Police Blotter

HANOVER TWP. – A man was flown to an area hospital after a construction accident on Penobscot Mountain on Wednesday morning, township police said.

Police said the man was walking alongside a flatbed trailer being pulled by a truck tractor when a forklift became detached and fell on him at about 10:30 a.m.

Police said a piece of equipment was being transported to the top of Penobscot Mountain by Ayers Towing Service, of Mountain Top, for Tower King II Inc.

A truck hauling a flatbed trailer became stuck in mud and a bulldozer was used to assist, police said.

The federal Occupational, Safety and Health Administration office in Wilkes-Barre was notified of the incident.

WRIGHT TWP. -- A man was charged Tuesday with threatening to kill his wife and two daughters and with firing a gun in their Church Road home during a domestic dispute, township police said.

James Warren, 45, was charged with three counts of harassment, two counts of simple assault and one count each of terroristic threats, discharge of firearm into an occupied structure and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was arraigned before District Judge Ronald Swank in Wright Township and released after posting $7,500 bail.

Police said they responded to the Church Road residence just after 8 p.m. Monday and learned Warren threatened to kill his wife and their two daughters during a dispute. Police said in the criminal complaint that Warren pushed his wife and grabbed a gun telling her, “Let’s do it baby, let’s end it all.”

Warren’s wife left the home and he threatened to kill his daughters if they didn’t find their mother, the criminal complaint says. Police said Warren fired a .22-caliber rifle in the basement of their home.

Police said after Warren was in custody they found a loaded .22-caliber rifle, a loaded shotgun and shotgun shells, a loaded .38-caliber handgun and a deer antler pot pipe in the home.

KINGSTON – A Wilkes-Barre man was charged Wednesday with selling cocaine to agents with the state Office of Attorney General’s Luzerne County Drug Task Force and police in Kingston and Swoyersville.

Joshua Henry McCoy, 22, last known address as Hutson Street, was charged with two counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, and one count each of possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and criminal use of communication facility. He was jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $5,000 bail.

Undercover agents arranged to purchase cocaine from McCoy, also known as Jay, at a Main Street tavern on Tuesday. McCoy entered the tavern, sat next to an agent and sold cocaine for $400, the criminal complaint says.

Police said in the criminal complaint the cocaine weighed 2 grams and tested positive for a controlled substance.

LARKSVILLE – A Larksville man was charged Wednesday with assaulting several officers during a disturbance at his ex-girlfriend’s residence.

John Zelinski Jr., 29, of West Luzerne Avenue, was charged with three counts each of aggravated assault and simple assault, and one count each of resisting arrest and defiant trespass. He was jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $5,000 bail.

Police were dispatched to a West Luzerne Avenue residence at about 5:15 a.m. when a woman claimed her ex-boyfriend, identified as Zelinski, refused to leave. The woman told police she ended their relationship and Zelinski moved out of the residence on Sunday. While she was getting ready for work, she heard tapping on a window and saw Zelinski standing on the rear porch.

Police found Zelinski sitting on the rear porch. He told officers he lived at the residence and wasn’t going to leave, the criminal complaint says.

Zelinski swung at officers, the criminal complaint says, and had to be forcibly detained by police.

HAZLE TWP. – State police at Hazleton said a coal company has reported approximately $25,000 in vandalism to its machines and equipment within the last two months.

Police said the latest mischief at Stockton No. 7, owned by Coal Contractors of Hazleton, occurred Sept. 27-28. Multiple windows on four machines were shot out by a person suspected of trespassing on the property by an all-terrain vehicle, police said.

Anyone with information about the vandalism is asked to contact state police at Hazleton at 459-3890.

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