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AVOCA – An Avoca councilman has been charged by borough police with driving under the influence of alcohol stemming from an accident in August.
Police said Thomas P. Goul, 59, of 739 Spring St., struck a traffic sign with his truck and then drove away to avoid arrest in the 700 block of Main Street, Avoca, on Aug. 25. Police followed a trail of gasoline to Spring Street where Goul was found lying underneath his truck.
Goul faces two counts of first offense DUI and summary traffic citations for failure to drive within a single traffic lane, careless driving and driving without lights to avoid arrest.
A summons for those charges was issued Tuesday, according to court records.
Goul had a blood-alcohol content being at the highest rate of .244 percent, police said. An adult driver in Pennsylvania is considered intoxicated with a BAC of .08 percent.
A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Oct. 14.
WILKES-BARRE – Police arrested a man for allegedly carrying a concealed firearm without a valid permit early morning Friday.
Jamal Jackson, 19, whose address was not known, was arraigned and charged with firearms not to be carried without a license, a third-degree felony, court records show. He was jailed at Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $20,000 bail.
Police responded to 304 N. Empire Court for a report of four males outside an apartment building with guns and running towards Turkey Hill, Wilkes-Barre Township Boulevard.
Jackson, who was carrying a loaded .32-caliber revolver, was one of two males stopped by police near a wooded area between the convenience store and the Sherman Hills complex, according to arrest papers. Police released the other male who was with Jackson.
Jackson was transported to police headquarters where he gave officers several different dates of birth, police said. He also was unable to provide an address or social security number.
A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 10.
WILKES-BARRE – City police reported the following incidents:
Jerome Napario, 57, of Exeter, was arrested for public drunkenness after police alleged he was found to be intoxicated and causing a disturbance at 882 Kidder St. at 4:50 p.m. Thursday.
Police said Richard Brown, 60, of Edwardsville, was observed by a LCTA bus driver urinating on a wall on Public Square while the Farmers’ Market was going on around 2:40 p.m. Thursday. He was arrested for open lewdness and transported to police headquarters.
A woman reported on Thursday that she was walking her dog on Stanton Street where a pit bull attacked her dog. Animal enforcement will be filing charges against the dog owner.
Police filed charges against two men involved in a peach fight during the Farmers’ Market, Public Square, on Thursday morning.
Steven Dunn, of 59 Peach Drive, New Ringgold, alleged that Leo Wolfsberger, of Trucksville, purchased peaches from his stand and returned several minutes later upset at about 10:30 a.m., police said.
Police said Wolfsberger began squeezing the peaches and then throwing them at Dunn who then allegedly pushed Wolfsberger to the ground.
Wolfsberger was taken to Wilkes-Barre General Hospital for unknown injuries.
KINGSTON – A man was charged by police for allegedly threatening his mother and causing a disturbance in an apartment building on Thursday night.
Christopher J. Cavanaugh, 42, last known address 230 Wyoming Ave., was arraigned Friday morning on three counts of disorderly conduct and one count of resisting arrest, court records show. He is jailed at the correctional facility for lack of $2,000 bail.
Police alleged in arrest papers that Cavanaugh threatened his mother, Carol Flannery, and yelled obscenities causing other tenants to be alarmed at 230 Wyoming Ave. around 11:30 p.m.
Cavanaugh also is accused of being disorderly with officers and resisting arrest, police said.
A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 9.
ROSS TWP. – State police at Shickshinny said two people were sent to a local hospital for injuries in a one-vehicle crash Friday morning.
Jennifer L. Bennett, 24, of Springville, driver of a 2005 Chevrolet Classic, was traveling west on Route 118 when her vehicle traveled off the road and struck a traffic sign and sideswiped a utility pole, police said.
Bennett’s vehicle also struck the front end of a small post with a mailbox, a legally parked truck along the berm and a small tree, police said.
Police said the vehicle was towed by Maransky’s Towing.
Bennett and her passenger, a 1-year-old infant, were transported for unknown injuries to Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Plains Township.
FOSTER TWP. – An unknown person removed a large amount of rubberized copper wire from Hazleton Materials sometime Thursday or Friday.
Two types of wire were taken – one was a thick wire with three wires inside the rubberized tubing and the other wire was a smaller size in diameter, according to state police at Hazleton. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the barracks at 459-3890.