Crime and Courts
Published on May 28, 2013 - Page 3
SOUTH CENTRE TWP. — The following people pleaded guilty to failing to send children in their care to school, according to Central Columbia school...
Published on May 28, 2013 - Page 3
CATAWISSA — A drunken driver cruising around Catawissa at 5 mph told police she had just dropped a friend off at his house but couldn’t remember the...
Published on May 28, 2013 - Page 6
CATAWISSA TWP. — A drunken Catawissa man who drove to the Bloomsburg Weis Market to get more alcohol was nabbed on his way out of town, charges say...
Published on May 27, 2013 - Page 1
MIFFLINVILLE — A Berwick man allegedly told his girlfriend he was conducting a sting operation to convince her to help him steal more than $1,000...
Published on May 27, 2013 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG — A drunken disc jockey refused to stop for a police cruiser with flashing lights until he got to West Fourth Street, parked the car and...
Published on May 26, 2013 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG — Two years ago, a 12-year-old girl was playing on the tire swing at Kidsburg when an S-hook came loose and “hooked her like a fish,”...
Published on May 26, 2013 - Page 1
CATAWISSA TWP. — A New Jersey woman had a blood-alcohol level of.486 percent, high enough to kill, but insisted she hadn’t been drinking when police...
Published on May 26, 2013 - Page 3
BELLEFONTE (AP) —Two women have pleaded guilty in the assault of a Penn State freshman during a hazing ritual. The Centre Daily Times reports Bianca...
Published on May 25, 2013 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG — A man busted twice with the makings of a meth lab in houses in Berwick pleaded guilty Friday to his latest arrest for possessing...
Published on May 25, 2013 - Page 8
MONTOUR TWP. — Thieves busted through a locked driveway gate and pilfered several tools and home improvement items from 37 Mainville Drive sometime...
Published on May 25, 2013 - Page 8
COOPER TWP. — A 28-foot camper, worth $13,000, was stolen from Midway Lanes here sometime this past week, police say. The Keystone Summerland pull-...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 1
HETLERVILLE — Children and Youth caseworkers took custody of an infant and two toddlers Thursday after a meth lab was discovered in a trailer where...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 1
SCOTT TWP. — A Catawissa man used bolt cutters in an attempt to pry open the doors of the Columbia Valley Moose Lodge early Thursday, police say....
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 1
SOUTH CENTRE TWP. —The woman Terry Zeares hired to tend his 92-year-old mother instead tried to steal her belongings, then locked him out of the...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG — A judge refused to budge off his 10-day jail sentence for Lauren McGinley, one of two former Bloomsburg University field hockey players...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 1
MOUNT CARMEL — Almost all of the Danville High seniors cited at a post-prom party for drinking want to fight their citations in court. Of the 17...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 3
BERWICK — A Berwick man who repeatedly called 9-1-1 was hallucinating, authorities say. Louis Costello, 34, of 122 Cemetery St. heard voices and...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG — A warrant was issued Thursday for a second time against a Wilburton man after he failed to appear for trial on a DUI arrest by a...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 4
BERWICK — A man accused of hiding with methamphetamine in a crawl space is headed to county court. Joshua Kressler, 30, agreed to forego his...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 4
BERWICK — A man accused of attacking his ex-girlfriend’s brother at her home saw the charges dropped Thursday after none of his alleged victims...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 4
BLOOMSBURG — A Berwick man was drunk and impaired on several medications when he drove around a police cruiser trying to block traffic during Block...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 4
BLOOMSBURG — A Bloomsburg University student was drunk when he climbed onto the ceiling of a security office at the former Hotel Magee and fell...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 8
BLOOMSBURG — A Chester County man called his DUI arrest “a miscarriage of justice” and swore in court Wednesday how he would never have been drunk at...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 8
BERWICK — An Orangeville man tried to steal $33 of steaks by stuffing them down his pants. Adam Leroy Hartman, 105 Pine St., Orangeville, stole the...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 8
BLOOMSBURG — A man caught with a baggie of cocaine in his pocket is expected to plead guilty to having drug paraphernalia. Chad A. Young, 26, of...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 10
BERWICK — A sex offender from New Jersey was apprehended near here Thursday, the U.S. Marshals Service says. Pablo Williams, 36, was convicted of...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 11
BLOOMSBURG — A man was assaulted and a pickup’s window was busted with a baseball bat during a nighttime confrontation between two groups of feuding...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 13
Drunkenness plea entered BERWICK — A Nescopeck man was so drunk he fell down on the sidewalk, then threatened an officer when confronted, police say...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 14
ALLENTOWN — A woman was convicted Thursday of stabbing her fiancé, a former Berwick man, to death on their wedding day. A jury here found Na Cola...
Published on May 23, 2013 - Page 1
BEAVER TWP. — Arsonists ransacked Joe Cominsky’s camper and torched it, along with the hunting cabin he and his brother built here, police say....