Go to The News Item mobile
Police blotter 10/30/09
Font size: [A] [A] [A]
e-mail this
share thisOngoing investigation
MOUNT CARMEL TOWNSHIP - Police are still investigating who fired several shots in a wooded area near the campus of the Mount Carmel Area School District late Monday evening.
Mount Carmel Township Police report they have received more names of possible suspects.
Township Police Chief Brian Hollenbush says that no arrests have been made, but are imminent.
False identification
SHAMOKIN - Robert L. Callo, 41, of Shamokin, has been charged by Patrolman William Miner with providing false identification to police and theft of services relating to an Oct. 20 incident at 32 N. Pearl St.
According to a criminal complaint filed at the office of Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III, Callo is accused of depositing garbage in a Dumpster leased by Bryan Hornberger and providing police with a false first name and date of birth to evade arrest on five warrants that had been served on him in different communities in the state.
One-vehicle crash
UPPER AUGUSTA TOWNSHIP - A Watsontown man escaped injury following a one-vehicle crash on Sunbury Road in Upper Augusta Township at 3:15 p.m. Monday.
State police at Stonington report that a 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse, driven by Joshua E. Mordan, 18, of Watsontown, was traveling west at a high rate of speed and traveled onto the yellow dividing line. The vehicle then crossed the west travel lane and went off the roadway and struck an embankment. The Eclipse spun counterclockwise and continued to travel on the embankment for approximately 36 feet.
Police were assisted at the scene by the Upper Augusta Township Fire Department and said the driver would be cited for driving a vehicle at an unsafe speed.
Criminal mischief
IRISH VALLEY - State police at Stonington reported Zachary A. Clouse, 19, of Oley, threw corn at a car owned by Ned Hartman, 50, of Paxinos, at 1 a.m. Oct. 18.
DUI charges
COAL TOWNSHIP - Geoffrey L. Mako, 51, of 828 N. Sixth St., Shamokin, has been charged by Deputy Chief Henry Schrader with two counts of driving under the influence of alcohol and one count of careless driving relating to an accident Oct. 18 at Sheridan and Hemlock streets.
Mako, who had a blood-alcohol content of .129 percent, is charged with operating a car that crashed into a retaining wall in a private driveway at 23 S. Sheridan St., a parked vehicle owned by David Martin and a tree, causing extensive property damage.
Be the first to comment on this article!