Cops: Teen threatens Ciavarella

An 18-year old Wapwallopen woman told a counselor at a juvenile detention facility that she was going to blow up a Luzerne County judge’s home for sentencing her to jail time, state police said in arrest records.

The threat was never carried out, police said, but the judge, Mark Ciavarella, considered it serious.

Police charged Sarah Marie Myers, of Fire Hall Road, with retaliation against a prosecutor or judicial official, threatening to place or set weapons of mass destruction and terroristic threats. She was arraigned by District Judge John Hasay of Shickshinny on Thursday afternoon and remained jailed Friday at the county correctional facility for lack of $35,000 straight bail.

Even if Myers posts bail, she’ll likely remain behind bars because of an unrelated case.

Myers had been free on $2,500 unsecured bail for allegedly assaulting a state trooper who responded to a burglary on Jan. 29.

In that case, arrest records say, Myers’ younger brother had entered a neighbor’s home uninvited. Police became concerned because there were firearms inside.

Myers stood out front and refused police orders to leave. She cursed and fought with a trooper until she was arrested, arrest records say.

District Attorney Jacqueline Musto Carroll said Friday that Assistant District Attorney James McMonagle will soon file a petition in county court to revoke Myers’ bail stemming from the January case in which she faces simple assault charges.

“(McMonagle) is on top of this, he’s working on it as we speak,” Musto Carroll said.

According to arrest records filed Thursday by state police Cpl. John G. Richards:

A counselor at a juvenile detention facility in Butler County contacted state police on Tuesday and relayed that she had received a phone call from Myers, a previous resident at the facility.

Myers told the counselor, “I am going to blow up Judge Ciavarella’s house” in retaliation for ruining her life and “always putting her away,” arrest records say.

The counselor told police Myers had indicated she had been on the street where Ciavarella resides on a previous night, police said in arrest records.

Police advised Ciavarella of the threat made by Myers. Ciavarella told police that he was aware of Myers from court proceedings and felt any threat by Myers was serious to him and his family, arrest records say.

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Sarah Marie Myers of Wapwallopen allegedly tells counselor at detention facility of plans to blow up judge’s home due to jail sentence.

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