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Review: Annual NEPA Holiday Show at Scranton Cultural Center a homecoming party for The Menzingers, Tigers Jaw

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Happy birthday to Teddie Marie Clossen!

<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; A woman whose drug-induced struggle with a police officer last year resulted in the officer being stabbed with a used syringe was sentenced on multiple charges Monday in Luzerne County Court.</p><p>Kristen Nicole Dudzik, 33, was sentenced to 81 months to 15 years in prison on charges of aggravated assault and resisting arrest, as well as unrelated charges of theft, robbery, public drunkenness, possession of drug paraphernalia and child endangerment.</p><p>According to a criminal complaint, police responding to a report of a possible overdose last October at the Sherman Hills Apartment Complex had said Dudzik, of North Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, stabbed an officer with an uncapped hypodermic needle after the officer tried to pry Dudzik&#8217;s purse from her.</p><p>The purse hit the officer in the struggle and the needle pierced his inner thigh, the complaint says.</p><p>Dudzik, who was found to be in possession of other drugs and needles, had told police she had hepatitis C. The officer was later treated at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital.</p><p>It wasn&#8217;t Dudzik&#8217;s only brush with local law enforcement.</p><p>In April, <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/uncategorized/8094/wilkes-barre-woman-arrested-for-robbery-in-plains-township" target="_blank">Wilkes-Barre Township police charged Dudzik with robbing Donna&#8217;s Convenient Mart on River Street</a>, and she previously had been charged with theft, child endangerment and public drunkenness in 2014 <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/archive/224071/news-blotter-1497596-police-blotter-2" target="_blank">after she tried to steal a pair of jean shorts from Boscov&#8217;s in Wilkes-Barre</a> while with her two young children.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Joe Dolinsky</p><p>jdolinsky@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Joe Dolinsky at 570-991-6110 or on Twitter @JoeDolinskyTL</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Wilkes-Barre woman gets up to 15 years for multiple charges, including stabbing police officer with syringe