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SUGAR NOTCH – A Plymouth woman faces numerous charges after a traffic stop on July 12.
Sugar Notch Patrolman Peter Lakkis was directing traffic and crossing pedestrians at Main and Brook streets during the Holy Family Church bazaar when a motorist stopped and told him about a motorist driving erratically in a red Pontiac Sunfire, according to a criminal complaint.
Lakkis saw the driver nearly strike a parked vehicle and pedestrians and cross solid double yellow lines on the roadway, according to the complaint.
Lakkis performed a traffic stop at Main and Connor streets and observed that the driver, Stephanie Kocher, 24, of 110 Smith Row, Plymouth, appeared confused and had unusually small pupils, according to the complaint. He also observed Q-tips in a vehicle cup holder and a small, white glassine bag on the floor – items commonly used when ingesting heroin.
Kocher denied drinking alcohol or ingesting narcotics, telling Lakkis she has been “clean for a while” and was on her way “to rehab in Nanticoke,” Lakkis said.
According to the complaint, after Kocher exited her vehicle, police recovered three metal spoons containing suspected heroin residue, one syringe, 10 white glassine bags containing suspected heroin residue, five blue glassine bags stamped in red with a picture of a devil’s face and the words “Black Devil,” Q-tips and dental floss, commonly used when ingesting heroin, from her vehicle.
Kocher was arrested and administered a blood alcohol test and a drug screen at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. She tested negative for alcohol and positive for Free Morphine, indicating heroin usage, according to the complaint.
Lakkis was charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence of a controlled substance, reckless driving, careless driving, failing to stay in her lane of travel and driving on the wrong side of the road.
HUNTINGTON TWP. – State police at Shickshinny said a 34-year-old woman and Patrick John Baran, 36, got into a verbal argument at their Mountain Road residence at about 10:10 p.m. on July 17.
Police said the argument became physical when Baran threw the victim onto the floor in the kitchen. He was charged by state police with harassment.
HANOVER TWP. – Township police are investigating the theft of numerous items from the Hanover Area Soccer League Building in the Preston section. Tools, chairs, flags and several kitchen items were reported missing Saturday.
NESCOPECK – Dennis Gerald Maisey, 24, of Nescopeck, was charged with retail theft after an investigation revealed that he stole a carton of cigarettes and five instant lottery tickets from the Short Stop convenient store at 8:42 p.m. on July 13, state police in Shickshinny said.
PLAINS TWP. – Police responded to a disturbance at a private club early Sunday morning.
Police were dispatched at 2:25 a.m. to the Hudson Serviceman’s Club, 47 Martin St., for a report of a large disturbance.
Upon arrival, police found numerous intoxicated people gathering on the street. Upon being advised to disperse, few of them did, police said.
While continuing an investigation of the disturbance, police said they observed a man exit the club with signs he was involved in a fight. Police said they determined the man was assaulted by another patron at the club, but the man refused to provide police with any information on who assaulted him or how he was assaulted.
Officers then had to instruct other patrons who were getting loud to leave the scene, police said.
WILKES-BARRE – City police reported the following:
• Swayne Sykes, of North Courtland Street, East Stroudsburg, told police at 4:30 p.m. Sunday that someone removed clothing and a shower curtain from 22 Terrace St.
• Stephen Lewis, 41, of Park Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, was cited with public drunkenness after an incident at South and South Welles streets at 2:45 p.m. Sunday, police said.
• Robert Lee West, 23, of Wilkes-Barre, was cited with public drunkenness after an incident at the Hardware Bar on South Main Street at 12:29 a.m. Sunday, police said.
• Timmothy Alsup, 41, of Auburn Boulevard, Sacramento, Calif., will be charged with disorderly conduct after police responded to a report of trespassing at 62 Willow St. at 5:06 p.m. Saturday and found that Alsup had argued with a resident there and used obscene language, police said.
• Brenda Tabino, 24, of Wilkes-Barre, was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving after a routine traffic stop on South Grant Street at 3:43 a.m. Saturday, police said.
BUTLER TWP. – Police reported the following incidents:
• Police are investigating a credit card fraud.
A 68-year-old man from Avalanche Lane in Beech Mountain Lakes reported that between April and July, more than $220 was fraudulently charged to his credit card account.
• Someone entered a unit under construction at a new town home development on Alliance Drive late Wednesday or early Thursday and removed a dishwasher, stove, valance and mirror. A similar burglary was reported at the development on Nov. 18.
• Danielle Stephans, 26, of South Butler Terrace Drive, was cited with disorderly conduct after an incident at about 9 p.m. Friday on South Butler Terrace Drive in the Pardeesville section of the township, police said.
• Phillip Hill, 18, of Philadelphia, was charged with terroristic threats and persistent disorderly conduct after an incident at the Youth services Agency on Foothills Drive on July 22, police said. Hill remains incarcerated at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility.
• Darren B. Fromkin, 41, of Hazleton, turned himself in to police on Wednesday shortly after a warrant was issued for his arrest, police said.
Fromkin was charged with an assault that occurred last Monday in the parking lot of a doctor’s office on West Foothills Drive, police said.