W-B men facing robbery charges Police Blotter

WILKES-BARRE – Two city men were arrested after they allegedly assaulted and robbed a man in the men’s room at Denny’s Restaurant on Scott Street on Tuesday.

Chester Williams, 26, of South Welles Street, and David D. Sisk, 20, of Custer Street, were charged with two counts of robbery. Williams was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, and Sisk was charged with receiving stolen property.

Police allege Williams and Sisk followed a man into the restaurant’s men’s room where they assaulted him and stole money, a cell phone, car keys and a bank card.

Police said the pair sped away in a vehicle driven by Joel Ryan Foster, 20, of Coal Street, Wilkes-Barre. The vehicle was stopped on Scott Street.

Foster was charged with robbery, criminal conspiracy and driving with a suspended license.

Williams, Sisk and Foster were arraigned by District Judge Martin Kane in Wilkes-Barre and jailed at the county prison for lack of $10,000 bail each.

WRIGHT TWP. – Township police have arrested two men in connection with the theft of two sets of state inspection and emission stickers from Steve Shannon Tire on Oct. 10.

Justin Barna, of Hanover Township, and Neil Cimakasky, of Nanticoke, were charged with theft, receiving stolen property and forgery, police said. While employed at Steve Shannon Tire, police said, Barna stole the stickers from an inspection book.

Barna then gave them to a friend, Cimakasky, who needed his vehicle inspected, police said.

Police said Cimakasky gave Barna rides to and from work frequently and showed up at the tire garage on Oct. 12 to pick up Barna. Other employees from Steve Shannon Tire noticed that Cimakasky’s vehicle was inspected and had the same dates as the stickers that were stolen.

Employees notified township police, and the vehicle was stopped in the parking lot of the shop.

BUTLER TWP. – A man was arraigned by township police on Wednesday on charges he assaulted his father with a bat.

Matthew P. Disabella, 27, of Deer Run Road, Drums, was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and harassment. He was jailed at the county prison for lack of $10,000 bail.

Police allege Disabella struck his father, Peter Disabella, with a bat during an argument at their residence on Tuesday, police allege.

A preliminary hearing is tentatively scheduled on Oct. 28 before District Judge Daniel O’Donnell in Sugarloaf.

JENKINS TWP. – An investigation of a suspicious vehicle in an alley near Main Street led to the arrest of two men accused of stealing tire rims from a locked trailer Tuesday night.

Jonathan George, 25, of Ann Street, Duryea, and Michael John Hoban, 36, of East Sunrise Drive, Jenkins Township, were charged with criminal conspiracy to commit theft, criminal trespass, receiving stolen property, possessing instruments of crime and criminal mischief.

Hoban was also charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving with a suspended license.

Township police said someone reported seeing a suspicious vehicle in an alley near 522 Main St. at about 8 p.m. Police said they found George and Hoban near the vehicle, which contained bolt cutters and various hand tools, according to the criminal complaint.