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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; City police filed public drunkenness charges against four people in separate incidents on Monday and Tuesday:</p><p>&#8226; A Wilkes-Barre man is facing a public drunkenness charge after police say he was found outside a North End business intoxicated early Monday morning.</p><p>According to a police report, officers responded to a burglar alarm call at the North End Slovak Club on North Main Street at 2:51 a.m. Once there, they found Louis Witchey, 29, intoxicated outside the business.</p><p>Police filed charges of public drunkenness against Witchey.</p><p>&#8226; Police say they observed a man in a &#8220;heavily intoxicated state&#8221; on North Wilkes-Barre Boulevard at 11:40 p.m. Monday.</p><p>Police also discovered that the man, identified as Edward Gallagher, 41, of Plains Township, had an outstanding warrant from Luzerne County.</p><p>Gallagher was jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility on the warrant.</p><p>&#8226; Police were investigating an assault complaint on South Pennsylvania Avenue at 1:03 a.m. Tuesday when they encountered David Bowman, 36, of Wilkes-Barre, and found that he was allegedly intoxicated.</p><p>Police said they cited Bowman with public drunkenness.</p><p>&#8226; Miguel Vergara, 45, of Wilkes-Barre, was cited with public drunkenness after an incident at South Main Plaza at 10:48 p.m. Tuesday, police said.</p><style>
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Wilkes-Barre police make several public drunkenness arrests