F.B.I. ARREST PHILADELPHIA PHILANTHROPIST EX-CON
(CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia Philanthropist Joseph Mammana was arrested at his Bucks Countyjoe2.jpg
An F.B.I. arrest affidavit released Thursday states businessman Joseph Mammana, owner of Yardley Farms LLC, was arrested for a firearms violations.
The affidavit states, “Mammana knowingly possessed in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce a firearm after previously having been convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year in prison.”
Authorities said the F.B.I. searched Mammana’s home in the 600 block of Sedgley Avenue in Yardley, Wednesday, in connection to an I.R.S. investigation, seeking tax and business records.
During the search agents discovered a loaded handgun in a master-bedroom nightstand.
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Mammana is well known throughout the Delaware Valley for making generous donations to the Citizen’s Crime Commission, providing reward money to help solve high profile criminal cases.
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