Aggravated assault
ROCKEFELLER TOWNSHIP - A Sunbury man suffered a minor injury after an assault in the area of Beck Road at 3:15 a.m. Sunday.
State police at Stonington report that Ralph Treaster, 43, of 238 Kline Road, Sunbury, was assaulted by an unknown male that was wielding a Maglite-style flashlight, and then threatened him with a pistol.
Harassment
GIRARDVILLE - Colleen C. Kroh, 51, of Ashland, was charged with harassment by state police at Frackville, for an incident in the area of 252 W. Main St., Girardville at 11:43 p.m. Monday.
Police say Kroh was involved in an argument, when the victim, Theodore Stang, 26, of Girardville, tried to stop the argument. Police allege Kroh struck Stang in the back of the head and once in the face, causing redness.
Bad checks
ROCKEFELLER TOWNSHIP - State police at Stonington charged two individuals with writing bad checks to the Sunbury Animal Hospital in two separate incidents.
- Donna Carl, 38, of 238 S. Sixth St., Shamokin, passed a bad check of $329.58 to the hospital on April 13. Attempts were made to have Carl make good on the check, but no money was collected.
- Paul E. Bucher, 48, of 103 N. 12th St., Sunbury, passed a bad check on May 1. The check was returned to the hospital and Bucher failed to make good on the monies owed.
The charges were filed with Magisterial District Judge Benjamin J. Apfelbaum, of Sunbury.
Code violations
COAL TOWNSHIP - Two township residents were cited by code officer Chris Petrovich for separate violations.
Marcella J. Walter, of 872 W. Pine St., was cited for high grass and weeds on three lots on Pine Street on Sept. 24.
Richard C. Kerstetter, of 1010 E. Chestnut St., was cited for an occupancy violation at his home on Monday. He was cited for the same violation on Sept. 4 and Aug. 14.
Indecent exposure
MOUNT CARMEL - Robert M. Daniels II, 25, of 120 Columbia Ave., Atlas, was charged by Lt. Christopher Buhay with indecent exposure, open lewdness, public drunkenness and resisting arrest in connection with an incident at 3:44 a.m. Sunday at the gazebo in Town Park.
Police said Daniels was found with his pants down around his ankles and his genitals exposed. Police reported Daniels began drooling and fondling himself and initially refused to acknowledge Buhay before resisting arrest. Police were forced to carry Daniels to a cruiser and also had to carry him into the police station.
Police found a beer can lying in the park near Daniels, who stated he was drunk.
Multiple charges
SHAMOKIN - A 14-year-old East Cameron Township boy has been charged with Patrolman Scott Weaver with multiple offenses, including felonies for endangering the public, in connection with incidents that occurred Friday.
The officer said the teen has been charged through a juvenile petition with fleeing or eluding and more than 10 other related offenses.
Weaver said the juvenile was driving an all-terrain vehicle erratically on sidewalks and several streets in the Fifth Ward before wedging the ATV between a parked truck and a car driven by Mike Geiswite, of Sunbury Street, Shamokin, in the 500 block of South Pearl Street near Anthracite Provision Co. before speeding away.
Weaver said no injuries occurred, but the truck and car sustained minor damage shortly before 5 p.m.
The officer said the ATV operator fled the scene several times into a wooded area toward Big Mountain before returning to the Fifth Ward as if he was challenging police to catch him. He said the operator may have been under the influence of a controlled substance.
Police searched the area for the driver for a couple hours before apprehending him after he crashed the ATV into Geiswite's car on Pulaski Avenue in the Springfield section of the township. Weaver said Geiswite went looking for the ATV rider after his vehicle was struck on South Pearl Street.
The teen was taken to Northwestern Academy in Coal Township.
Guilty plea
SHAMOKIN - Brenda L. Pomponio, 50, of 120 W. Chestnut St., Shamokin, pleaded guilty to a summary of disorderly conduct Tuesday and was ordered by Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III to pay a $100 fine plus costs and make $20 restitution.
Pomponio was charged by Patrolman Scott Weaver with stealing $20 off the bar at Quinny's Pub at Market and Mulberry streets Aug. 21.
A charge of theft was withdrawn.