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Our Opinion: Make ‘Night Out’ activities part of ongoing dialogue between you and police

<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; As federal, state and local law enforcement officers searched the area for a kidnapped teenage girl that prompted an Amber Alert on Friday, court records say she and her alleged abductor watched television inside a hospital.</p><p>Walter Lewis, 21, and Jenea Patterson, 16, were in a day room on the sixth floor of Commonwealth Health Wilkes-Barre General Hospital &#8220;watching television all day,&#8221; according to court records.</p><p>Lewis and Patterson were later spotted in the adjacent parking garage by undercover Wilkes-Barre police officers. Police arrested Lewis after he was stunned by a Taser during a foot chase that ended near Hollenback Cemetery on North River Street.</p><p>Patterson was returned to her family, police said.</p><p>A criminal complaint charging Lewis with several firearm offenses and resisting arrest alleges they watched television all day in the sixth floor day room.</p><p>According to the complaint:</p><p>Employees at the hospital notified police that Lewis and Patterson issued in an Amber Alert left the facility at about 11:30 p.m. Police checked the area but were unable to find them.</p><p>Police reviewed surveillance video and positively identified Lewis and Patterson leaving the facility.</p><p>Undercover officers checked the parking garage spotting Lewis and Patterson.</p><p>Lewis initiated a foot chase and discarded a 9mm handgun. He ran out of the garage and across North River Street where he was nearly struck by a passing vehicle, the complaint says.</p><p>An officer deployed a Taser stunning Lewis near the cemetery.</p><p>Police said the handgun had an altered serial number.</p><p>The Amber Alert was issued Friday morning on reports Lewis abducted Patterson from a vehicle occupied by Guillermo Levine, 19, of Hanover Township, her 15-year-old sister and another person near Patterson&#8217;s residence in the Mineral Springs housing complex off Scott Street, Wilkes-Barre.</p><p>Police allege Lewis fired two rounds to prevent Patterson&#8217;s mother, Cyndi Angeles, 54, and Levine from following them.</p><p>Two days before the abduction, Angeles filed a Protection from Abuse petition for her daughter against Lewis in Luzerne County Court. Patterson had a relationship with Lewis and had been trying to get away from him for months, the petition says.</p><p>Police Chief Robert Hughes said Friday he believed Lewis was not served with the PFA because he has no fixed address.</p><p>Lewis was charged with three counts each with simple assault, terroristic threats and reckless endangerment, and one count each of kidnapping, receiving stolen property, flight to avoid apprehension, resisting arrest, possession of a firearm with an altered serial number, illegal possession of a firearm and persons not to carry a firearm without a license. He remained jailed Monday for lack of $300,000 total bail.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Walter Lewis </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/web1_Walter-Lewis-mug-8-1-15.jpg</photo0><caption0>Walter Lewis </caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/web1_Jeanea-Patterson-amber-alert-vic-7-31-151.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Jenea Patterson </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/web1_Jeanea-Patterson-amber-alert-vic-7-31-151.jpg</photo1><caption1>Jenea Patterson </caption1><photoCredit1></photoCredit1></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Ed Lewis</p><p>elewis@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Ed Lewis at 570-991-6116 or on Twitter @TLEdLewis</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Court records: Amber Alert victim, alleged kidnapper watched TV in hospital