Ed Lewis (c) Time Manager
A State Police investigator is seen on the porch of 226 Boland Ave., in Hanover Township, an investigation into a shooting earlier this week.
Ed Lewis (c) Time Manager
A state police investigator is seen on the porch of 226 Boland Ave. in Hanover Township an investigation into a previous shooting this week.
Ed Lewis (c) Time Manager
HANOVER TWP. – State police recovered two envelopes of a 9mm projectile and an Array380 projectile from inside a Toyota Camry where Fernando Vásquez-Vittini discovered mendacity outdoors covered in blood after Sunday’s shooting, according to a warrant affidavit received via The Times Leader on Wednesday. .
The search warrant allowed criminal investigators from the state police to search for 226 Boland Avenue, where they said Scranton’s 25-year-old Vasquez-Vittini and José Carlos Matos, of unknown age and direction, were shot by The Toyota.
Hanover Township police discovered the Toyota parked on Saint Marys Road on South Main Street, where the Vasquez-Vittini mendacity on the sidewalk was covered in blood.
A witness told police that Toyota was blocking traffic with a man bleeding from the face, his blouse pulled up and acting “like a madman,” according to the warrant affidavit.
Vasquez-Vittini transported to Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, where he died.
An autopsy by medical examiner Dr. Gary Ross that Vasquez-Vittini had died from multiple gunshot wounds.
Matos found out through the police when he ran into the Lee Park Motors community at 309 Lee Park Ave. where he asked for help. Shot in the shoulder.
No fees have been established.
Witnesses described the shooter as a black guy wearing gray jeans and a red hat.
According to the affidavit:
Matos told investigators that he accompanied Vasquez-Vittini to 226 Boland Avenue after receiving a phone call. They parked in front of the apartment and shortly after a red, brown or burgundy vehicle parked them.
Matos claimed to have noticed that a black guy got out of the vehicle and entered the residence, the clothes that he had placed on the vehicle were red, brown or burgundy.
After hitting the garments on the vehicle, the black man and a Hispanic man sat in the back seat of the Toyota occupied by Matos and Vasquez-Vittini.
Matos told investigators that he saw Vasquez-Vittini a small bag from his pocket and slid it to the rear, then heard gunshots.
Matos fled the Toyota and raced down Boland Avenue as Vasquez-Vittini accelerated in the Toyota.
A witness told investigators he heard gunshots and observed a black male with a handgun in his hand running in the street picking up cash blowing around before fleeing in the red, maroon or burgundy vehicle backing up and turning forward on Vine Street, the search affidavit says.
An Amazon Prime delivery driving force picked up a remaining bill that was left at the scene.
The court order’s home page lists Hakim Wilburn and Danielle Moorer as the Boland Avenue residence, which is displayed through Luzerne County asset records.
Wilburn and Moorer were indicted by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking offenses in August 2018 when the apartment was searched by the FBI.
Several citizens of Boland Avenue said the user living in the apartment is Wilburn’s nephew, who moved in from Friday night to Saturday morning.
Investigators seized several pieces of the residence, adding probation cards from Luzerne and Lackawanna counties, an identity card with a call from a man, a status card from a woman, a driver’s license with a call from a man and a bell, depending on the march. reverse of court order.
A 9mm shell case discovered by investigators on the sidewalk in front of the apartment Sunday.
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WILKES-BARRE – City police arrested a guy who they say discharged at least 3 rounds from a handgun after arguing over a cell phone charger Thursday.
Lamar Tyriq Jordan, 22, of Charles Street, Wilkes-Barre, armed with a loaded Array45 caliber pistol when he was arrested on Baltimore Street in the Boulevard Townhomes complex just before 7 p.m. court records.
Police allege that Jordan discharged cartridges from the pistol into a busy vehicle through her friend after arguing over a mobile phone charger.
According to the complaint:
Police went to Baltimore Street for shots and noted that Jordan matched the shooter’s description.
Jordan told authorities he had a gun in his pocket where it was recovered.
Police said the pistol was unregistered and he had a circular in his chamber with six circulars in the 10-circular magazine, according to the complaint.
Jordan’s friend told police that she was arguing with Jordan over a mobile phone charger. When Jordan was removed from the vehicle, she began to drive away when she heard gunshots, according to the complaint.
Police said the vehicle occupied two youths in child safety seats.
A bullet hole discovered near the rear of the driver’s side door. Three bullet casings were recovered near the vehicle, police said.
Jordan told police he called him in the ear because he “skipped the blows,” the complaint says.
Jordan prosecuted on Friday through District Judge Joseph Halesey of the Canton of Hannover on 3 counts of nuisance attack, non-unusual attack and reckless danger and one of firearms that must not be transported without permission and propel missiles in an occupied vehicle. He was incarcerated at the Luzerne County Correctional Center for lack of a $ 250,000 bond.
WILKES-BARRE – A guy who, according to city police, lured a former girlfriend to an assembly where he punched her in the face before being arrested Friday.
Malik Jermaine Macon, 28, of South Sherman Street, Wilkes-Barre, imprisoned without bail through District Judge Joseph Halesey in the Canton of Hannover, where he was brought to trial on two counts of nuisance assault and non-unusual assault and one charge of recklessly endangering some other person.
Halesey deemed Macon a danger to society in denying bail.
Macon is the third user charged with the murder of his ex-girlfriend on March 16 in a vehicle on Simpson Street.
According to complaints:
The victim told police she contacted her through her ex-boyfriend, Macon, asking to meet because he was moving to Georgia.
When the victim arrived on Simpson Street, they pulled Macon out of a white Nissan and broke into the victim’s car.
Macon told the victim to go down the street and stop.
Macon got out of the victim’s car saying, “Now you have to deal with that,” the complaint says.
The victim told police that as soon as Macon got out of his vehicle on the passenger side, Jocelyn Lee Rodriguez, 27, of Wilkes-Barre, opened the driver’s door. The victim tried to move slowly in the seat, but Myesha Upshur, 27, kept the passenger-side door closed while Rodriguez slashed her face with a knife, according to the complaint.
Police were notified when the victim attended Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Plains Township.
Rodriguez faces two counts of nuisance and non-unusual assault and one count of recklessly endangering another person. She remains free on $ 250,000 bond.
Upshur is facing two counts each of criminal conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and simple assault and one count of criminal conspiracy to commit recklessly endangering another person in county court. She remains jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $150,000 bail.
PLYMOUTH — A person was transported to a hospital for a reported gunshot wound early Thursday afternoon.
Police said the victim was discovered in an apartment on Jeanette Street with a gunshot wound sustained while sitting inside a nearby vehicle on Ferry Street.
Police, the State Police Forensic Services Unit and Luzerne County detectives are on the scene.
A caution tape posted in front of 37, rue Jeanette, where the victim was found.
LUZERNE – Luzerne district police arrested a guy on Thursday accused of sexually assaulting a child for several years.
Michael Alan Hornick, 28, of Charles Street, Luzerne, indicted by District Judge David Barilla in Forty Fort on charges of child rape, statutory sexual assault, indecent assault, bribery of minors and two counts of involuntary intercourse. He was incarcerated in the Luzerne County Correctional Center without bond because Barilla viewed him as a danger to society.
Police say Hornick sexually assaulted a woman between August 2017 and November 2019.
According to the complaint:
Police gained reports on August 1 that a woman had been sexually assaulted through Hornick.
The woman interrogated through a forensic investigator of the child defense center in the canton of Luzerne.
When Hornick police on Aug. 11, admitted to having sex with the woman once, the complaint says.
Court records imply that Hornick was arrested via Luzerne police in December 2019 on allegations that he had sex with a 16-year-old woman from April 2019 to July 2019.
Under a plea deal with prosecutors, Hornick did not appeal a single underage bribery charge and was sentenced June 15 to 15 months probation, according to court records.
Prosecutors dropped a legal sexual assault rate that was in opposition to Hornick’s plea deal.
WILKES-BARRE – Wilkes-Barre Township Police Drug Officers and the State Attorney General’s Office seized a giant quantity of crude fentanyl, crack cocaine, marijuana, prescription pills, and 14 weapons after arresting a convicted felon for buy two people. guns in a gun corridor in Pittston Township.
Larodney McClellan, 31, known as “L” on the street, was arrested when authorities discovered him sitting inside a vehicle parked outside the gun hall on Thursday.
According to court records, officials placed McClellan under surveillance when he allegedly sent two other company insiders to buy firearms.
After McClellan’s arrest, officers searched his apartment at 312 N. Empire Ct., Sherman Hills, where they discovered 14 firearms that added an AK-47 type rifle and shotgun, approximately 5,850 doses of crude fentanyl, forty-five grams of crack, 1600 Alprazolam. tablets, 400 Percocet tablets, one hundred oxycodone tablets and 1.2 pounds of marijuana, according to court records.
Police said $ 2,000 in counterfeit expenses of $ 100 and $ 11,000 in illegal pharmaceuticals were also seized.
According to the complaint:
Officers observed McClellan waiting inside a Hyundai parked outside the gun dealership and a woman and another user entered the business.
Internal company agents saw the woman buying ammunition that she had brought to McClellan in the vehicle and returning to the store where the other user filled out the papers to acquire two 9mm pistols, according to the complaint.
When the acquisition was denied after a state gun background check, McClellan arrested along with the woman and the other person.
In an interview with officers, McClellan admitted that the narcotics found in the apartment belonged to him for distribution in the Wilkes-Barre area, the complaint says.
McClellan prosecuted Thursday through District Judge Michael Dotzel of the Luzerne County Central Court on 8 counts of illegal possession of a firearm, six counts of ownership with the intention of delivering a controlled substance, and a charge for each of trafficking in profits from illegal activities, conspiracy of criminals, sale of firearms to an ineligible assignee , illegal use of a means of communication and ownership of accessories similar to the drug. He was imprisoned at the county correctional facility for lack of a $200,000 bond.
Court records say McClellan is prohibited from purchasing, owning, carrying and possessing firearms due to a drug trafficking conviction in New Jersey.
EDWARDSVILLE — Borough police obtained an arrest warrant for Daury Adalberto Pichardo-Gomez, 25, on child sex offenses.
Pichardo-Gómez police fled to New York.
An arrest warrant signed through Kingston District Judge James Haggerty on Wednesday indicting Pichardo-Gomez with two counts of indecent assault and one each of corruption and indecency of minors.
Police said the victim was a 9-year-old woman and the alleged crime took position at Eagle Ridge Apartments.
Police were assisted in the investigation by Luzerne County detectives.
Anyone found at Pichardo-Gomez’s whereabouts should call Edwardsville Police at 570-288-8463.
By ED LEWIS
KINGSTON – A guy remained in jail Thursday for seeking to disarm a police officer from his Taser in a bitter fight this week.
Police intervened in an apartment on Second Avenue when a Woguy began yelling for help shortly after 5:30 a.m. of Monday. Officers learned that the woguy was crying for help due to a guy having a medical emergency.
Officers entered an apartment with emergency technicians and helped send Joshua Yackimowicz, 41, to an ambulance.
Police allege that Yackimowicz had a fight with an officer.
Two more officers entered the apartment due to hearing screams and a loud commotion and observed the fight, police said.
Yackimowicz warned that if he didn’t stop him, he would be knocked out by a taser gun.
An officer deployed a taser pistol that struck Yackimowicz in the chest. The taser failed because Yackimowicz got rid of the taser pins from his body, police said.
Police said Yackimowicz continued to fight, prompting the officer at one point to deploy a Taser that had no effect on him.
A third officer knocked out Yackimowicz with a Taser and the fight, Yackimowicz grabbed the Taser in an attempt to disarm the third officer, police said.
Yackimowicz was finally arrested.
Yackimowicz accused of annoying assault, disarming a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, recklessly endangering and harassing. He prosecuted through District Judge Donald Whittaker of Nanticoke and remained incarcerated at Luzerne County Correctional Center on $250,000 bail.
The officers and paramedics involved in the fight were treated and discharged from a hospital.
WILKES-BARRE – A wilkes-Barre guy was arrested for attempted robbery, claiming he ordered a store clerk in Turkey Hill to open the store early Wednesday morning.
City police allege that 37-year-old Mark Norman entered the store on North Wilkes-Barre Boulevard before 1 a.m.
One store told police that Norman walked up to the counter and said, “I know you’re painting here. Tell me the code for the safe. I need you to open the safe ”, according to the thief’s complaint.
The store clerk told Norman he was not able to open the safe, the complaint says.
In the complaint, police reported that Norman had ordered cigarettes, the employee had told him to leave the store.
The store clerk followed Norman outside and observed him get into a Chevrolet Suburban driven by Reynaldo Molina, 35, the complaint says.
Police said the store clerk reported he took out his cell phone pretending to record when Molina yelled to him, “What the (expletive) you looking at,” before driving away at a high rate of speed.
A partial license plate was received that led police to an apartment on North Pennsylvania Avenue where Molina was arrested.
Norman discovered it in Kirby Park, police said.
Norman has been charged with theft and reckless endangerment of the user and Molina has been charged with unscrupulous conspiracy to engage in theft and misrepresentation.
Nanticoke District Judge Donald Whittaker arrested the two detainees at the Luzerne County Correctional Center for lack of bail of $ 100,000 each.
KINGSTON – Police arrested an Allentown guy on Wednesday as he showed up at the domain with the aim of rounding up who he said was a 15-year-old Woguy to have sex.
David A. Dannecker Jr., 37, of East Juniata Street, sent a series of sexually particular text messages to a police detective who went undercover as a teenager, court records show.
Dannecker prosecuted through Nanticoke District Judge Donald Whittaker for five counts of unlawful contact with a minor and one count of unlawful use of a communication medium. He was incarcerated at the Luzerne County Correctional Center for lack of a $ 250,000 bond.
According to the complaint:
A detective posing as a teenager on social media got a message from Allentown’s “David” on August 2.
David has been known as Dannecker.
Dannecker wrote in his first post, “Hello,” and was looking for “someone to see what’s going on with,” the complaint says.
Phone numbers were exchanged between Dannecker and the detective, making it possible to talk between the two via text messages.
Dannecker was told he was messaging a 15-year-old girl and was asked if he was mad due to the age.
“I’m angry, I’d better get in trouble,” Dannecker replied, according to the complaint.
Dannecker reportedly asked her if she could wear a suit when he met her.
The police reportedly wrote that some messages had been sent to social media, while Dannecker claimed to have lost the phone number to exchange text messages.
After Dannecker gained the phone number again, police said he sent sexually particular messages and sexual positions he enjoyed, according to the complaint.
Dannecker sent pictures of her face, called the woman “Babe,” asked her if she “believed in love at first sight” and sought to “hug,” according to the complaint.
Police in the complaint said Dannecker asked the woman if she was taking contraceptives.
Dannecker took a day off as a tow truck to meet her in Kingston when she was arrested.
In an interview with police, Dannecker allegedly admitted to having a particular sexually verbal exchange with whom he said was a 15-year-old woman and planned to have sex with the woman, the complaint says.
WILKES-BARRE – A guy who claimed to be the target of a gunguy arrested Tuesday night for drug dealing.
The city police officer at the Sherman Hills apartment domain near Coal Street heard multiple shots and observed a vehicle leaving the compound around 11:23 p.m.
Police stopped the vehicle and met the driving force as Trevor Holman, 30, of Wilkes-Barre.
Holman told police he fired near the front of the compound. A bullet hole uncovered in the passenger-side door of Holman’s vehicle, police said.
Police said they recovered 15 shell casings where Holman said he aimed.
Holman reportedly told police there was a white vehicle involved.
Police said Holman was uncooperative.
A record check showed Holman was wanted on two counts of property with intent to deliver a controlled substance and one count each for possession of a controlled substance and illegal use of a media. He filed charges Wednesday through District Judge Donald Whittaker in Nanticoke and incarcerated at the Luzerne County Correctional Center for lack of a $ 100,000 bond.
A state appeals court upheld a Luzerne County jury verdict that Keith Michael Williams was guilty of manslaughter in the shotgun homicide of Brock Earnest in 2017.
Williams, 44, appealed the conviction and a criminal sentence of 4 years, six months to nine years, saying the fatal shooting was in self-defense.
State police said Williams and Earnest, 40, of Montandon, were concerned in an outdoor fight at an apartment on Old Tioga Turnpike in Fairmount Township on January 11, 2017.
After the fight, and while Earnest was sitting on a couch inside the residence, Williams went to a bedroom and loaded a shotgun, entered the living room and shot Earnest in the chest, according to court records.
Forensic pathologist Dr. Gary Ross said at Williams’ trial before Luzerne County Judge David W. Lupas in August 2018 that the shotgun blast left a circular gap approximately 2.25 inches in diameter. on Earnest’s chest. Based on the injury, Ross estimated that the barrel of the shotgun was between 2.5 and 6 feet from Earnest.
Williams’ friend at the time, Diedre Depiero, testified at trial that she invited Earnest into space after Earnest claimed she had oral cancer and felt she ‘needed to be with someone’.
Depiero told jurors that Williams and Earnest were fighting, but she first called him playful before spiraling out of control.
On his appeal, Williams invoked self-defense and denied that there was insufficient evidence for a conviction. Williams believed he was in immediate and imminent danger of death from serious injuries, according to his call.
Assistant District Attorneys Michelle Hardik and Justin Richards sought a conviction for murder in the first or third degree, while Williams attorneys, Demetrius Fannick and Christine Marie Trout, sought an acquittal on the basis of self-defense.
In the end, the jury found Williams guilty of manslaughter, one of the five crimes under the Criminal Homicide Act.
“Obviously, the jury, as an investigator of the facts, did not consider any component of the evidence that it considered credible. Taken together, the evidence presented through (the assistant district attorneys) fully supports the jury’s conclusion that the (prosecutors) fulfilled their responsibility to prove that (Williams) was not acting in self-defense when he ‘shot and killed Victim, 3: A panel of state Superior Court members ruled Tuesday.
The appeals court ruled that evidence presented through prosecutors during the trial showed that the match between Williams and Earnest had ended prior to the shooting, and Williams was able to distance himself from Earnest after the match.
NANTICOKE – State police and rangers, some armed with attack rifles, returned to Lower Broadway in Nanticoke on Tuesday to search a heavily wooded domain in search of Richard Walski, whose dog was discovered nearby in the Honey Pot.
A campsite was found deep in the woods along the Susquehanna River, law enforcement sources said.
Richard Walski, 46, is wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of his wife Patricia Walski, whose decomposed body was discovered in a garbage bag inside their home at 195 Schrader St., Larksville, August 13.
State police said Richard Walski was an avid fisherman and frequented the Susquehanna River from Wilkes-Barre to Towanda in Bradford County.
Soldiers at the scene said Richard Walski’s chocolate Labrador Retriever, named Yukon, was discovered through a woman in Honey Pot, less than a mile from where state police had been stationed. a command post on the Nanticoke aspect of the Nanticoke-West Nanticoke Bridge.
The camp was discovered closer to the Honey Pot, resources at the site said.
Patricia Walski’s framework learned from Larksville police that they were conducting a wellness check on the home when relatives in Suffolk County, New York, hadn’t heard from them for at least two weeks.
An autopsy Patricia Walski died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to court order affidavits.
A photo of the Yukon when discovered posted on the Facebook site Nanticoke Venting Forum Monday night. It didn’t take long for someone to recognize the dog, as state police released pictures of the dog on Monday.
The Yukon discovered with porcupine quills on the nose.
Sources at the command post said the discovery of the Yukon was a coincidence with the search scheduled for Friday. Resources wouldn’t say if they plan to use the Yukon to search the forest.
Richard Walski’s Chevrolet Colorado discovered in the woods with keys and clothing hours after his wife’s body was discovered, but his boat and trailer are still missing.
Soldiers and ranger officers used dogs to search the forest, first concentrating along an active railroad track before reaching the river.
At one point in the search, nearly two dozen infantrymen and guard officers returned to the command post, tested two maps of the terrain, and returned to the forest.
Ranger officials introduced a private waterboat Tuesday afternoon at the Hunlock Township launch and went up the river to search along the shores.
Deputy District Attorney Jarrett Ferentino arrived and was led into the woods by soldiers. About an hour later, Ferentino sent back to the command post and left.
State police said Richard Walski is also known for fishing grounds in New York City, namely the Finger Lakes domain, Oswego, Hampton Harbor, and Watertown, as well as the Genesee River in Rochester, New York.
Anyone with information on Richard Walski or who may have been in business since July 31 should call the Wyoming State Police at 570-697-2000.
WYOMING – State Police criminal investigators on Monday expanded their investigation into the shooting death of Patricia Walski, whose decomposed body was discovered in a garbage bag inside a Larksville apartment earlier this month.
Investigators are for Walski’s husband, Richard Walski, 46, a volunteer fisherman known for frequenting locations along the Susquehanna River from Wilkes-Barre to Towanda in Bradford County.
Richard Walski is also known for fishing grounds in New York City, namely the Finger Lakes domain, Oswego, Hampton Harbor and Watertown, and the Genesee River in Rochester, New York, state police said.
State police said Walski was a member of the Fishing Creek Sportsmen’s Association in Benton, Columbia County, and a member of a cabin in Wyoming County’s Noxen Township domain.
Richard Walski and his dog, a 5-year-old chocolate lab named Yukon, have been noticed since the beginning of August.
Registration orders filed as part of the investigation mean that Richard Walski sent a text message to a neighbor on August 2, indicating that he was fine and would be fishing in a camp for several days. Richard Walski also stated in the text that he had poor cellular service, according to search warrants.
The decomposed body of Patricia Walski was discovered inside the couple’s home at 195 Schrader St., Larksville, a wellness check through Larksville police on August 13.
An autopsy of the chart that Patricia Walski had died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to search warrants.
Neighbors told investigators that Richard Walski’s truck, a Chevrolet Colorado, a boat and a dog were missing when the frame was found.
Anyone with information on Richard Walski or who may have been in business since July 31 should call the Wyoming State Police at 570-697-2000.
WILKES-BARRE — City police said they located the vehicle that drove away after an occupant threatened people with a firearm outside the Turkey Hill store on North Wilkes-Barre Boulevard on Friday.
Police responded at 10:22 p.m. in one report, a guy pointed a gun at people.
Several others told police that they had argued with the gunguy about the collision with their vehicle. During the argument, the guy brandished and pointed a gun at the other people and left.
Police won a partial license plate number and located the vehicle.
Police said who was driving the vehicle at the time of the alleged threat was under investigation.
WILKES-BARRE – City police arrested a guy who they say threatened two with a knife at Park Avenue Tower on Sunday.
Robert Lee, 27, of Roosevelt Street, Edwardsville, was arrested when police discovered him holding a baseball bat on South Hancock Street just before 3 p.m.
Police said a knife was discovered in Lee’s pocket, court records show.
According to the complaint:
Police responded to Park Avenue Towers after reporting that a man armed with a knife “chased” two women.
A woman told police she parked her vehicle and saw Lee yelling at a woman. She walked into the apartment complex and asked the woman to accompany her if she felt unsafe.
Police said they followed the tenant into construction of the apartment, but Lee put his foot in the door, preventing it from closing.
Lee brandished a knife, threatened to stab them, and said he would “slap the (curse)” of the victim, upon complaint.
Lee left the apartment complex and arrested him a block away.
Police said when Lee arrested and ordered him to drop the baseball bat, he blurted out, “I’m not going to blow up anybody,” the complaint says.
Lee prosecuted through District Judge Donald Whittaker in Nanticoke on charges of theft, property of fraudulent instruments, terrorist threats, non-unusual assault, harassment, and two counts of disorderly conduct. He spent at Luzerne County Correctional Center for a $100,000 bond.
WILKES-BARRE – City police arrested a guy they said was wanted for violating state probation when a vehicle crashed in a chase Friday night.
Ryan A. Jones, 32, a man indexed as homeless, walked away from traffic prevention on South Main Street and filed a lawsuit that ended when he crashed into a pole, fence and vehicle outside an apartment in the Hazle neighborhood. and Jones Streets, according to court records.
Police said Jones abandoned the crashed vehicle and was arrested when police saw him running down Essex Lane.
Jones learned this when police discovered the internal mail of the crashed vehicle he sent him while he was incarcerated at the Dallas State Correctional Center in Jackson Township.
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections records show that Jones was released on February 20 after serving a break-in sentence.
Police said Jones searched through state probation officers in Harrisburg.
According to the complaint:
Police arrested Jones for driving a Chevrolet Impala, an inspection sticker displayed on the windshield around 7:20 p.m. Friday.
Jones stopped at South Main Street near Parrish Street, where he met with a fake call and date of birth.
When an officer informed Jones that he would obtain his fingerprints electronically to locate his true identity, Jones the Chevrolet and launched a chase down South Main Street, Dana Street, Park Avenue and Hazle Street, where he crashed into Jones Street.
Jones police left the vehicle and stopped at Essex Lane.
After Jones’ arrest, he threatened officials by telling them, “I will insult you (I will insult) you at headquarters when you take off your handcuffs (insults, insults and racists). You’re everything (sexual sledd). Yes, I gave you a fake “I’ll let you know right away, take off my handcuffs and knock you out,” the complaint reads.
Jones arrested through District Judge Donald Whittaker in Nanticoke on 4 counts of terrorist threats, two counts of fleeing to avoid apprehension and one count each for fleeing or attempting to escape from police, reckless danger, false police identification, reports fake police, escape and 10 traffic and vehicle infractions. He was incarcerated at the Luzerne County Correctional Center without bond.
PITTSTON – A former Duryea police sergeant was arrested Sunday on domestic violence charges, alleging he suffocated and knocked out his ex-wife.
Michael Rosemellia, 35, of New Street, Duryea, is incarcerated at the Luzerne County Correctional Center for strangulation, assault and stalking.
Pittston police have filed a complaint against Rosemellia after investigating domestic disturbances on Chapel Street Sunday afternoon.
According to the complaint:
Police arrived at the Chapel Street space where they discovered a damaged table and glass and spoke with Michelle Wroblewski.
Wroblewski knew Rosemellia as her husband.
He claimed that Rosemellia appeared in the space looking for a cushion for his outdoor dining set. Wroblewski told Rosemellia not to enter the space because it was a disaster.
Wroblewski claimed that Rosemellia threw her on a table and hit her in the face. When she fought, she told police that Rosemellia strangled her, reducing her ability to breathe.
Wroblewski continued to fight by biting, scraping and tearing the shorts Rosemellia wore, according to the complaint.
When Wroblewski began to choke, he told police that his 4-year-old daughter hit Rosemellia with a cane and yelled, “Stop daddy, stop,” according to the complaint.
Rosemellia let Wroblewski pass and hit her in the face, complaining, knocking her unconscious on the kitchen floor.
When Wroblewski woke up, Rosemellia left with her children.
Police said Wroblewski called his mother, alleging that Rosemellia suffocated and beat her and that her children were taken through him.
Rosemellia arrested at her home.
Wroblewski police had neck injuries.
Rosemellia resigned from duryea Police Department in January 2019 after being accused of interfering with the twisting of the fate of his ex-wife’s vehicle in Old Forge in May 2018. At the time, his wife’s driver’s license was suspended.
Court records imply Rosemellia appeared at the twist of fate scene and waved her license plate at the other driver. Rosemellia filed a claim with Erie Insurance saying her mother-in-law was driving the vehicle and won a check for $ 3,686.08 in damages.
Rosemellia pleaded guilty in Lackawanna County Court to obstruct law enforcement and was sentenced to one year of probation in April 2019, court records show.
Nanticoke District Judge Donald Whittaker charged Rosemellia with violence.
EXETER TWP. – Wyoming State Police allege that Glenn William Davis, 27, was drunk when he collided with a motorcycle and sent two other people to the hospital Thursday night.
Davis reportedly had a blood alcohol point of 0.181% when he took a breathalyzer test, state police said.
State police said Davis, operating a 2013 Dodge Dart, collided with the back of a 2018 Harley Davidson Street Glide operated through Charles Saypack, 49 West Nanticoke, on Highway 92 near Sutton Creek Road just after 8:30 p.m.
Saypack told state police that he was slowing down because of an animal on the road when he was struck from a vehicle, court records show.
Saypack and passenger Melissa Rynkiewicz, 45, of Sweet Valley, were transported to Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Plains Township.
State police said in court records that Davis had an alcoholic breath odor and displayed bloodshot, glassy eyes at the scene.
Davis resisted arrest because an officer in Exeter Township had to handcuff him to a soldier, court records show.
State police alleged that Davis threatened to kill the soldier and continually said he would hit him in the face.
Davis prosecuted through Nanticoke District Judge Donald Whittaker for two counts each of nuisance vehicle attack while driving under the influence, driving under the influence and reckless endangering, and one count each of resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, public intoxication and 3 citations to the highway code. He was incarcerated at the Luzerne County Correctional Center for lack of a $ 75,000 bond.
WILKES-BARRE TWP. – Township police charged a Moosic guy with perjury when he falsely testified before a district justice of the peace who ruled on getting rid of his truck.
Joseph Colarusso, 64, of Glenmaura Drive, was cited through township police with multiple tickets for vehicles blocked by traffic on Wilkes-Barre Township Boulevard on January 10.
Police allege that Colarusso’s Ford F250 had multiple device violations, expired emission and inspection labels, an expired registration, and was uninsured.
In an abstract trial before District Judge Michael Dotzel on Aug. 4, a hearing in which Colarusso was sworn in, he claimed he had “disposed of” the vehicle, according to court records.
Colarusso allegedly told the officer before the abstract trial and procedures began when Dotzel asked him to get rid of the vehicle.
The officer withdrew the vehicular violations opposed to Colarusso on the basis of his sworn testimony, from court records.
After the abstract trial, the officer made a search showing that Ford had an active record.
The officer went to Moosic at 2 a.m. on August 10 when he saw the Ford stationed at Colarusso’s residence, showing the same plaque and expired decals from the January 10 traffic stop, in court records.
Colarusso indicted Thursday through District Judge Ferris Webthrough in Luzerne County Central Court for perjury and perjury fees. He released on his own.
WILKES-BARRE – A district sentence in Butler Township was acquitted of an abstract misdemeanor offense of harassment following a hearing in the Luzerne County courthouse on Friday.
Daniel O’Donnell, 51, of Drums, cited by state police on June 19 based on allegations that he drove his stepfather, Francis Petrovich.
The citation alleged that O’Donnell had led 80-year-old Petrovich to an internal verbal discussion at the district judge’s apartment on June 16, 2019.
Almost a year after the alleged incident, Petrovich filed a lawsuit with the district attorney’s office, which referred the case to state police in Hazleton.
The complaint came after O’Donnell filed for divorce from his wife, Petrovich’s daughter.
After O’Donnell was charged with harassment, he filed an affidavit for a cover order opposed to abuse against his ex-wife.
In his PFA request, which he withdrew, O’Donnell alleged that he had been attacked through Petrovich and harassed via phone calls and text messages and that a relative of his ex-wife had followed him.
When O’Donnell quoted him, Presiding Judge Michael T. Vough barred him from presiding over criminal cases. O’Donnell may assume the position of president of criminal cases.
Bradford County District Judge Timothy M. Clark presided over the hearing ignoring O’Donnell’s harassment citation on Friday.
JENKINS TWP. – A Wyoming woman had a blood alcohol level almost 4 times the legal limit when she struck a vehicle head-on and killed an elderly couple on River Road in October 2019, court records deposited Friday show. .
Zabrina Marie Burge, 28, of East Seventh Street, was pulled over by District Judge Alexandra Kokura Kravitz in Pittston for murder with a vehicle while drunk in the October 10, 2019 crash that killed the lives of Joseph Lyons, 83, and his wife, Gloria Lyons, 80, of Forty Fort.
Jenkins Township Police alleged Burge was driving a 2016 Hyundai Sonata when he collided head-on with a 2010 Hyundai Sonata.
According to court records, police said Burge’s alcohol content is over 30%. An adult powerhouse in Pennsylvania is thought to be legally intoxicated with an alcoholic strength of 0.08 percent.
After the accident, Burge and a female passenger in his vehicle were transported to Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center.
According to the complaint:
An officer, while questioning Burge at the hospital about the accident, detected a strong smell of alcoholic beverage on her. Burge told the officer that he had fed on various alcoholic beverages at his workplace, a place to eat at Arena Hub Plaza in Wilkes-Barre Township.
Police said Burge was upset, crying and kept asking questions about other people in the other vehicle that crashed, according to the complaint.
Burge reportedly told police that he would go to Pittston’s house but that he did nothing about the accident.
Police estimated that Burge was travelling at 56 mph at the time of the head-on crash, according to the report.
Burge was charged with two counts each of vehicle murder while driving under the influence and driving under the influence of alcohol, one count of assault on the vehicle while driving under the influence and 4 citations on highways. She released on an unsecured bond of $ 100,000.
KINGSTON – Detectives from the Kingston County District Attorney’s Office and Luzerne arrested a Wilkes-Barre guy after he allegedly arranged a sexual date with a fictional 15-year-old woguy on Thursday.
Robert Michael Montigney, 27, was arrested outside his Grove Street home on charges that he sent a photo of his genitals to the teenager.
According to the complaint:
Detectives on a social media site gained a message from a guy known as Montigney just before 6 p.m. Montigney’s first “Hello” message.
A reply message sent to Montigney with a phone number to chat via SMS.
In a series of text messages, Montigney asked how old the woman was and asked for a photo.
When Montigney won a girl image, she said “Very sexy” and asked, “Why do you like sex?” The complaint.
Montigney asked the woman if he could see her texting in the room and would have sent her a photo of her genitals.
The woman asked Montigney what he was doing with his genitals and his answer: “You were there, I show you what I can do; Do I have a sexy picture?” the complaint said.
Detectives told Montigney that the woman was not driving and Montigney replied that she could not pass anywhere and that she would have to walk to Wilkes-Barre to see him provide her Grove Street address.
Montigney told the girl: “To let you know that I live with my mom, but she goes to my room and my room has a back door,” the complaint says.
Montigney wrote that he would wear a gray shirt.
Detectives attended Montigney’s apartment and saw him outside wearing a gray blouse during his arrest.
During an interview, Montigney admitted to sending a photo of her genitals and seeking to meet whoever said a 15-year-old woman would have sex, according to the complaint.
Montigney ruled Friday through District Judge Donald Whittaker in Nanticoke on 3 counts of illegal contact with a minor and a single charge of illegal use of a media outlet. He was jailed at the county correctional facility on a $250,000 bail.
WILKES-BARRE – Mount Zion Baptist Church attorney believes there is circumstantial evidence of racial discrimination in the Wilkes-Barre City Council vote not to replace land zoning with a church and a planned network corridor.
Attorney Michael Melnick, on behalf of Mount Zion, filed a reaction to the municipality’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed through the church to overturn the council’s resolution to retain land along the South Sherman Street area for industries. heavy.
Mount Zion, a small church with limited parking on Hill Street in Wilkes-Barre, plans to build a new church and a network corridor along South Empire Street in the township. The location is a forest across from the Mayflower Apartments in Wilkes-Barre.
Although the planning municipality mandates the zoning replacement of an M-3 heavy business district to an R-3 residential domain under the municipality’s zoning ordinance, the council denied the zoning request. at an assembly held in April 2019.
Melnick in court records said the council announced the April 2019 assembly and invited church officials ahead of their vote.
Melnick filed a lawsuit in Luzerne County Court last year for the council’s resolution to be overturned.
Last month, the town attorney, John Rodgers, filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, the Luzerne County court had no jurisdiction to rule on an appeal.
Rodgers says the court has the power to interfere with the council’s legislative process.
Melnick responded by arguing council’s vote in April 2019 violated the church’s right to a fair hearing by failing to invite them to the meeting when council voted.
“This is circumstantial evidence of racial discrimination in that the all-white Wilkes-Barre Township Council denied the zoning change to the Black Baptist Church Mount Zion,” Melnick wrote in his response.
Melnick noted that the council voted to deny the zoning replacement in April 2019 following the objection of its own attorney, defeated attorney Bruce Phillips.
Phillips then rescheduled the hearing before council, which “rubber stamped” their earlier decision on May 28, 2019, Melnick wrote.
Melnick believes the court has jurisdiction to determine the lawsuit.
Rodgers can be contacted to comment Thursday on Melnick’s response.
WILKES-BARRE – A woman from the canton of Hanover accused of coughing and coughing up saliva in food products in a supermarket will undergo an assessment of her psychiatric abilities.
Attorney Thomas S. Cometa requested the evaluation on behalf of his client, Margaret Cirko, 36, who faces a rate of weapons of mass destruction by adding terrorist threats, criminal offences and criminals in the theft of a store in Luzerne County Court.
Earlier this week, President Judge Michael T. Vough’s request comet.
Hanover Cantonal police alleged that Cirko had entered the Gerrity supermarket on Sans Souci Drive on March 25 and shouted, “I have the virus, everyone is going to get sick,” spitting and coughing on foot.
Joe Fasula, co-owner of Gerrity’s, said at the time that he had to throw away about $35,000 in food.
The alleged incident occurred shortly after Gov. Tom Wolf ordered a state of emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Comet asked his psychiatric facility for an evaluation after reuniting Cirko for formal indictment on August 10.
According to Comet’s movement, Cirko “presented a mind and behavior that gave the impression of demonstrating the symptoms of an intellectual fitness disorder.”
Cirko rejected that of a social employee in the county public defender’s office, Comet said in the motion.
Comet said a Psychiatric assessment of Cirko is mandatory for his competence and intellectual ability to perceive criminal proceedings and lend a hand in his defense.
In a similar question, Cometa tried to have the rate of weapons of mass destruction ignored by arguing that the law came with physical fluids.
First Deputy District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce and Deputy District Attorney Drew McLaughlin argued that at Cirko’s initial hearing on June 25 they only needed a “threat” to continue the pace of weapons of mass destruction that opposed she.
A hearing is scheduled for October 6 at Cometa’s to dismiss the charge.
Cirko is negative for the coronavirus after the alleged incident. She remains on the loose on a $ 50,000 bond.
Luzerne County generated $13,255 in a recent silent auction, according to county Purchasing Director Mark Zulkoski.
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HAZLETON – A hit-and-run stopped one on Saturday morning, according to the Hazleton City Police Department.
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HANOVER TWP. – A drug investigation through the Hannover Canton Narcotics Unit and the Luzerne District Prosecutor’s Drug Task Force led to an arrest on Friday afternoon.
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HANOVER TWP. Police arrested a man early Sunday morning after allegedly firing a firearm at an off-road officer in a road rage incident.
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WILKES-BARRE – The Pennsylvania Department of Health showed 3 new cases of COVID-19 in Alfalfa County on Sunday and there were no new deaths.
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PORTLAND, Ore. A user shot dead Saturday night in Portland, Oregon, when a giant caravan of President Donald Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters were facing each other in the streets, police said.
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PLYMOUTH – At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, members of Plymouth Fire Co. No. 1 visited local hospitals to honor frontline staff for their determination and commitment to helping people.
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WILKES-BARRE – Ted Wampole, Jr., executive director of the Luzerne County Office of Visitors and Conventions, encourages small groups, including individuals, to worry and be part of the “Pick Up Pennsylvania” crusade that begins this week.
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Mary Loughlin is urging law enforcement to attend an upcoming single online epilepsy awareness consultation.
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WILKES-BARRE – Back then, young people grew up playing outside.
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WILKES-BARRE – The Pennsylvania Department of Health showed 15 new cases of COVID-19 in Luzerne County and one new death on Saturday.
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The Hanover Region School Board will hold a special board meeting on Monday, August 31, 2020 at five p.m. vote on the cancellation of the autumn sports vote on August 27, 2020 and go ahead with autumn sports and vote on the approval of flexible instruction day for the year 2020-2021.
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WILKES-BARRE – While medical experts warn that the coronavirus is likely to be here to stay, others assume that more new viruses will come.
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WILKES-BARRE – Regardless of whether rain is forecast for Friday, the Rockin ‘the County program has still been able to catch up with its rescheduled early summer schedule.
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SCRANTON – A Sugarloaf Township man was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for using his mobile phone and computer to access child pornography, according to a statement released Friday by the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of Pennsylvania.
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SCRANTON – A federal sentence has sentenced Truman Jones of Wilkes-Barre to more than 17.5 years in prison after his conviction on drug and firearms charges.
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The company that bought and rebuilt Berkshire Hathaway GUARD’s former assets on South River Street in Wilkes-Barre is petitioning the Luzerne City Council to approve a deal that wants to raise $ 1 million in public investment for the allocation.
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Data on COVID-19 instances via state Department of Health ZIP Code Hazleton’s two codes, 18201 and 18202, still make up the largest number of new instances this week, but no longer make up the majority of instances in the Luzerne county.
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WILKES-BARRE – If you are not familiar with the Lincoln Project paintings, you may be after this week.
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WILKES-BARRE – Mayor George Brown announced two more police stations on Friday, completing the list of city venues.
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NANTICOKE: “footprint” floor markings six feet apart, high-tech temperature scanners before entering master bedroom, pedal sanitizing stations, green plastic-wrapped drinking fountains, desks changed to dining tables. Individual Dinner: Students from the Greater Nanticoke domain will face a very different kind of school on Monday.
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DANVILLE – Mark McCullough has been named Geisinger’s new CFO and new CEO of the Geisinger Health Plan, the fitness care organization announced Friday.
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WILKES-BARRE – The city has released the list of streets to be swept on August 31 and September 1 through the Wyoming Valley Health Authority.
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WILKES-BARRE – A local consulting firm may be facing a real scandal.
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As we approach fall, the coronavirus pandemic continues to pose a serious risk to Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable citizens – our long-term care citizens and the healthcare that cares for them.
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As Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Police Chiefs Association and a former member of the Pennsylvania Department of Health Medical Marijuana Advisory Board, I would like to express my concerns, and those of many of our members, about the legalization of marijuana and the effects on public protection in communities. The legalization of marijuana in Pennsylvania will pose significant demanding situations for law enforcement because of the accidental consequences it has on crime and public protection.
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WILKES-BARRE – Back then, he grew up playing outside.
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WILKES-BARRE – While medical experts warn that the coronavirus is possibly here to stay, others assume there will be more new viruses to come.
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So far at least, the top two egregious errors of America’s reaction to the pandemic fear testing and public communication. The two were administered in combination this week when the CDC replaced its testing rules in a way that puzzled public fitness scientists.
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Judging from its convention this week, the Republican Party is overdue for rebranding, the way a real estate developer might rebrand a hotel or golf resort. It’s the Trump Party now.
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United Way of Wyoming Valley has kicked off its 2020 crusade, and if that sounded more like a whimper than an explosion, a clever explanation for why: the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the same explanation as to why the crusade and what the United Way does would possibly be more important now than in recent history.
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Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Steven Hahn, having been battered around for his egregiously inaccurate endorsement Sunday of a purported COVID-19 treatment pushed by President Donald Trump, walked that endorsement back Monday and Tuesday.
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WILKES-BARRE – If you are looking for symptoms that show which candidate is ahead in the 2020 presidential crusade, just look for the symptoms: symptoms of the political crusade.
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WILKES-BARRE – Linda Armstrong told me she hated the term “ground zero.”
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The big cats are in crisis.
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There he was on television in front of me, Joe Biden accepting the Democratic nomination for the presidency and describing the nation’s demanding situations: COVID-19, an economy in shambles, a quest for racial justice and climate change. Then the television went off and the lights went out. The space, and indeed the entire community, just suffered a blackout. The symbolism was inescapable.
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We have a lot to deal with the new coronavirus pandemic.
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Pennsylvania and the other five Chesapeake Bay states and the District of Columbia agreed 10 years ago to take steps to cap and protect local waters and ultimately save the bay.
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WILKES-BARRE – Sometimes it feels like what’s left of Great Harveys Lake on those days is water.
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WILKES-BARRE – He has collaborated with Woody Allen on more than 30 films, including Radio Days, for which he won an Oscar nomination for production design, Bullets Over Broadway, an Oscar nomination for production design, and Zelig, his 3rd. Oscar nomination, this one for dress design.
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There is nothing more sacred to our democracy than the right of each and every American citizen to vote for their constituents in government. Equally vital is accepting as true the position of our citizens in our voting systems, which determine who will make up ALL of us. That is why it is imperative that we put in place policies that guarantee the right to vote for each and every citizen, while protecting against fraud and those who wish to undermine our electoral system.
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced this week two separate multi-state coalitions that will record national operational adjustments to federal lawsuits to the US Postal Service.
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Last week, the NCAA Big Ten Conference, of which our colleges are members, announced that it was canceling the fall sports season. In pronouncing their decision, convention officials, university presidents, and sports administrators expressed fear about the physical condition of student-athletes due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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WILKES-BARRE – President Donald Trump’s scale thursday was impressive, to say the least.
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We all know that other people don’t tell the truth, especially politicians.
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I mean, do Americans willing to replace now know enough about Joe Biden to enthusiastically vote for him?
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As Mayor of Wilkes-Barre, I would like to respond to the Times Leader editorial on Sunday, August 16, “Solutions to City Hall Elevator Problems,” with the following review of renovations and renovations. Maintenance that have been carried out at Wilkes- Hotel de ville de Barre since I took on January 6, 2020:
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WILKES-BARRE – Back then, each and every town had a baseball box that was not kept throughout town.
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