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Police Blotter 10.22.09
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JACKSON TOWNSHIP - State police at Stonington continue to investigate a one-vehicle hit and run accident along Ottostation Road near the intersection of Grively Hill Road at 1:45 a.m. Sunday.
Police say that a vehicle was traveling east on Grively Hill Road and approaching a T-intersection with Ottostation Road when the driver failed to stop at a stop sign, traveling across Ottostation Road and struck a mailbox. The vehicle then continued down a slight embankment and into a yard.
The driver and vehicle left the scene, traveling south on Ottostation Road without providing any informatio to the property owner. Police pieced together the crash description based on evidence at the scene. Anyone with information on the crash is asked to contact state police at Stonington at 286-5601.
Public drunkenness
MOUNT CARMEL - Two borough residents were cited for public drunkenness by police Officer Jason Drumheller in recent separate incidents.
Daniel J. Joraskie, 50, of East Avenue, Mount Carmel, was cited for public drunkenness on South Market Street at 4:20 p.m. Oct. 8. Drumheller reported Joraskie was staggering and losing his balance while walking on the 100 block of South Market Street. Drumheller said Joraskie possessed a strong odor of alcohol on his breath.
Karl P. Short, 28, of West Fifth Street, Mount Carmel was cited after a 2 a.m. stop Saturday on the 200 block of South Oak Street. Drumheller said Short was seen dancing, swinging and kicking in the air before stumbling, losing his balance, falling to the ground and rolling down the street. While helping him, police detected alcohol on his breath.
Both citations were filed at the office of Magisterial District Judge Hugh Jones in Mount Carmel.
DUI, hit and run
SHAMOKIN - Barry C. Hughes, 29, of 914 W. Walnut St., Apt. 2, Coal Township, was charged by Patrolman Nathan Rhodes with driving under the influence of alcohol, hit and run, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct relating to an accident at 2 a.m. Wednesday in the 200 block of West Walnut Street.
Police reported Hughes was driving a vehicle that struck two parked vehicles. The defendant also is accused of resisting arrest at the scene, refusing to submit to a blood test and becoming combative with staff at Shamokin Area Community Hospital following the accident.
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