Crime and Courts

Published on January 1, 2024 - Page 3
Press Enterprise staff report CATAWISSA -- A man is facing drug charges and an assault charge in two incidents here in two weeks. On Nov. 29,...
Published on January 1, 2024 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- Two men received jail sentences on DUI arrests in Columbia County court, including one found driving while impaired by methamphetamine...
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Press Enterprise Staff Report WILKES-BARRE -- A judge sentenced a Hunlock Township man who made sexual advances online toward a person he thought was...
Published on January 1, 2024 - Page 5
Press Enterprise staff report MILLVILLE -- A Bloomsburg man is suspected of driving while drug-impaired when he struck a tree with his car along...
Published on December 31, 2023 - Page 1
Press Enterprise staff report BRIAR CREEK -- The owner of a business here was shocked to learn three checks for more than $13,000, allegedly from his...
Published on December 31, 2023 - Page 1
Press Enterprise staff report MAHONING TWP. -- A Danville woman got up from a booth at Sheetz here, urinated on the floor and then sat back down,...
Published on December 31, 2023 - Page 3
Press Enterprise staff report CATAWISSA -- A man is facing drug charges and an assault charge in two incidents here in two weeks. On Nov. 29,...
Published on December 31, 2023 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- Two men received jail sentences on DUI arrests in Columbia County court, including one found driving while impaired by methamphetamine...
Published on December 31, 2023 - Page 4
Press Enterprise Staff Report WILKES-BARRE -- A judge sentenced a Hunlock Township man who made sexual advances online toward a person he thought was...
Published on December 31, 2023 - Page 5
Press Enterprise staff report MILLVILLE -- A Bloomsburg man is suspected of driving while drug-impaired when he struck a tree with his car along...
Published on December 30, 2023 - Page 1
ALMEDIA -- When police searched an Old Berwick Road home in which a son allegedly killed his mother Wednesday, they found an assortment of bloody...
Published on December 30, 2023 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A Virginia teenager who spent two months in jail after his arrest last spring in Catawissa for having drugs and two guns in a car was...
Published on December 30, 2023 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A Berwick man facing sentencing Wednesday on three DUI arrests while highly intoxicated each time was barred by a judge from driving...
Published on December 30, 2023 - Page 3
Woman allegedly sold fentanyl BERWICK -- A young woman allegedly was selling fentanyl in the Borough of Berwick, until she was caught by the help of...
Published on December 30, 2023 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- Two people charged in separate arrests will have a chance to clear their records after being placed in Columbia County's ARD probation...
Published on December 30, 2023 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- A Hemlock Township man involved in a hit-run accident along Rupert Drive in 2020 was fined a total of $375 plus court costs after...
Published on December 30, 2023 - Page 8
BLOOMSBURG -- A Mount Carmel man caught shoplifting at Walmart near Buckhorn in November 2020 was sentenced to probation in Columbia County court...
Published on December 29, 2023 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A Mahoning Township man was sentenced for attempting to sell four antique, collectible toy bears reported stolen from a neighbor's home...
Published on December 29, 2023 - Page 1
VALLEY TWP. -- A New Jersey man who sat in his pickup at a gas pump here for more than an hour Nov. 6 was under the influence of cocaine and fentanyl...
Published on December 29, 2023 - Page 5
BLOOMSBURG -- The Columbia County Coroner's Office released the findings of an autopsy performed on a woman killed Wednesday at her home on Old...
Published on December 29, 2023 - Page 5
BLOOMSBURG -- A Shamokin man was jailed immediately after sentencing here Wednesday for driving while impaired by marijuana. Derrick Dorsey, 35, was...
Published on December 28, 2023 - Page 1
ALMEDIA -- A man violently stabbed his mother to death at their Old Berwick Road home Wednesday, police say. James Cosper, 60, used multiple knives...
Published on December 28, 2023 - Page 1
BERWICK -- A 54-year-old Berwick man on a scooter led police on an early morning chase that ended in a crash, charges say. Michael Shane Bankes, 54,...
Published on December 28, 2023 - Page 3
A Nescopeck man is accused of DUI after an early morning crash sent him to the hospital with a head injury, police report. James Mowery Jr., 53, of...
Published on December 28, 2023 - Page 3
DANVILLE -- A couple from Milton who allegedly stabbed each other during a jealous argument on Dec. 17, are out on bail, but both have been cautioned...
Published on December 27, 2023 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A former employee who sued the town three years ago will be paid $125,000 in damages for "emotional distress," paperwork shows. Under...
Published on December 27, 2023 - Page 1
NESCOPECK -- A Nescopeck man faces assault charges after allegedly trying to run over his grandmother with an all-terrain vehicle here, according to...
Published on December 27, 2023 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A New Jersey man stopped by authorities at the Canadian border with about $2,000 worth of tools stolen from a Berwick towing company in...
Published on December 27, 2023 - Page 3
HUNLOCK CREEK -- Someone stole a food stamp card from a Hunlock Creek man. Randy Carey, 36, of 471 Prichards Road, called State Police on Nov. 20...
Published on December 27, 2023 - Page 4
DANVILLE -- Joshua Briggs, 19, a Montour County inmate, allegedly spit on Correctional Officer Robert Appleman on Nov. 23. Danville Police...