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Monday, June 03, 1996 Page: 2A
JEFFERSON TWP. — Vandals went on a ride and crash spree at the Scranton
Municipal Golf Course overnight Saturday, driving four golf carts into wooden
signs, garbage cans and a golf ball cleaner, said state police at the Dunmore
barracks.
No value was given Sunday for damage the vandals caused. Police said the
course superintendent left the course at 10 p.m. Saturday, returned at 5 a.m.
Sunday and discovered the damage.
Police said the vandals also stole a water cooler.
Anyone with information about the incident should call state police at
Dunmore at 963-3156.
DUI patrol nets arrests
WYOMING — State police at the Wyoming barracks arrested two people on
drunken driving charges and issued 15 citations and six warnings to other
motorists during a roving drunken driving patrol overnight Saturday.
The roving drunken driving patrol was conducted in Luzerne County by
members of the state police patrol unit at Wyoming. The patrol occurred
between 10 p.m. Saturday and 3 a.m. Sunday.
Man arrested on suspicion of DUI
WILKES-BARRE — Police arrested a city man on the suspicion of drunken
driving early Sunday morning after his car jumped a curb near the Martin L.
Murray Heights Elementary School.
Police said Raymond Joseph Boyle of North Washington Street was eastbound
on East Market Street at 12:02 a.m. Sunday when he failed to stop at a stop
sign on South Hancock Street and continued 30 yards onto the sidewalk.
Boyle did not report any injuries, police said.
After failing field sobriety tests, Boyle was arrested on the suspicion of
drunken driving, police said.
Cellular phone stolen
WILKES-BARRE — A South Hancock Street resident reported the theft of
county-owned property from his car on Sunday.
Police said Joseph Thomas reported that someone stole a Uniden cellular
phone valued at $600 from his car Saturday night or Sunday morning.