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One of four missing young men is among ‘multiple’ bodies in 12.5ft-deep grave at multi-million dollar farm – ‘drug-dealing scion of real estate empire, Cosmo DiNardo, who has bragged about killing people in the past, arrested again

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0a0101&semi;"><strong>One of four missing young men is among &&num;8216&semi;multiple&&num;8217&semi; bodies in 12&period;5ft-deep grave at suspect&&num;8217&semi;s family property in Salisbury&comma; PA <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0a0101&semi;"><strong>Investigators identified remains belonging to Dean A&period; Finocchiaro&comma; 19  <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0a0101&semi;"><strong>Finocchiaro and three other young men went missing in Pennsylvania last week <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0a0101&semi;"><strong>Police were led to the 90 acre farmland in their search for the missing men &&num;8211&semi; Mark Sturgis&comma; 22&comma; Tom Meo&comma; 21&comma; Finocchiaio&comma; and Jimi Tar Patrick&comma; 19<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0a0101&semi;"><strong>The person of interest&comma; Cosmo DiNardo&comma; 20&comma; is the heir to a vast real estate empire was described as a &&num;8216&semi;drug-dealing schizophrenic who has bragged about killing people in the past&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0a0101&semi;"><strong>Police have arrested DiNardo for trying to sell a 1996 Nissan Maxima on July 9  belonging to Meo <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0a0101&semi;"><strong>The car was recovered on the DiNardo property<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0a0101&semi;"><strong>Another victim&&num;8217&semi;s cell phone was tracked to the DiNardo estate<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0a0101&semi;">Cosmo DiNardo will have to post the &dollar;5million bail in full to be released from jail after posting 10 percent of his &dollar;1million bail Wednesday for unrelated gun charges<&sol;span> <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img-group floatRHS">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;211030" style&equals;"width&colon; 316px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignleft"><img aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-211030" class&equals;" size-full wp-image-211030 alignleft" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;cosmo-dinardo-31&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Cosmo DiNardo 3&period;jpg" width&equals;"306" height&equals;"381" &sol;><p id&equals;"caption-attachment-211030" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Alleged serial killer&comma; Cosmo DiNardo<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption"> Authorities in Pennsylvania have found human remains of multiple bodies in a 12-and-a-half foot common grave on a sprawling tract of farmland&comma; it was announced late Wednesday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The search of the Solebury&comma; Pennsylvania&comma; farm&comma; belonging to the family of 20-year-old Cosmo DiNardo &rsqb;<strong>left<&sol;strong>&rsqb;&comma; was prompted after four young men went missing in a span of three days last week&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The four men were identified as Dean A&period; Finocchiaro&comma; 19&comma; of Middletown&comma; Pennsylvania&comma; Jimi Tar Patrick&comma; 19&comma; Mark Sturgis&comma; 22&comma; and Tom Meo&comma; 21&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;DiNardo was arrested on Wednesday on charges of trying to sell one of the men&&num;8217&semi;s vehicles&comma; which was also found in Solebury&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He is the sole person of interest in the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;11&sol;20-year-old-cosmo-dinardo-arrested-on-firearms-charge-and-held-on-1m-bond-after-police-search-his-home-in-hunt-for-four-young-men-who-all-vanished-from-neighboring-pennsylvania-towns-in-just-a-week&sol;">disappearance of the four young men&period;<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;The families of the missing quartet have been at the scene in the hope of learning anything about their loved ones&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Patrick was first to disappear on Wednesday&period; The other three &&num;8211&semi; who are all friends &&num;8211&semi; vanished on Friday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Authorities are in the process of identifying further remains&comma; which were found using cadaver dogs deployed in the search of the property belonging to DiNardo&&num;8217&semi;s family&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to a friend of Meo&comma; DiNardo sold guns and marijuana and in the past has bragged about having someone killed over a debt&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;I can tell you on multiple different occasions&comma; on multiple different accounts&comma; from multiple different people&comma; including myself – Cosmo has spoken about weird things like killing people and having people killed&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Eric Beitz&comma; 20&comma; of Bensalem&comma; told <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;philly&period;com&sol;philly&sol;news&sol;pennsylvania&sol;friend-of-missing-bucks-man-dinardo-spoke-of-having-people-killed-20170712&period;html&quest;mobi&equals;true" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Philly&period;com<&sol;a>&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Beitz said he believed DiNardo was the last person to see his friend alive&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Everybody you talk to about this guy&comma; you hear he’s mentally unstable&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-210946" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;cosmo-dinardo-was-smiling-at-the-news-chopper&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Cosmo DiNardo was smiling at the news chopper&period;jpg" width&equals;"672" height&equals;"375" &sol;><strong>Cosmo DiNardo was smiling at the news chopper as he was led into police custody for attempting to sell one of the missing men&&num;8217&semi;s car after he disappeared&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;11&sol;20-year-old-cosmo-dinardo-arrested-on-firearms-charge-and-held-on-1m-bond-after-police-search-his-home-in-hunt-for-four-young-men-who-all-vanished-from-neighboring-pennsylvania-towns-in-just-a-week&sol;" rel&equals;"bookmark">20-year-old Cosmo DiNardo arrested on firearms charge and held on &dollar;1m bond after police search his home in hunt for four young men who all vanished from neighboring Pennsylvania towns in just a week<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-210953" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;pa-police-arrest-cosmo-dinardo-6&period;png" alt&equals;"Pa police arrest Cosmo DiNardo 6&period;png" width&equals;"674" height&equals;"357" &sol;>Cosmo DiNardo&comma; 20&comma; who the court heard has been diagnosed with schizophrenia&comma; was told he will have to come up with &dollar;5 million cash if he is to regain his freedom after his arrest on Wednesday<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;211034" style&equals;"width&colon; 242px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignright"><img aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-211034" class&equals;" wp-image-211034 alignright" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;dean-finocchiaro-11&period;png" alt&equals;"Dean Finocchiaro 1" width&equals;"232" height&equals;"339" &sol;><p id&equals;"caption-attachment-211034" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><strong>The remains of one of four missing men have been identified as those of 19-year-old Dean A&period; Finocchiaro <&sol;strong><&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">Giving an insight to how they were  led to finding the human remains on the farm&comma; Pennsylvania authorities  gave the timeline of events starting with <span class&equals;"mol-style-bold">July 5 when<&sol;span> Jimi Tar Patrick&comma; 19&comma; is seen for the last time&period; He appears to be the first of the men to go missing&period; On <span class&equals;"mol-style-bold">July 7 three more men &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;span> Dean Finocchiaro&comma; 19&comma; Mark Sturgis&comma; 22&comma; and Tom Meo&comma; 21&comma; are all seen for the last time&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<span class&equals;"mol-style-bold">By July 9&comma; a<&sol;span>ll four men had been reported missing&comma; and a search warrant is executed at a home in Solebury Township&comma; where investigators find Meo&&num;8217&semi;s 1996 silver Altima sedan in a shed on the property&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The next day&comma; <span class&equals;"mol-style-bold">July 10&comma; police<&sol;span> search a Solebury Township farm owned by Antonio and Sandra DiNardo&period; Their son&comma; 20-year-old Cosmo DiNardo is taken into custody on firearms charges that appeared to be unrelated to the missing persons case&period; However&comma; he was released on bail a day later after posting the &dollar;1million bail&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Police tracked one man&&num;8217&semi;s cell phone signal to the DiNardo property and one man&&num;8217&semi;s father said one of their cars had also been found there&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<span class&equals;"mol-style-bold">On Wednesday&comma; July 12&comma; investigators found <&sol;span>human remains of multiple bodies on the farm&period; The remains of Finocchiaro are identified&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;DiNardo ws arrested for a second time and charged with trying to sell a vehicle belonging to one of the missing men&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-210948" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;cosmo-dinardo-waiting-to-be-transported-by-police-chopper-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Cosmo DiNardo waiting to be transported by police chopper 2&period;jpg" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"356" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Officers take Cosmo DiNardo&&num;8217&semi;s into custody after discovering several bodies on family &dollar;5 million farm on Wednesday&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-210951" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;alleged-killer-cosmo-dinardo-in-custody-5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Alleged killer Cosmo DiNardo in custody 5&period;jpg" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"374" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Cold blooded schizophrenic&colon; According to a friend of Tom Meo&comma; one of the three men who are still missing&comma; The suspect sold guns and marijuana &period; In the past he&&num;8217&semi;d bragged about having someone killed over a debt<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-210955" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;matthew-weintraub-bucks-county-da-addressing-news-conference-at-midnight-on-thursday&period;png" alt&equals;"Matthew Weintraub&comma; Bucks County DA addressing news conference at midnight on Thursday&period;png" width&equals;"929" height&equals;"599" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">The announcement that authorities found human remains was made by Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub &lbrack;center&rsqb;&comma; during a news conference at midnight on Thursday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A fairly large crowd of  people gathered in New Hope&comma; Pennsylvania&comma; just after midnight on Thursday to listen to District Attorney Matthew Weintraub address a news conference at midnight on Thursday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Weintraub announced that authorities found human remains was made by Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub&period;  The Bucks County DA told reporters and members of the community during a midnight news conference that authorities cannot say for certain how many bodies they discovered&comma; adding that The district attorney said that authorities are beginning to treat this case as a homicide&comma; adding that the investigation is ongoing<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-210957" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;crowd-gathered-in-new-hope-pa-at-midnight-thusday-for-weintraubs-press-conference&period;png" alt&equals;"Crowd gathered in New Hope&comma; Pa&comma; at midnight Thusday for Weintraub's press conference&period;png" width&equals;"837" height&equals;"540" &sol;><strong>Media and members of the community gathered in New Hope&comma; Pa&comma; just after midnight on Thursday to listen to DA Mathew Weintraub address the press on the case  <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-210975" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;stunned-weintraub-told-reporters-and-members-of-the-community-listen-to-da-weintraub-at-thursdays-press-conference&period;png" alt&equals;"Stunned Weintraub told reporters and members of the community listen to DA Weintraub&comma; at Thursday's press conference&period;png" width&equals;"792" height&equals;"512" &sol;><strong>Stunned attendees at listen with rapt attention as the DA told reporters and members of the community during a midnight news conference that authorities cannot say for certain how many bodies they discovered<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<p>DiNardo and Patrick both attended Holy Ghost Preparatory School in Bensalem&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Patrick&comma; who had just completed his freshman year at Loyola University in Baltimore&comma; and DiNardo were members of a public Facebook group for buying and selling sneakers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A Flickr account believed to belong to DiNardo shows 187 photos of shoes&comma; including Nikes and Air Jordans&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Many of the pairs were photographed with a sign with his name and the date written on it&period; Some images from 2014 show bullets set up next to the shoes&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;DiNardo was sent off to jail on Wednesday for the second time since the four men vanished&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He was previously arrested on Monday on outstanding firearms charges but was later released on bail&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The announcement that authorities found human remains was made by Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Weintraub told reporters during a midnight news conference that authorities cannot say for certain how many bodies they discovered&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The district attorney said that authorities are beginning to treat this case as a homicide&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;This painstaking process will go on&comma; we’re not done yet&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said&period; &&num;8216&semi;This is a homicide&comma; no question about it&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;We’re going to bring each and every one of these lost boys home to their families&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The discovery of the remains represents a big break in the case for authorities who have conducted an exhausting search on the sprawling piece of property in Solebury Township belonging to DiNardo&comma; an heir to a massive Pennsylvania real estate fortune&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;DiNardo&comma; who the court heard has been diagnosed with schizophrenia&comma; was told he will have to come up with &dollar;5million cash if he is to regain his freedom after his arrest on Wednesday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It has been learned that DiNardo is the son of Antonio and Sandra DiNardo&comma; a couple that purchased the massive 90 acres of farmland where police are searching for four missing men&comma; according to <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nbcphiladelphia&period;com&sol;news&sol;local&sol;Cosmo-DiNardo-at-Center-of-Missing-Men-Mystery-is-Scion-to-Family-With-Sizable-Real-Estate-Holdings-434155333&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">NBC 10<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;kenny-bobby-said-his-nephew-sturgis1&period;jpg&quest;w&equals;612" alt&equals;"Kenny Bobby said his nephew&comma; Sturgis&comma;1" width&equals;"649" height&equals;"383" &sol;><strong> Sturgis&&num;8217&semi;s abandoned Nissan Altima &lpar;photo&rpar; was found in a shopping complex five miles from the farm&period; Another vehicle connected to the missing men&comma; a Nissan Maxima &lpar;not pictured&rpar; belonging to Tom Meo was reportedly found parked in a garage on the DiNardo property <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-211010" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;the-flickr-account-belonging-to-cosmo-dinardo-shows-a-pair-of-nike-air-jordan-shoes-with-two-bullets-and-a-sign-next-to-it&period;jpg" alt&equals;"The Flickr account belonging to Cosmo DiNardo shows a pair of Nike Air Jordan shoes with two bullets and a sign next to it&period;jpg" width&equals;"646" height&equals;"646" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>The Flickr account belonging to Cosmo DiNardo shows a pair of Nike Air Jordan shoes with two bullets and a sign next to it&period; DiNardo and one of the missing young men&comma; Jimi Tar Patrick&comma; belonged to a Facebook group where members bought and sold Nike shoes<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-211014" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;dinardo-was-first-taken-into-custody-monady-on-gun-charges-but-was-later-released-after-his-parents-posted-bail&period;png" alt&equals;"DiNardo was first taken into custody Monady on gun charges but was later released after his parents posted bail&period;png" width&equals;"743" height&equals;"385" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong>DiNardo was arrested earlier this week for &&num;8216&semi;unrelated gun charges&&num;8217&semi; he was released after his parents posted 10 percent of his &dollar;1 million bail <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">The family began to amass its vast commercial and residential real estate holdings thanks to Cosmo DiNardo&&num;8217&semi;s eponymous late grandfather&comma; who also began to buy up real estate in the 1970s&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Among the family holdings are properties in Philadelphia&comma; including a multi-unit apartment building and another building leased to a behavioral non-profit organization&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He also purchased the home in Bensalem where his grandson was twice arrested this week&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Police discover remains of missing man on Pennsylvania farm&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In September 2005&comma; the DiNardo couple bought 68 acres of farmland in Bucks County&comma; Pennsylvania for &dollar;5&period;4million&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Less than a year later&comma; they bought a smaller tract of farmland on an adjacent property&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In December 2008&comma; they purchased two more acres of adjacent property to form the large farming complex where the bodies were discovered&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The scope of the search was so extensive &&num;8211&semi; backhoes and other earth-moving equipment have been brought in &&num;8211&semi; that the local district attorney said this was the largest search in recent history&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-211050" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;police-used-diggers-and-metal-detectors-to-search-a-90-acre-farm-in-solebury-pennsylvania-on-wednesday-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Police used diggers and metal detectors to search a 90-acre farm in Solebury&comma; Pennsylvania&comma; on Wednesday 1" width&equals;"874" height&equals;"451" &sol;><strong>Police used diggers and metal detectors to search a 90-acre farm in Solebury&comma; Pennsylvania&comma; on Wednesday in the hunt for four young men who have been missing since last week<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"moduleFull mol-video"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-211020" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;police-spent-wednesday-searching-the-farmland-ofc2a0cosmo-dinardos-parents-farmland-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Police spent Wednesday searching the farmland of Cosmo DiNardo's parents' farmland&period; 1&period;png" width&equals;"785" height&equals;"497" &sol;><strong>Police spent Wednesday searching the farmland of Cosmo DiNardo&&num;8217&semi;s parents&&num;8217&semi; farmland in search of the missing men<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said evidence has been found at the property near the main house and barn<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">This home is used as the main family residence from where they control their business and real estate holdings&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The elder Cosmo DiNardo also purchased commercial properties in Montgomery and Bucks Counties&comma; including a strip of storefronts initially purchased for &dollar;67&comma;500 in 1979 and sold 25 years later for &dollar;425&comma;000&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Eventually&comma; the elder Cosmo DiNardo began to involve his son&comma; Antonio&comma; in the family business&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The father and son jointly purchased a Philadelphia home for &dollar;50&comma;000 in early 1989 and flipped it two years later for &dollar;210&comma;000&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In the late 1990s and 2000s&comma; Antonio DiNardo purchased four more properties&comma; two in Philadelphia and two in Bensalem&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;ariel-view-of-the-dinardo-farm-property-2&period;png&quest;w&equals;571" alt&equals;"Ariel view of the DiNardo farm property 2&period;png" width&equals;"883" height&equals;"569" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Ariel view of the vast  90-acre DiNardo farm property in Solebury&comma; Pennsylvania which police had to search on Wednesday in the hunt for four young men who have been missing since last week<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-211102" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;police-k9-units-sear-dinardo-farm-wednesday&period;png" alt&equals;"Police K9 units sear DiNardo farm&comma; Wednesday&period;png" width&equals;"735" height&equals;"481" &sol;><strong>Investigators  used cadaver dogs to search the DiNardo farmland on Wednesday <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>But magisterial district judge Maggie Snow&comma; sitting in chambers in Doylestown&comma; Pennsylvania&comma; agreed with the higher level&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">She set a new hearing for DiNardo for July 31&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;DiNardo allegedly tried to sell a champagne-colored 1996 Nissan Maxima belonging to Tom Meo &&num;8211&semi; who has been missing since Friday &&num;8211&semi; for &dollar;500&period; The car was found on his parents&&num;8217&semi; &dollar;5million property&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Inside cops found Meo&&num;8217&semi;s diabetic kit&comma; which his parents say he never leaves behind&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;DiNardo&comma; wearing a gray tank top appeared on video from the police station in his hometown of Bensalem&comma; Pennsylvania&comma; where he was rearrested on Wednesday&comma; less than a day after being released from jail&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On Tuesday DiNardo&&num;8217&semi;s wealthy parents posted a &dollar;100&comma;000 cashier&&num;8217&semi;s check &&num;8211&semi; 10 percent of the bail amount he was being held on for an unrelated firearms charge -the district attorney leading the case told reporters Wednesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-211059" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;police-used-diggers-and-metal-detectors-to-search-a-90-acre-farm-in-solebury-pennsylvania-on-wednesday-in-the-hunt-for-four-young-men-who-have-been-missing-since-last-week-2&period;png" alt&equals;"Police used diggers and metal detectors to search a 90-acre farm in Solebury&comma; Pennsylvania&comma; on Wednesday in the hunt for four young men who have been missing since last week 2&period;png" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"513" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">District attorney Matthew Weintraub told reporters Wednesday told reporters outside of the farm he feared the men were victims of foul play&colon; &&num;8216&semi;We are going to keep digging and searching that property until we are satisfied they are not there&&num;8217&semi;&comma; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&&num;8216&semi;This investigation is still wide open we are going to go where it leads us&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Weintraub said&period;  &&num;8216&semi;We don&&num;8217&semi;t pick a person and then try to build a case around that person&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s not fair to anyone&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Authorities in Bucks County&comma; Pennsylvania argued that the younger Cosmo DiNardo is a flight risk and a danger to the community as the reasons for the high bail&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Cops are continuing to search property belonging to DiNardo&&num;8217&semi;s parents in Solebury Township&comma; Pennsylvania&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;DiNardo has not been charged in connection with the men&&num;8217&semi;s disappearance&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Instead he was charged with car theft&comma; for allegedly trying to sell a vehicle belonging to one of the missing men&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;His defense team said the DA&&num;8217&semi;s office was upset he had made bail and had only come up with the new charge now to get him back in jail&period;<span class&equals;"mol-style-bold"><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span>&&num;8216&semi;As of this moment he remains a person of interest&period; But if others arise and we can name them&comma; we will&comma; said Weintraub at a morning press conference&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img-group artSplitter">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"splitRight">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class&equals;"" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;cosmo-dinardo-1&period;png&quest;w&equals;620" alt&equals;"Cosmo DiNardo 1" width&equals;"313" height&equals;"381" &sol;><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-210943" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;cosmo-dinardo-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Cosmo DiNardo 3&period;jpg" width&equals;"306" height&equals;"381" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Cosmo DiNardo&comma; was taken in to custody on Sunday on gun charges&comma; but was released after posting 10 percent of his &dollar;1 million bond&period; He will now have to post the full amount&comma; of a new bond set at &dollar;5 million&comma;  after his Wednesday arrest&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>Several law enforcement agencies including the FBI and local police are searching the huge 90-acre spot&period; The DiNardo family is listed on two different addresses at the site&comma; circled below&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">Weintraub would not answer a question about whether he believes DiNardo&comma; with all his problems&comma; could have &&num;8216&semi;done this all by himself&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t even know what the &&num;8216&semi;this&&num;8217&semi; is that we are talking about&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he replied&period; &&num;8216&semi;We are going to proceed very&comma; very methodically&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Weintraub spoke in rural Solebury Township&comma; an hour northwest of Philadelphia close to the New Jersey border&comma; as helicopters whirred overhead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-211073" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;police-tracked-one-mans-cell-phone-signal-to-the-dinardo-property-and-one-mans-father-said-one-of-their-cars-had-also-been-found-therec2a0&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Police tracked one man's cell phone signal to the DiNardo property and one man's father said one of their cars had also been found there &period;jpg" width&equals;"754" height&equals;"466" &sol;><strong>Police tracked one man&&num;8217&semi;s cell phone signal to the DiNardo property and one man&&num;8217&semi;s father said one of their cars had also been found there <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>Half a mile from where he was speaking&comma; scores of officers were involved in a detailed search on property owned by DiNardo&&num;8217&semi;s parents for any sign of the four men who disappeared from the area last week&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&&num;8216&semi;We are going to keep digging and searching that property until we are satisfied they are not there&comma;&&num;8217&semi; said Weintraub&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;This is just really&comma; really rough on everybody involved because of the heat&comma; the magnitude&comma; the scope and the stakes are incredibly high &&num;8211&semi; life and death&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"splitRight">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class&equals;"" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;c2a0jimi-patrick-left-and-c2a0dean-finocchiaro-rightc2a0&period;png&quest;w&equals;674&amp&semi;h&equals;494" alt&equals;" Jimi Patrick &lpar;left&rpar; and  Dean Finocchiaro &lbrack;right&rsqb; &period;png" width&equals;"798" height&equals;"584" &sol;><strong>Jimi Patrick &lbrack;left&rsqb; was the first to go missing and was last seen at 6pm on Wednesday&period; Finocchiaro&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb; vanished on Friday<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;tom-meo-left-andc2a0mark-sturgis&period;png&quest;w&equals;677&amp&semi;h&equals;395" alt&equals;"Tom Meo &lpar;left&rpar; and Mark Sturgis&period;png" width&equals;"760" height&equals;"443" &sol;><strong>Tom Meo &lbrack;left&rsqb; and Mark Sturgis &lbrack;right&rsqb; vanished at the same time&period; Both worked for Sturgis&&num;8217&semi; father&&num;8217&semi;s construction business and are friends <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-208506" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;police-report-that-sturgis-and-meo-were-friends&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Police report that Sturgis and Meo were friends" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"603" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>The two freinds&comma; Sturgis and Meo&comma; were planning to meet up on the night of July 7&comma; when they both vanished <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-211092" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;deanc2a0finocchiaio-with-his-parents&period;jpg" alt&equals;" Dean Finocchiaio with his parents&period;jpg" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"571" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Sturgis and Meo are both friends with Dean Finocchiaio &lbrack;photo&comma; with his parents&rsqb; <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&&num;8216&semi;We ask for your patience and we ask for your tips&period; We continue to receive tips hourly and some of them are bearing fruit&comma; so please keep them coming&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On Monday&comma; police arrested DiNardo at his home in Bensalem&comma; Pennsylvania&comma; on a four-month-old gun charge&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a class&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;philly&period;com&sol;philly&sol;news&sol;pennsylvania&sol;searchers-resume-sifting-searching-on-bucks-farm-for-4-missing-men-20170712&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Philly&period;com<&sol;a> reported that Weintraub&&num;8217&semi;s office sent a letter to police in Bensalem on June 21 reauthorizing the February charge against him&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It had been dismissed in May by a magisterial district judge&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;But he was not apprehended until after the four men had gone missing&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In February&comma; DiNardo had bought a gun and ammunition despite having a history of mental illness which included a voluntary stint in hospital&comma; court documents say&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Some locals had reported hearing gunshots on the DiNardo property over the weekend&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"clear"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-211145" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;fbi-were-called-in&period;png" alt&equals;"FBI were called in&period;png" width&equals;"628" height&equals;"783" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>The FBI was called in to help with the search&comma; due to their expertise in recovery operations underway at a farm believed to be linked to the disappearances&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"clear">One of the victims&comma; Jimi Patrick&comma; who is from Newtown Township&comma; was last seen at 6 pm on Wednesday&period; He was reported missing the following day after failing to show up for work&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On Friday&comma; Tom Meo&comma; Dean Finocchiaro and Mark Sturgis from the neighboring towns of Plumstead&comma; Middletown and Pennsburg&comma; also vanished&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sturgis and Meo work together for Sturgis&&num;8217&semi;s father&&num;8217&semi;s construction business&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On Friday night&comma; Sturgis told his father he was going to meet up with his friend but that they would both be fit for work in the morning&period; Neither showed up&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Finocchiaro&comma; was last seen in Middletown Township at 6&period;30pm on Friday night&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;bucks-county-district-attorney-matthew-weintraub-holds-up-photos-of-four-men-who-2&period;png&quest;w&equals;664&amp&semi;h&equals;432" alt&equals;"Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub holds up photos of four men who 2&period;png" &sol;><strong>Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said the agencies were pursuing &&num;8216&semi;incredibly hot leads&&num;8217&semi; on the property&comma; early Monday<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>On Saturday&comma; police tracked a signal from Finocchiaro&&num;8217&semi;s phone to Solebury Township and to the DiNardo farm&period;Once on the property&comma; they found Meo&&num;8217&semi;s champagne-colored Nissan<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Maxima parked in a garage&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;They also discovered Sturgis&&num;8217&semi;s Nissan Altima at Peddler&&num;8217&semi;s Village in Lahaska&comma; five miles from the DiNardo property&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On Sunday&comma; they issued a search warrant for the entire farm and Cosmo DiNardo was arrested the following day&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Meo&comma; Sturgis and Finocchiaio are all friends&period; Patrick&comma; who seemingly has no other connection to the missing men&comma; is Facebook friends with DiNardo&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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