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Five charged with drug offenses in separate cases

Duane Elliot Adams, 49, of Allentown, was jailed on charges of delivery of a controlled substance and illegal use of a cell phone for allegedly selling 10 fentanyl pills to an informant in the 300 block of Memorial Avenue, in the city on September 17, 2017. 10, this was alleged in an affidavit prepared by the county’s Drug Enforcement Unit (NEU). Presented before District Judge Aaron Biichle, Adams remains jailed in lieu of $85,000 bail.

In a separate case, Biichle also prosecuted Matthew Russell Smith for one count of delivery of a controlled substance after selling cocaine to an unidentified individual at 793 E. Third St. in the city on 30 August, an NEU detective alleged. in a court document. Smith remains jailed in lieu of $40,000 bail.

In another case, Johnathon Pedraza, 33, of Bellefonte, was charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, driving while intoxicated and two summary violations after state troopers discovered 119 grams of marijuana in a 2003 Mitsubishi Outlander that they impounded following a vehicle stop near East. Third and State streets in the city around 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 24, 2023, according to an affidavit. Police served a search warrant before searching the vehicle. When stopping Pedraza for a minor vehicle infraction, officers detected “a strong smell of marijuana” coming from inside the car, the court document states. Police said they suspected Pedraza was too impaired to drive safely. He refused to perform field sobriety tests and submit a blood sample, police said. Pedraza has since waived his preliminary hearing before Biichle and is free on $50,000 bail.

In another case, Dustin Michael Zink, 34, formerly of Beaver Lake Road, Hughesville, but now of Picture Rocks, was charged with possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) and possession of drug paraphernalia at East Third Street and Westminster Drive in Loyalsock. Township around 5:15 a.m. June 17, according to state police. Following his recent appearance before District Judge William Solomon, Zink was released on $5,000 bail in this case, but he is currently incarcerated in the county jail on another criminal matter.

In another case, Cindy Pruitt, 47, of Columbia Missouri, was charged with possession of cocaine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia as well as possession of a prohibited weapon (brass knuckles) after the items were found in his pickup truck during a traffic stop on Montgomery Pike in South Williamsport on May 28, state police said, adding that Pruitt gave consent for them to search the vehicle. She waived her preliminary hearing before District Judge Gary Whiteman and is free on $5,000 bond.

City man allegedly assaulted girlfriend while she was at work

Keynan Green, 30, of 610 Locust St., was jailed Monday evening after he broke into a home in the 500 block of Wyoming Street, attacked a caregiver – his girlfriend, by grabbing her hair and by pulling it through a sliding glass door. he made suicidal declarations, “indicating that he and the woman would die together”, this was alleged in an affidavit. Once on the back porch, Green allegedly punched the woman several times, police said. When the resident, in a wheelchair, tried to intervene, she suffered “two cuts on his left leg and an arm of his chair was broken”, the court document states. Green was taken into custody at the scene, but officers had to use “an important force” to put him in the back of a police car. Arraigned before Whiteman on charges of burglary, criminal trespass, terroristic threats, simple assault, resisting arrest, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, loitering, harassment and public drunkenness, Green, formerly of Montgomery, was jailed in lieu of a $25,000 bond.

Homeless man jailed for assault

When city police officers arrived at the scene of a reported assault near West Fourth and Race streets around 7:15 p.m. Monday, they found the male victim. “covered with a large quantity of blood on his face and hands”, according to an affidavit. The accused in the assault was Christopher David Williams, a 40-year-old homeless man who lives under the nearby West Fourth Street bridge over Lycoming Creek, police said. The victim said he was going to visit Williams, a friend of his, but when he arrived, Williams threw a folding chair at him and shouted that he was going to kill him.“, was stated in the court document. Williams then threw the man “on a rocky embankment,” which caused the sharp rocks to slice his palms and cut his face, it was claimed. Williams was taken into custody and arraigned before Whiteman on charges of aggravated and simple assault. He was jailed in lieu of $25,000 bail.

More charges filed against county jail inmate

Hughesville police filed 88 more charges of possession of child pornography against Christopher Michael Stout, 48, of 205 S. Second St., Hughesville, after investigators discovered 88 more photos or videos of “minors engaging in prohibited sexual acts” according to a criminal complaint filed in District Judge Kirsten Gardner’s office. Stout recently waived his preliminary hearing on all of these charges as well as 35 other charges related to this case that were filed in early September. He remains jailed in lieu of $95,000 bail.

Muncy-area driver charged with hit-and-run

Motorist Steven R. Derrick, 60, of 528 Ruben Kehrer Road, Lot 133, Muncy, was charged with crash involving damage to monitored vehicle (hit-run) after striking the rear of another vehicle on Fairfield Road near Lycoming Mall Drive in Fairfield Township around 9:20 p.m. on Aug. 1, but he left without providing information to the other driver, state police said in an affidavit. The driver she was struck had a license to drive the 2012 Nissan that hit her, police said. The Nissan was registered to Derrick. When a police officer went to Derrick’s home, he found the Nissan with damage consistent with involvement in a head-on crash. The hood of the car was hot, the officer noted in the court document. Derrick claimed responsibility for the damage to the Nissan “it happened a month ago” when he struck a deer, police said. Also charged with five summary offenses, Derrick waived his preliminary hearing before Whiteman and is free on $5,000 bail.

Two men charged in separate family disturbances

Donald McClain Homler, 44, of 673 Grier St., was charged with simple assault and false imprisonment following a domestic dispute at his home during which he attacked a woman who left him with a cut under left eye as well as other facial injuries. and armed on September 16, city police said in a court document. Homler is also accused of holding the woman in a bedroom and preventing her from leaving, police said. He has since waived his preliminary hearing before Biichle and remains jailed in lieu of bond.

In another domestic dispute handled by city police, Vincent Riley Peterson, 66, of 434 Center St., Apartment 3, was charged with simple assault and harassment after punching a woman in the face and beating her stomped on the chest when he came. The house was intoxicated around 7:45 p.m. on September 21, it was stated in an affidavit. It was alleged that Peterson cut off one of the woman’s fingers as they fought over a knife, which Peterson used with the apparent intent of harming himself, police said. After his arraignment that night in front of Salomon, Peterson was jailed, but has since been released on $35,000 bail.