found inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Padilla, who was arrested in April 2024, is accused of being the getaway driver.<\/p>\n
Hernandez was arrested in January 2025.<\/p>\n
Information on Simmons\u2019 arrest was unavailable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men, including two from Reading, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges they robbed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,46,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-230835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-courts","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230835","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=230835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}