Keystone Cops: Two For The Price Of One

Keystone Cops is a daily look at crime, police, public safety and drug news. Homicide totals are unofficial.

• A man on trial for a litany of charges — including solicitation of murder and and car-jacking — came up with a novel defense: It was his twin brother who confessed, not him! They had traded cells in prison, he says. He’s not all bad, though: One of his alleged plans was to blow up the Gallery. [Inquirer]

• Right before robbing her 71-year-old uncle with an accomplice, the man’s niece wrote him a letter that read, in part: “It’s God’s will that you have Parkinson’s.” Ho ho! [Bucks County Courier Times]

• DVDs were stolen and then resold to locations at the Oxford Valley Mall. Clever. [BCCT]

• A man who caused a traffic accident that killed a man won’t be extradited but will be tried in Poland for his crimes, oddly enough. Yeah, I have no idea. [AP/Philly.com]