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Thursday, December 22, 1994 Page: 14A
HUNLOCK TWP. — Two 14-year-old Wilkes-Barre girls in a stolen car were
slightly injured Wednesday morning when the car collided with a another
vehicle at the intersection of U.S. Route 11 and state route 4016.
The teens were treated and released at Berwick Hospital. Robert Granick of
Kingston, who drove the second vehicle, and his passenger refused treatment.
Police did not provide the passenger’s name.
On of the teens was driving a 1991 Oldsmobile which had been reported
stolen by Wilkes-Barre police on Tuesday. The Oldsmobile pulled onto Route 11
from 4016 directly in the path of Granick’s Mercury sedan, police said.
Police said they caught the two teens as they attempted to flee.
The teens will be petitioned to Luzerne County Juvenile Court.
Teen drug suspect to stand trial as adult
WEST PITTSTON — An 18-year-old man who allegedly sold marijuana to
undercover police when he was 17 will stand trial as an adult, police said.
Upper Luzerne-Lower Lackawanna Counties Drug Task Force investigators say
James Saia of Fourth Street, West Pittston, sold undercover narcotics police
$60 worth of marijuana on Sept. 2 in West Pittston and another $60 worth of
the drug on Sept. 12 in Wyoming, police reported.
Police classify Saia as a “street-level dealer.”
Police initially charged Saia as a juvenile and filed juvenile court
petitions against him with the Luzerne County Juvenile Court on Nov. 14.
Luzerne County Orphans’ Court Judge Chester Muroski issued an order to
allow prosecutors to try Saia as an adult last Friday.
Saia, who will be formally arraigned in February, will be charged with two
counts each of possession of a controlled substance and possession of a
controlled substance with the intent to deliver.
Saia was taken to the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in Wilkes-Barre
after his adult certification hearing in lieu of $5,000 bail.
Township official hit
WILKES-BARRE — A Plains Township commissioner was punched in the nose
Monday afternoon at his auto detailing shop, police said.
Thomas Kovalick was assaulted at The Beauty Shop, Gildersleeve Street,
police said.
Kovalick gave police the name of a possible suspect. The incident is being
investigated by detective Tino Andreoli. Police did not release the name of
the suspect.