Hindering police
COAL TOWNSHIP - Samuel P. Peters was charged Wednesday by Patrolman Edward Purcell Jr. with a misdemeanor count of hindering apprehension. Peters is accused of helping two people elude probation officers by giving them a ride in the Big Mountain area in February 2014.
Jacob Snyder and Damian Dietrich were involved in a vehicle pursuit with Shamokin police officers near the Raspberry Hill housing complex. The two drove into the woods and abandoned the vehicle. Police said they called Peters for a ride, and that he picked them up somewhere on Big Mountain and drove them to Gowen City.
Fugitive caught
SHAMOKIN - A person wanted on kidnapping charges in Indiana was taken into custody by Shamokin City Police following a traffic stop at 12:49 a.m. Saturday in the area of Market and Arch streets.
According to court documents filed by Shamokin City Police chief Darwin Tobias III, Gabrielle K. Derr, 20, of 322 E. Sunbury St., Apt. 6, Shamokin, was stopped for an illegal left turn at the intersection of Independence and Market streets. After checking her license, it was determined Derr is wanted in Indianapolis, Ind., for charges of kidnapping, criminal confinement and battery resulting in serious bodily injury.
She was taken into custody on the warrant and arraigned by Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III, of Shamokin, Sunday afternoon. She is awaiting extradition.
Simple assault
COAL TOWNSHIP - A township man was committed to prison Sunday after a domestic assault on West Arch Street at 11:09 a.m.
Coal Township Police charged Gary Dombroski Jr., 29, of 1115 W. Arch St., with simple assault and harassment after allegedly hitting his father with a pipe and lunging at his mother and throwing her to the floor.
Dombroski told police that when he came downstairs that morning, he was told he wasn't getting any money, claiming his parents were the aggressors, not him.
He was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III, of Shamokin, and placed in Snyder County Prison on $5,000 cash bail.
Scream and yell
SHAMOKIN - Vanessa S. Thorpe, 33, and Josiah LaRose, 21, both of 213 N. Vine St., Shamokin, were cited by Patrolman Raymond Siko II for disorderly conduct. The pair were allegedly screaming and yelling in the 800 block of East Webster Street about 1 a.m. Sunday.
Underage drinking
SHAMOKIN - Three males were cited for underage drinking Saturday.
Edward N. Hancock III, 19, of 5 W. Commerce St., Shamokin, was cited by Patrolman Raymond Siko II for an incident about 10:50 p.m. in the 100 block of West Commerce Street.
Matthew Dewitt Jr., 20, of 404 N. Shamokin St., Shamokin, was cited by Cpl. Bryan Primerano for an incident about 12:50 a.m. at Market and Arch streets.
Matthew T. Derk, 19, of 322 E. Sunbury St., Apt. 6, Shamokin, was cited by Siko for an incident about 12:50 a.m. at 140 W. Lincoln St., Shamokin. Derk also was issued a traffic citation for a minor driving with alcohol in their system by Siko about 2:36 a.m. at Sunbury and Rock streets.
Curfew violations
SHAMOKIN - Two Sunbury juveniles were cited by Patrolman Raymond Siko II for violating the city's 11 p.m. curfew for minors. The 15-year-old and 16-year-old males were observed on Sunbury Street near Ninth Street about 1:25 a.m. Sunday.
Head-on crash
HERNDON - Anita R. Sardo, 48, of Dornsife, was issued a traffic citation following a head-on crash Thursday in Jackson Township.
State police at Stonington said Sardo drove a 2008 Lincoln MKZ into the oncoming path of a 2013 Dodge Dart as she attempted to turn left from southbound Route 147 onto the Herndon Bypass (Route 3006). The crash occurred about 4:30 p.m. about 1.5 miles north of Herndon.
Sardo's injuries were described by police as moderate. The Dart's driver, Kendel H. Shade, 43, of Elizabethville, suffered a minor injury, police said. Both were reportedly wearing seat belts, and were taken by Americus Ambulance to Sunbury Community Hospital.
Sardo was cited for making an improper left turn.
Two charged in assault
SHAMOKIN - A couple from Mount Carmel were charged with simple assault after the investigation into an April 4 fight at Seventh and Adams streets.
According to Shamokin City Police Patrolman William Zalinski, Samantha Dewald, 19, and Corey McAndrew, 26, both of 48 S. Market St., Mount Carmel, were involved in altercation with the victims, Amber Kehler and Ronald Nye. The victims told police that while they were stopped at a stop sign in the 500 block of South Seventh Street, a vehicle driven by Dewald pulled up behind them and McAndrew started yelling at them to get out of the way. Kehler and McAndrew engaged in a verbal altercation which prompted Dewald and McAndrew to leave their vehicles, pull Nye out of the vehicle and assault Kehler and Nye. Police allege McAndrew punched Nye in the face several times and bit his ring finger, while Dewald struck Kehler in the face and threw her to the ground.
Both were charged with simple assault, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct while McAndrew was also charged with disorderly conduct. The charges were filed with Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III, of Shamokin.
Camera stolen
SUNBURY - Scott Herb, 51, of 345 S. 10th St., Sunbury, told state police at Stonington a trail camera he installed in the woods off Bennick Road in Upper Augusta Township, about 3 miles northeast of Sunbury, was stolen between 10:30 a.m. March 20 and 10:30 a.m. April 6. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 570-286-5601.
Simple assault
SHAMOKIN - Raymond Burns, 54, of 122 E. Arch St., was charged with two counts of simple assault and a charge of harassment following an incident at 7:45 p.m. Sunday at his residence.
Police allege that Burns came home intoxicated and got into a fight with his wife before picking up his boot and throwing it at her, breaking a kitchen window. His wife, Melissa Burns, tried to flee, but Burns struck her several times, causing injuries to her hands as she defended herself. She got in her car and drove away, damaging their garage door before Burns grabbed a pair of hedge clippers and came at her, striking the car's mirror off. He fled the scene before behing apprehended a short time later.
Burns was arraigned Sunday evening before Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III and placed in Snyder County Prison on $5,000 cash bail.
Tools thieved
SUNBURY - Kristin Lee Markowski, 40, told state police at Stonington that tools were among items stolen from a garage at 810 Carroll Road in Rockefeller Township, about 4 miles east of Sunbury. The garage door was forced open between Oct. 1 and April 16. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 570-286-5601.
Break-in attempt
SUNBURY - State police at Stonington say someone attempted to break-in to a residence at 1767 Mile Hill Road in Upper Augusta Township between 4 p.m. April 4 and 5:30 p.m. April 11. Molding around the front and rear doors was damaged, but entry wasn't made. The property is owned by Danny Johnson, 42, and is located about 1.5 miles northeast of Sunbury. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 570-286-5601.
Pellets shot
MOUNT CARMEL - Charges are pending after pellets were shot into a borough home late Sunday night.
Multiple shots were fired shortly after 10 p.m. from a .22 caliber pellet rifle into the rear of 434 W. Second St. The glass on a rear door shattered and a hole was shot into another window, according to borough police.
The shots were reportedly fired from the second floor rear of an Olive Street residence. Two juveniles and an adult male, who police say were observed in the home, were later discovered in a backyard at 443 W. Third St.
Lt. Christopher J. Buhay investigated, with assistance from Patrolman Kevin Katch.
Cabin break-in
LYKENS - Seven people are charged with criminal trespassing after state police said they broke into two cabins at 90 Camp St., Elizabethville.
Police said Tyler Steven Maurer, 19, of 509 Limekiln Road, Dalmatia; Austin Lee Kahler, 24, of 188 Simon Blvd., Elizabethville; Joshua James Han Smith, 21, of 203 Woodley Drive, Harrisburg; a 17-year-old male, of Lykens; Britan Xavier Williams, 20, of 118 Hill St., Gratz; Keaton Robert Leshko, 19, of 612 Center St., Millersburg; and a 16-year-old male, of Elizabethville, broke into two cabins owned by Denise Sites, 55, of Meyerstown, between 2 and 4 p.m. March 27.
In addition to trespassing, the suspects climbed on the roof tops of the cabins and damaged a screen porch, police said.