Pursuit ends in crash, arrest of Wilkes-Barre man
WILKES-BARRE A 19-year-old man driving a stolen vehicle initiated a pursuit that began in Wilkes-Barre and ended with crashing into parked vehicles in the area of Old Newport and Center streets in N
Wilkes-Barre man hit with more child pornography charges
WILKES-BARRE Weeks before Joshua Edwards was arrested on allegations a video was uncovered on his laptop computer showing him exposing a girl s private parts, he allegedly searched child pornography
Look Back: Wilkes-Barre paid to quarantine leprosy family
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Luzerne man charged with stealing steaks
PRINGLE Kingston police refiled charges against a Luzerne man accused of stealing six Delmonico steaks by force from Gerrity s Supermarket in January.
‘Where’s the weed, who got my weed?’
WILKES-BARRE City police arrested a Hanover Township man they say waved a firearm inside a residence yelling, Where s the weed, who got my weed?
Police: Plains Township man sent pictures of genitals to teen
FAIRVIEW TWP. A Plains Township man was charged with corrupting the morals of a teenage girl by sending her pictures of his genitals and taking the teen to his apartment without her parents permissi
Kingston police arrest man accused of driving stolen vehicle
KINGSTON Police recovered a vehicle reported stolen earlier this year and arrested a man they say was the driver.
Hanover Township police searching for man, charged with child sex offenses
HANOVER TWP. Township police said they are searching for Mark Mitchell-Switzer, 30, on charges he sexually assaulted a girl.
Ratowski charged third time with child sex offense
NANTICOKE Luzerne County detectives charged an Edwardsville man for the third time on child sex offenses since late January with the latest criminal filing alleging he rubbed the buttocks of a girl.
Hazleton man sentenced to federal prison on drug trafficking charges
SCRANTON A man from Hazleton was recently sentenced to more than four years in federal prison on charges he peddled heroin and fentanyl for nearly a year.
Police: Man threatens district judge during arraignment
WILKES-BARRE A man from Warrior Run arrested by city police on allegations he threatened another man at a South Main Street business allegedly threatened to harm a district judge during a court proc
Sugarloaf Township police arrest Carlisle man on child sexual assault offenses
SUGARLOAF TWP. Township police and Luzerne County detectives arrested a man from Cumberland County on charges he sexually assaulted a boy for several years.
Child endangerment charges filed against mother, boyfriend
RICE TWP. A mother and her boyfriend arrested last month on allegations they neglected her 6-year-old son who was severely underweight were arraigned Tuesday on charges they endangered their other c
Police charged Kingston man with exposing himself to mother, daughter
WILKES-BARRE City police said they charged John W. Gittens, 62, with exposing himself to a mother and her 7-year-old daughter in a parking lot on Hanover Street.
Man charged with fleeing scene of 2019 vehicle crash
FORTY FORT A man from Wilkes-Barre was arraigned on charges he fled the scene after crashing into two vehicles injuring a then 76-year-old woman on the North Cross Valley Expressway nearly two years
Look Back: Mine subsidence swallows Wyoming post office in 1897
Residents of Wyoming were thrown into a state of consternation the evening of March 1, 1897, when the town s post office and several adjacent buildings became victims of a mine subsidence.
Wilkes-Barre man arrested on drug trafficking charge
HANOVER TWP. A man from Wilkes-Barre was arrested Thursday by township police and agents with the Luzerne County Drug Task Force on several felony drug trafficking offenses.
Berwick man charged with criminal homicide in Hazleton beating death
HAZLETON City police Friday elevated the charges filed against Joshua Hugh Keziah, 32, following the death of another man earlier this month from an assault.
Woman charged with endangering children after drug laced Fruity Pebbles bars, candy found
NEWPORT TWP. Three children younger than 10-years-old were inside a residence when authorities discovered Fruity Pebbles bars, gummy bears and graham bars laced with cannabis earlier this week, acco
Police: Man enters apartment believing ‘Feds’ after him
PLYMOUTH A man believing the Feds were after him burglarized a residence and demanded clothing before police found him hiding in a bedroom closet Thursday night.