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JIM THORPE – A 21-year-old White Haven woman died after a vehicle she was riding in crashed early Sunday morning on state Route 903, borough police said.
Lisa M. Gavinski was ejected from the vehicle and thrown down a steep embankment about 40 feet from the highway, said borough police Patrolman Todd Leslie. She was pronounced died at Gnaden-Huetten Hospital.
The driver, a 21-year-old female from Penn Forest Township, was also thrown from the vehicle, Leslie said. She was in critical condition at Lehigh Valley Hospital, he said. He would not release her name.
The women were northbound around 2:35 a.m. when the driver lost control of the vehicle, which became airborne and flipped onto its roof, Leslie said.
He said another northbound vehicle subsequently hit the overturned vehicle. No injuries were reported, but he could not give any more details about that accident.
HAZLE TWP. – A New York City man who skipped out on bail from a previous arrest was re-apprehended and charged with new offenses after an off-duty state trooper recognized him on Sunday outside a department store, state police reported.
Richard Collin Moore, 20, also known as Quentin C. Morris or “Game,” was wanted on an outstanding bench warrant for a preliminary hearing on Tuesday at which he failed to appear. He had been lodged at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility, but had posted $3,000 bail and was released.
Around 2:45 p.m., the off-duty trooper noticed Moore sitting on a bench outside J.C. Penney, and within five minutes other troopers had arrived. Moore began to flee on foot through the parking lot but was eventually taken into custody inside the Boscov’s store.
While searching Moore, troopers found 22 individual packets of suspected heroin in his left front jacket pocket and $232 in cash.
He was charged with a felony count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance, resisting arrest and attempted escape.
He was arraigned and sent to LCCF for lack of $30,000 bail to await his preliminary hearing at 9 a.m. Feb. 6 at county Central Court.
WILKES-BARRE – Fire broke out at a Noble Lane residence under renovation on Sunday morning, but the home was vacant at the time, according to fire Assistant Chief Bruce Reilly.
Reilly reported that around 9:33 a.m., “Somebody was running down the street screaming there was a fire” and that “flames (are) coming out the windows” of 152 Noble Lane, a single-family home being refurbished.
The fire was under control by 10:11 a.m. Officials are still investigating the cause.
One firefighter fell through a hole in the first-floor kitchen, but was uninjured.
NORTH UNION TWP. – Sharon Jesse of Nuremburg in Schuylkill County reported around 7:25 p.m. Saturday that a second-floor window at her 810 Main St. residence was smashed with an unknown projectile, state police reported.
Troopers are still investigating and ask that anyone with information call state police at Frackville at 800-305-9685.
WILKES-BARRE – James Hooker reported around 10:55 a.m. Jan. 19 that his computer was hacked into and personal data and programs were removed while the machine was at 250 Bowman St., city police reported.