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der _ es Lower Southampton Township officials said they hope to bring new Information about Edward ¥. Heffernan, the Feasterville lay religious leader now on parole for storing explosives at his Street Road shrine, to an investigating grand jury that will be umpaneled Feb. 20. Charles A. Raudenbush Jr., secretary, treasurer of the board of super fast ‘Seals said as provide the Bucks. ‘County District Attorney’s office with Informa tion that could lead to new charges being brought against Heffernan. Heffernan pleaded guilty in Bucks County Court in March to charges of risking a catastrophe by storing volatile explosives at the Venerable Anna Catherina Emmerick Academy and Shrine on Street Road in Feasterville. He served 10 months on a work release program before being paroled in December. But the former headmaster was involved in other activities, such as questionable fund-raising tac tics, possible firearms violations and inappropriate use of federal school lunch funds, that could lead to criminal charges, Raudenbush said. District Attorney Michael J. Kane last week said he passed information about those activities to the “appropriate law enforce ment officials' at the state and federal level. With the existing information ht has, Kane said, his office has no grounds on which to bring fur ther charges against Heffernan at the county level. As a condition of parole, Heffernan was barred from being associated with any school, church, religious or charitable organiation in the county, and he was forbidden from reopening the Street Road facility. But those conditions will expire when Heffernan’s parole ends in April 1986 and Raudenbush said he and other township officials want a more permanent way of keeping the shrine closed. In November, township offi cials asked Kane to initiate a “broad-based grand jury investigation into the past and present activities of Heffernan Enterprises.”
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Doylestown Intelligencer
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Jan 17, 1985
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