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Ryan Hemighaus is escorted by a deputy sheriff to a Montgomery County courtroom for his guilty plea hearing. (Photo by Carl Hessler Jr. \u2013 MediaNews Group)<\/p>\nNORRISTOWN \u2014 A Philadelphia man admitted that he illegally possessed a gun, methamphetamine and a stolen motorcycle when police discovered him trespassing at a vacant warehouse in Lower Providence Township.<\/p>\n
Ryan Hemighaus, 35, most recently of the 400 block of Green Lane, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court to charges of carrying a firearm without a license, receiving stolen property, defiant trespass and possession of a controlled substance in connection with the Nov. 4, 2025, incident.<\/p>\n
Judge Todd D. Eisenberg deferred sentencing so that court officials can complete a background investigation report about Hemighaus, who will undergo drug, alcohol and mental health evaluations.<\/p>\n
Hemighaus, who also listed an address along North Cleveland Street in Philadelphia, faces a possible maximum sentence of 2 to 4 years in prison on the charges, which is being sought by prosecutors.<\/p>\n
Assistant District Attorney Courtney McMonagle is handling the case. Defense lawyer Jason C. Kadish represented Hemighaus during the court proceeding.<\/p>\n
Ryan Hemighaus is escorted by a deputy sheriff to a Montgomery County courtroom for his guilty plea hearing. (Photo by Carl Hessler Jr. \u2013 MediaNews Group)<\/p>\n
Hemighaus did not comment about the charges as he was escorted by sheriff\u2019s deputies from the courtroom. Hemighaus will remain in jail while awaiting his sentencing hearing.<\/p>\n
The investigation began about 6:34 p.m. Nov. 4 when a Lower Providence police officer was dispatched to the 900 block of Rittenhouse Road in the Audubon section of the township for a report of suspicious activity, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
At that location, according to police, is a warehouse structure that has been vacant for many years and there are \u201cNo Trespassing\u201d signs posted around the exterior of the building.<\/p>\n
The arriving officer found a motorcycle parked in the far northeast corner of the lot and determined the ignition was \u201cpunched,\u201d allowing the vehicle to be started by a means other than a factory-issued key. The officer determined that the motorcycle had been reported stolen in Lower Merion on Oct. 27, 2025, according to the arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n
Police also observed a backpack leaning against the motorcycle. When police checked the contents of the backpack they found a Glock 19 9mm firearm loaded with 18 rounds of ammunition. Police also found a debit card in Hemighaus\u2019 name inside the backpack.<\/p>\n
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Ryan Hemighaus is taken into custody by sheriff\u2019s deputies to await his sentencing hearing in Montgomery County Court. (Photo by Carl Hessler Jr. \u2013 MediaNews Group)<\/p>\n
The search of the backpack also uncovered a small sandwich-type bag that contained a crystal rock-like substance determined to be methamphetamine<\/p>\n
Hemighaus was found inside the vacant warehouse and was taken into custody for defiant trespass.<\/p>\n
\u201cA search incident to arrest was conducted of his person. Inside of his front sweatshirt pocket an orange-handle screwdriver was located. This screwdriver had been notched and altered at the tool end. This type of device can be used to manually start a vehicle or motorcycle that has a \u2018punched\u2019 ignition,\u201d Lower Providence Police Corporal Jeremy S. Bonner alleged in the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
According to testimony and court documents, Hemighaus has a previous arrest and conviction for unlawful contact with a minor in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORRISTOWN \u2014 A Philadelphia man admitted that he illegally possessed a gun, methamphetamine and a stolen motorcycle when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[46,182,139,28,69,71,70,1015],"class_list":["post-260331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-courts","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-top-stories-mer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260331","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=260331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}