Police investigate
2-vehicle crash
Pottsville police investigated a crash that occurred about 10:30 a.m. Monday in the northbound lanes of Route 61, just north of the intersection with Route 209.
Police said they determined that a 73-year-old Pine Grove woman was driving a Toyota Rav4 north in the right lane when a Lincoln Navigator driven by Gloria Beaver, 29, of Lost Creek, pulled into the highway from the parking lot of Pottsville Auto Parts and drove into her path.
The Pine Grove woman complained of chest pain and was taken to Schuylkill Medical Center-East Norwegian Street by Schuylkill EMS.
Beaver and her passenger complained of back pain but refused medical treatment at the scene, police said.
Both vehicles were towed from the scene and police said Beaver will be cited for Vehicle Code rules governing vehicles entered a roadway.
Man jailed
on warrant
TRENTON — A Mahanoy City man was jailed after being picked up by state police at Frackville on an outstanding warrant about 5:30 p.m. Saturday on High Road in Delano Township.
Police said while investigating an unrelated matter they encountered Robert M. Thomas, 37, and a subsequent check determined he was wanted on a warrant from Lebanon County Domestic Relations.
Thomas was taken into custody and transported to Lebanon County Prison, police said.
Summit Hill man
cited for litter
NEW PHILADELPHIA — A Summit Hill man is facing charges by state police at Frackville stemming from an incident about 7:40 p.m. Saturday on a railroad right-of-way, southwest of the intersection of Route 209 and Ridge Road in Blythe Township.
Police said they were investigating a private property crash and saw Scott Peterson place a glass bottle on railroad property.
A non-traffic citation against Peterson was filed with Magisterial District Judge David A. Plachko, Port Carbon, police said.
None injured in
1-vehicle accident
MAHANOY CITY — Two people escaped injury in a one-vehicle crash that occurred about 5:40 p.m. Sunday in the southbound lanes of Interstate 81, in the area of mile marker 126.7 in Ryan Township.
State police at Frackville said a 16-year-old Carlisle boy was driving a 2002 Buick Regal south in the left lane when he fell asleep, causing the car to go off of the road and strike a guide rail. The car continued south along the shoulder, damaging about 90 feet of guide rail before it became disabled when the passenger’s side wheel assembly and strut were torn off.
The teen and his passenger, Matthew S. Strub, 48, also of Carlisle, were not hurt and police said the teen will be cited for not driving on roadways laned for traffic as a result of the crash.
Man charged for
being drunk
WICONISCO — An Elizabethville man was charged by state police at Lykens with public drunkenness after an incident about 12:15 a.m. Thursday on Route 209, near Pottsville Street in Wiconisco Township, Dauphin County.
Police said Troy L. Miller, 38, will have to answer to the charge before Magisterial District Judge Rebecca Margerum, Elizabethville.
Police said Miller was walking along Route 209 when he was seen by a passerby stumbling into the roadway.
Police arrived and determined Miller was intoxicated. He was also charged with pedestrians under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances as a result of the incident.
Woman faces
felony charges
McADOO — A 45-year-old borough woman is facing felony charges of burglary, forgery and theft by McAdoo police in connection with incidents that occurred between Oct. 1 and Nov. 15.
Police said a woman reported that her elderly mother had been the victim of a theft and provided officers with 15 checks brought to her attention by First National Bank.
Police said it was apparent that several of the checks were not signed by the same person and also that several had been written while the woman was in a hospital.
It was determined that the person using the checks was the elderly woman’s former caretaker — Christine A. Segila — and after a lengthy investigation, that woman was interviewed and confessed with entering the elderly woman’s home with the intent of stealing the checks.
Segila then took the checks and wrote them out to herself without the owner’s permission, police said.
Segila will now have to answer to the charges against her before Magisterial District Judge Stephen J. Bayer, Tamaqua.
Woman faces
theft charges
ELIZABETHVILLE — A Lykens woman was charged with retail theft by state police at Lykens after an incident between 7 and 9 p.m. Feb. 16 at Wal-Mart in Washington Township, Dauphin County.
Police said Heather Overdier will have to answer to the charge before Magisterial District Judge Rebecca Margerum, Elizabethville.
Police said the woman tried to remove a pair of boots from the store without paying for the item.