WPPA / T-102 NEWS / TUESDAY

08/14/07
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AN ORWIGSBURG MAN FACES CRIMINAL CHARGES FOLLOWING AN INCIDENT THAT OCCURRED SUNDAY EVENING WHILE POTTSVILLE POLICE WERE PATROLLING THE GREAT POTTSVILLE CRUISE.ACCORDING TO POLICE 18 YEAR OLD RYAN ISAAC MILLER HAD STOPPED HIS MOTORCYCLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CRUISE ROUTE AND SPUN THE REAR WHEEL CAUSING IT TO LOSE TRACTION AND FISHTAIL NEAR A LARGE GROUP OF SPECTATORS.POLICE THEN BEGAN TO PURSUE MILLER WHO FLED ON HIS MOTORCYCLE AND DROVE INTO THE JFK SPORTS FACILITY CONTINUED DOWN A NARROW WALKING PATH.MILLER IGNORED POSTED SIGNS THAT PROHIBIT MOTOR VEHICLES FROM ENTERING THE PATH.FOLLOWING A BRIEF FOOT PURSUIT POLICE TOOK MILLER INTO CUSTODY.BESIDES CRIMINAL CHARGES MILLER WAS ALSO CITED FOR CARELESS DRIVING WHEN HE WAS STOPPED EARLIER IN THE 1300 BLOCK OF WEST LAUREL BOULEVARD WHILE PERFORMING THE SAME INCIDENT WITH HIS MOTORCYCLE NEAR A CROWD OF SPECTATORS.


08/13/07
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A POTTSVILLE MAN WILL BE CHARGED WITH SEVERAL OFFENSES FOLLOWING AN INCIDENT IN MOUNT CARBON EARLY SATURDAY MORNING.POLICE REPORT THAT 45 YEAR OLD NELSON SIMS WAS LEAVING GOODFELLAS BAR AT CLOSING TIME WHEN HE HAD INAPPROPRIATE CONTACT WITH TWO FEMALES.ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE IN SCH HAVEN SIMS THEN WALKED TO HIS VEHICLE TO LEAVE THE PARKING LOT WHEN JEFFREY DUNKLE OF MT CARBON CONFRONTED SIMS AND BEGAN TO PUNCH SIMS AND ALSO BEGAN HITTING SIMS VEHICLE.AT THAT POINT SIMS PULLED OUT A HANDGUN AND POINTED IT AT DUNKLE THEN FLED THE SCENE.STATE POLICE AND POTTSVILLE CITY POLICE LATER LOCATED SIMS AT HIS RESIDENCE AND WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.SIMS WAS TAKEN TO SCH.COUNTY PRISON AND ARRAIGNED VIA VIDEO CONFERENCE BY DISTRICT JUDGE BAYER.BAIL WAS SET AT 25,000 10% BAIL WHICH SIMS WAS UNABLE TO POST AT THAT TIME.SIMS IS BEING HELD ON FELONY AND OTHER MISDEMEANOR CHARGES.DUNKLE WILL BE CHARGED WITH HARASSMENT AND CRIMINAL MISCHIEF.


08/134/07
NO ONE WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED IN A ONE VEHICLE CRASH ALONG ROUTE 183 SATURDAY AFTERNOON
ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE AT SCH. HAVEN 78 YEAR OLD JOSEPH KRYNOCK OF PORT CARBON WAS TRAVELING NORTH ON PLUM CREEK ROAD IN WAYNE TOWNSHIP AT AROUND 12:30 WHEN HE FAILED TO SEE ANOTHER VEHICLE STOPPED IN THE NORTHBOUND LANE IN FRONT OF HIM WAITING TO TURN LEFT.POLICE SAY KRYNOCK SWERVED TO THE RIGHT TO AVOID A CRASH AND DROVE OFF THE ROAD FOR ABOUT 86 FEET.KRYNOCKS VEHICLE PRECEDED TO HIT A GUIDERAIL THEN SPUN COUNTERCLOCKWISE AND HIT SEVERAL SMALL TREES.KRYNOCKS VEHICLE KEPT MOVING DOWN AN EMBANKMENT AND ROLLED ONTO ITS ROOF WHERE IT CAME TO REST.KRYNOCK SUFFERED MINOR CUTS AND WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO GOOD SAMARITAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOR TREATMENT.KRYNOCKS VEHICLE SUSTAINED MAJOT DAMAGE AND HAD TO BE TOWED FROM THE SCENE.

08/13/07
A STABBING INCIDENT OCCURRED IN THE BOROUGH OF TAMAQUA SUNDAY NIGHT ACCORDING TO THE SCH COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER.TAMAQUA POLICE WOULD NOT PROVIDE ANY DETAILS.SCH COUNTY COMMUNICATINS SUPERVISOR SAID HE COULD PROVIDE NO FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE STABBING IN TAMAQUA.


08/13/07
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A SHARTLESVILLE MAN WAS ARRESTED FOR DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE AFTER HIS VEHICLE WAS STOPPED DUE TO NOT HAVING OPERABLE TAIL LIGHTS.STATE AT SCH HAVEN REPORT THAT DURING A SMOOTH OPERATOR DETAIL HUEY WAS PULLED OVER AND FOUND TO BE IN POSSESION OF AN OPEN CAN OF BEER.HUEY SHOWED SIGNS OF BEING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL AND FAILED A FIELD SOBRIETY TEST.HUEY WILL ALSO BE CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO WEAR A SEATBELT AND A VEHICLE INSPECTION VIOLATION.HUEY WILL BE CHARGED BY DISTRICT MAGISTRATE PLACHKOS OFFICE UPON BLOOD ALCOHOL RESULTS.


08/14/07
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A POTTSVILLE MAN WAS CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING HIS 20 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER WHILE SHE WAS HOLDING HIS 3 YEAR OLD GRANDDAUGHTER ACCORDING TO POTTSVILLE POLICE.51 YEAR OLD ROBERT MICKSHAW OF HOWARD AVENUE WAS CHARGED WITH ONE COUNT EACH OF SIMPLE ASSAULT AND RECKLESSLY ENDANGERING ANOTHER PERSON PURSUANT TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAWS.POTTSVILLE POLICE SAY THAT MICKSHAW WAS INVOLVED IN A VERBAL ARGUMENT WITH HIS WIFE AROUND 6 30 MONDAY EVENING WHICH ESCALATED INTO THE ASSAULT.MICKSHAW WAS ARRAIGNED VIA VIDEO CONFERENCE AT SCH. COUNTY PRISON BY DISTRICT JUDGE STEPHEN BAYER AND RELEASED ON HIS OWN RECOGNIZANCE BAIL.


08/14/07
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A POTTSVILLE MAN WAS CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING HIS 20 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER WHILE SHE WAS HOLDING HIS 3 YEAR OLD GRANDDAUGHTER ACCORDING TO POTTSVILLE POLICE.51 YEAR OLD ROBERT MICKSHAW OF HOWARD AVENUE WAS CHARGED WITH ONE COUNT EACH OF SIMPLE ASSAULT AND RECKLESSLY ENDANGERING ANOTHER PERSON PURSUANT TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAWS.POTTSVILLE POLICE SAY THAT MICKSHAW WAS INVOLVED IN A VERBAL ARGUMENT WITH HIS WIFE AROUND 6 30 MONDAY EVENING WHICH ESCALATED INTO THE ASSAULT.MICKSHAW WAS ARRAIGNED VIA VIDEO CONFERENCE AT SCH. COUNTY PRISON BY DISTRICT JUDGE STEPHEN BAYER AND RELEASED ON HIS OWN RECOGNIZANCE BAIL.