Unauthorized use
STRONG - Mount Carmel Township Police charged Joseph A. Arrigo, 21, of 418 S. Lehigh Ave., Frackville, with unauthorized use of a vehicle after he allegedly used a vehicle at the Turkey Hill Minit Market, Strong, without the owners' permission March 17.
A summons was filed for Arrigo, who is scheduled for a preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge Hugh A. Jones, Mount Carmel, June 24.
Crash
LYKENS - A 17-year-old girl escaped injury during a crash at 4:23 p.m. Friday at the intersection of East Market and South Main streets in Berrysburg.
Police, who did not identify the girl, said she stopped the 2008 Ford 500 she was driving at a stop sign and then proceeded forward into the pathway of a Chevrolet Impala driven by Jonathan D. Lehman, 28, of Lykens, who was also uninjured.
Police said the girl will be cited for failing to obey stop signs.
DUI
MOUNT CARMEL - Mount Carmel Township Patrolman Keith Tamborelli charged Kyle Richard Pekera, 33, of 1207 Brunsbuck Court, Arnold, Md., with driving under the influence.
Tamborelli said he found Pekera asleep in a truck with its engine running alongside Wilburton Road at 4:14 a.m. March 15. Tamborelli said he smelled alcohol emanating from Pekera, who had his pants open and his hand on his genitals. Pekera also tried to give Tamborelli money for his drivers license and other documents, according to the criminal complaint.
Pekera failed a field sobriety test and a breath analysis test detected a blood alcohol level of .238, Tamborelli said.
Selling drugs
SHAMOKIN - Cpl. Bryan Primerano charged Wendy Ortiz, 39, of 508 W. Pine St., Shamokin, with three felony counts each of possession with intent to deliver and delivery of a controlled substance and one felony count of criminal use of a communications facility after she allegedly sold prescription medications and heroin to an undercover police officer at 5:21 p.m. Feb. 20.
Primerano said an informant told police Ortiz posted on Facebook she wished to sell prescription medications. The informant arranged a purchase of Xanax and Adderall from Ortiz through Facebook, he said, and an undercover officer accompanied the informant.
The officer purchased 10 alprazolam (Xanax) and one amphetamine dextroamphetamine for $30 from Ortiz, said Primerano. The officer then asked Ortiz if she could acquire any heroin and she immediately responded "yes," Primerano said. The officer, informant and Ortiz went to another location where Ortiz acquired one packet of heroin and handed it to the undercover officer in exchange for $20.
DUI
MOUNT CARMEL - Marie Elena Derr, 50, of 443 W. Sixth St., Mount Carmel, was charged by borough Patrolman Kevin Katch with driving under the influence, driving with a blood alcohol content of .16 percent or higher, leaving the scene of an accident and careless driving after she allegedly backed into another vehicle on the 200 block of South Market Street and left the scene around 12:30 a.m. May 4.
Katch said a witness saw a maroon Isuzu back into a parked white Chevy Silverado then drive over to the gas pumps of the Turkey Hill at 130 E. Fifth St. Katch said the vehicle was registered to Derr, and when he arrived at the scene, he saw Derr exit the store. She displayed signs of intoxication, he said.
Derr told him she had felt a "bang" while driving backwards down the street and into the Dollar General parking lot, but when she got out and looked, she saw no damage to her vehicle. The Silverado had damage to the right rear tail light: The assembly was completely shattered and white paint had been transferred.
Derr failed a field sobriety test. A blood test revealed she had a blood alcohol content of .193 percent
DUI
STONINGTON - State Police Trooper David Boucher charged Gilberto Flores, 27, of 1134 W. Valley Ave., P.O. Box 129, Room No. 217, Paxinos, with two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence, one misdemeanor count of providing false identification and summary offenses of driving without a license, failing to stay in a lane, failing to observe stop signs, failing to use a turn signal and careless driving for an incident that occurred at 12:24 a.m. May 17 near the intersection of North Sixth Street and Route 61 in Shamokin.
Boucher said he saw a green 2001 Chevrolet Suburban traveling north on Route 61 that was weaving across the roadway and switching lanes without using a turn signal. When initially pulled over, Flores identified himself as Roger Alvarez and said he did not have a drivers license or any identification, Boucher said. Flores smelled of alcohol and admitted to drinking eight beers.
A breath analysis test detected the presences of alcohol and a blood test confirmed Flores had a blood alcohol content of .149 percent, Boucher said.