Juvenile escapes
COAL TOWNSHIP - Township police say a 17-year-old male from the Stroudsburg area escaped from Northwestern Academy at 4:15 a.m. Sunday. Officers conducted a search of the area around the academy, but the male was not found. Authorities also notified Stroudsburg Police of the escape.
Retail theft
SELINSGROVE - Steven Randall, 22, of Coal Township, was cited by state police at Selinsgrove for retail theft for allegedly stealing $358.28 in merchandise from Wal-Mart along Routes 11-15 at 6:18 p.m. Saturday.
Public drunkenness
COAL TOWNSHIP - Edward Klock, 25, of 209 Trevorton Road, Shamokin, was cited for public drunkenness after being found sitting on a porch on West Pine Street, Shamokin, at 4:46 a.m. Saturday.
Officer Joshua M. Wynn reported that police were called to the home for a report of an intoxicated male sitting on the home owner's porch. An investigation determined that Klock had been drinking and was intoxicated and had been walking in public before entering the home owner's private porch.
Klock told police he was looking for the home of a friend and must have gone to the wrong house.
DUI, terroristic threats
SHAMOKIN DAM - Charles Alan Campbell, 58, of Shamokin Dam, who led police on a chase early Saturday morning after being stopped for a traffic violation on Routes 11-15 near Monroe Market Place, has been charged with multiple offenses.
State police at Selinsgrove reported Campbell fled the scene and was pursued to his residence, where he finally stopped his vehicle. Police said Campbell threatened to strike troopers and was subsequently arrested for aggravated assault, terroristic threats, driving under the influence, resisting arrest, fleeing or attempting to elude police, and multiple summary violations.
PFA violation
STONINGTON - Jose A. Echevarria, 21, of Reading was charged by state police at Stonington with violating a protection from abuse order at 11:47 a.m. Sunday when he contacted a 29-year-old female from Sunbury, who has an active PFA order against him, at the Stonington Wesleyan Church.
Window smashed
SHAMOKIN - Michael Shinskie, 19, of 720 N. Franklin St., Shamokin, is accused of smashing out the rear window of a vehicle parked on the 700 block of North Franklin Street shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday. He was cited by Cpl. Jarrod Scandle with disorderly conduct and underage drinking.
One vehicle crash
BLYTHE TOWNSHIP - No one was injured in a one-vehicle crash at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday on Route 61 in Blythe Township, Schuylkill County.
State police at Frackville report a 2003 Kia Sorento, driven by Colleen M. Gilgore, 37, of Ashland, was traveling north on Route 61 in an area known as "The Grade" and attempting to negotiate a right curve in the roadway when she lost control on the wet road and began to fishtail.
The Sorento then spun in a clockwise direction and traveled off the east berm of the roadway, striking a dirt embankment with its driver's side. Gilgore was uninjured in the crash.
Disorderly charge
SHAMOKIN - Thomas D. Duran Jr., 24, of 733 Scott St., Kulpmont, was cited by Patrolman Mark Costa for disorderly conduct for allegedly fighting at 2:50 a.m. May 17 at Market and Sunbury streets.
Downtown disturbance
SHAMOKIN - Steven Lezama Rivera, 22, of Shamokin, is charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct for an alleged disturbance May 11 outside a downtown bar.
Police say Rivera was observed shouting and shoving people outside Tiffany Lounge, 58 E. Independence St., about 1:30 a.m. while bar employees attempted to calm him down and prevent him from entering the bar.
He continued to act disorderly in the presence of officers and resisted them whiel he was placed in handcuffs, rolling on the ground and kicking at officers.
Rivera was arraigned Tuesday by Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III, Shamokin, and remanded to Northumberland County Prison, Sunbury, in lieu of $5,000 straight bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.
Charges were filed by Cpl. Bryan Primerano.