13 things about Lower Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania’s Dalton Janiczek

Dalton Lee Janiczek is an alumnus of La Salle College High School in Wyndmoor, Springfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a Catholic all-male college preparatory school established in 1858.

BIOGRAPHY

Janiczek is an American athlete from Lower Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County. He is Lee J. Janiczek Jr. and Anne Janiczek-Nees‘s son.

Lee Jr. played lacrosse at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania and Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania before becoming a lawyer. Anne was an alumna of Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania and Temple Law School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dalton was a member of the rowing team of La Salle College High School for four years. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. His father is married to Sara Cardi Janiczek and his mother was married to Louis A. Nees IV.
2. His paternal grandparents are Dr. Lee J. Janiczek Sr. and Carole A. Varano Janiczek.
3. His maternal grandparents are Bernard E. O’Brien and Lina M. O’Brien-West.
4. When he was a La Salle College High School senior, he was the captain of the school’s rowing team.
5. He grew up in a $1.4 million house in Ambler, Pennsylvania.
6. He has two sisters namely Carina Janiczek and Claire Janiczek.
7. He was born in 2004.
8. In 2014, his mother passed away.
9. In 2021, he won the Best Junior Erg award while attending La Salle College High School.
10. In 2022, he entered Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, USA.
11. From 2022 to 2023, he was a member of the men’s rowing team of Loyola Marymount University.
12. From 2023 to 2025, he had at least 11 criminal charges..
13. In 2025, he was arrested in Pennsylvania.

TIMELINE

Dalton is 6’2″ tall. He won multiple awards for his sport during his time in La Salle College High School. 

2010s

• On February 28, 2014, his mother died at Abington Hospital in Abington, Pennsylvania. She was 45.

2020s

• On July 13, 2020, his grandmother Carole died at age 76.
• His grandfather Lee Sr. turned 82 on March 29, 2023 and died in Media, Pennsylvania on January 31, 2024.
• On October 24, 2025, he allegedly fled officers in Whitpain Township, Montgomery County when they tried to pull him over for a routine traffic infraction. He steered his sport utility vehicle over the center median on Skippack Pike in Skippack, Skippack Township, Montgomery County and 40 minutes later, his vehicle was spotted at a Doubletree Guest Suites Hotel in Plymouth Township, Montgomery County. As officers in a patrol car descended on him, he threw his SUV into reverse, repeatedly struck the patrol car and aimed his SUV at one of the officers. He was arrested and charged with attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault and fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer.
• On October 25, 2025, he was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Thomas P. Murt, who denied bail.
• On November 4, 2025, he will appear in court for a preliminary hearing.