Allentown man tells police he set massive fire after trying to stab woman
Court documents allege Santos Mota-Ramirez admitted setting fire to a home in Allentown on Thursday after trying to kill a woman inside.
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Joe Brandt has been a digital content producer for CBS News Philadelphia since 2022. He is a Temple University graduate and was born and raised in Pitman, NJ.
At Temple, Joe was editor-in-chief of The Temple News and a Dow Jones News Fund editing intern at The New York Times. He also reported for the Philadelphia Daily News in 2015 before its merger with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
After graduation, he covered crime and courts in South Jersey for NJ.com before shifting to TV/digital, writing for NBC10 Philadelphia and LX.com.
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Court documents allege Santos Mota-Ramirez admitted setting fire to a home in Allentown on Thursday after trying to kill a woman inside.
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