Crime & Safety

Bensalem School Scandal: Who Owes What?

Sentences and restitution orders have been handed out to all but five of the 20 Bensalem school district employees and community members who participated in theft schemes that cost the district $1.5 million.

The sentencing is almost complete for the 20 people who pleaded guilty to participating in schemes that cost the Bensalem School District approximately $1.5 million.

According to phillyburbs.com, Judge Wallace Bateman ordered William Slowe to serve six to 23 months in prison, which can be served at his home, five years probation and pay $50,000 in restitution.

Slowe was a member of "The Breakfast Club" a classic car club that was allowed to pick through parts of district vehicles that had been given to a junkyard by Frederick Lange, a former mechanic for the Bensalem School District.

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Six more defendants still await their sentencing, including Lange, district employees Joseph and Shannon Dyer, and Ronald Stoud, Elwyn Smith and Robert Lord Sr., all members of the classic car club.

The following is a list of the remaining defendants and the sentences they received according to documents on the Judicial System of Pennsylvania website:

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Current and Former District Employees

  • Former 28-year district business manager Jack Myers: 100 hours of community service and $15,000 restitution.
  • Facilities manager Robert Moseley: Two years probation, 100 hours of community service and $87,511 restitution.
  • District bus mechanic Patrick Hammon: 50 hours community service and $1,000 restitution.
  • Mechanic Roland “Tex” Angle: 18 months probation, 50 hours of community service and $2,000 restitution.

“Ghost Employees”

  • Groundskeeper Anthony Ruggiero: 10 to 23 months confined to house arrest, 12 month probation, 150 hours of community service and $42,891 restitution.

Stolen Property Receivers and Distributors

  • Alfred Venturino: Four years probation, 100 hours of commuity service and $8,070 restitution.
  • Bound Beverages owner Joseph Bound: Two to 23 months confined to house arrest, 100 hours community service and $90,000 restitution.
  • Classic car club member William Klosz: 10 hours community service and $2,000 restitution.
  • Classic car club member Leo Cannon: 50 hours community service, $2,000 restitution.
  • Upper Bucks County junkyard owner Joel Zober: 50 hours community service and $8,000 restitution.
  • Tow truck operator Wilson Lopez, 29: 24 months probation and $1,000 restitution.


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