Mom arraigned in alleged meth fire case

DANVILLE — A Danville woman whose Chamber Street residence was destroyed Tuesday in a fire caused by an alleged meth lab explosion is now locked up on charges that she participated in the drug making with her boyfriend and a friend.

Nikki K. Doebler, 40, had at first denied taking part in making the methamphetamine.

But on Wednesday, she told Danville police that while she was trying to break her addiction to the drug, she had been involved in making it, arrest papers say,

PennDOT hopes to reopen Route 11 south of Danville by tonight

POINT TWP. — A rock slide that shut down Route 11 on Tuesday about a half-mile south of Bald Top Road should be cleared enough by tonight to open two northbound lanes and one southbound lane, a PennDOT spokeswoman said.

The road has been shut down since Tuesday due to a rock slide.

Currently, it's closed from just north of the Point Drive-In movie theater to just south of Danville at the Montour County line.

A detour is in place using Ridge Road, Route 147, Route 642 and Route 54.

Six displaced by Danville fire

DANVILLE — A two-alarm fire chased six people out of a double-home in the 300 block of Chamber Street near Weis Markets here shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday, including an older couple who had lived in one side of the home for nearly four decades.

Kenneth Millar, 78, a retired textile worker, and his wife, Judith, 69, huddled in blankets on a street corner with other family members as about 80 volunteer firemen from three counties descended on the  smoky blaze that quickly spread through the second story of 321 Chamber St. 

Remains found at fire site

BLOOMSBURG — A cadaver dog found evidence of human remains at a Fair Street fire site on Monday, officials said.

And the coroner later confirmed that the body of an adult male had been found.

Officials have not confirmed the identity of the person found.

After the fire, firefighters were trying to locate Fabio Adragna, who lived at 337 Fair St. with a roommate. The roommate has been accounted for, officials say.

Police crack down on alleged Salem stolen mail ring

SALEM TWP. — A group of residents from a trailer park off Stone Church Road here were stealing their neighbors’ mail and then using it to steal their identities, police say.

Local, state and federal officials swooped down Monday on Lot 67 on Second Lane of Pleasant View Mobile Home Park, off Stone Church Road, around 9:30 a.m.

They took Ernest and Theresa Stonebraker into custody, along with two other people who live at the trailer, officials said. The other two were released without charges.

Blaze levels duplex, spreads to student apartments

BLOOMSBURG — Flames quickly engulfed and leveled a double home in the 300 block of Fair Street near Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital early Sunday morning and spread to a college student apartment house next door. 

Technologist Court Kauffman was leaving work from the hospital around 1 a.m. when he noticed flames and smoke that appeared to originate at the rear of 335-337 Fair Street just after 1 a.m.

Kauffman said he at first thought he was seeing a backyard campfire. He soon discovered the double home was ablaze.  

Officials say homeowner destroyed house with blaze

FISHING CREEK TWP. — The owner of a flood-damaged home decided to demolish the structure Friday morning — by setting it on fire, officials say.

The blaze not only destroyed the house, it sizzled cable, fiber optic, and telephone wires hanging near the home, according to Orangeville Fire Chief Kevin Boyd.

Calls began pouring into the 9-1-1 center around 9:30 a.m. for what appeared to be a fully-involved house fire at 6 Harrison Road, Boyd said.

The property, located just off Winding Road, is visible from nearby Route 487.

SWAT team raids Berwick house

BERWICK — Berwick police and members of the Columbia-Montour SWAT team raided a home on Mulberry Street Thursday morning, shutting down part of the road and forcing residents of all three apartments out onto the street.

The reported drug raid at 811 N. Mulberry St. happened around 11:15 a.m., with police cruisers, the SWAT team’s armored vehicle, and firefighters blocking off traffic on Mulberry and West Ninth Street.

Residents in neighboring apartments who’d been ordered out of the building waited across the street at the Berwick Cemetery as police searched the home.

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