Citizen identifies
wanted person
Pottsville police have obtained an arrest warrant for a 29-year-old man stemming from an April 5 incident involving a counterfeit $50 bill.
Police said it was originally reported that a man entered a local store, used the counterfeit bill to make a small purchase and then left with the products and change.
It was later discovered that the bill used was originally a $5 made to look like a $50 bill, police said.
Then, on April 22, police said they received information from a concerned citizen that identified the man who used the bill as Steven J. Platts, Pottsville.
The citizen identified Platts after seeing a picture published in The Republican-Herald and on the Pottsville police’s Twitter account, police said.
After receiving that information, police said, investigators confirmed Platts as the man responsible for using the counterfeit bill and on Wednesday filed a criminal complaint with Magisterial District Judge James K. Reiley charging Platts with felony forgery and misdemeanor crimes of theft by deception and receiving stolen property.
A warrant was then issued for the man’s arrest, police said.
Man arrested after
argument in gym
TOWER CITY — A Tamaqua man was arrested Thursday after an argument where he later allegedly pointed a gun at someone.
The incident took place at 7:20 a.m. April 21 on Reiner School Road, Rush Township.
State police at Lykens said Kyle Lee Boyer, Tamaqua, had a verbal argument with a man from Dornsife inside a gym. The argument escalated, and Boyer allegedly grabbed a gun and pointed it at the man, police said. Boyer then left the area only to return minutes later, where he was arrested.