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Following a one-vehicle crash in the 100 block of Via Bella about 10:20 p.m. on Nov. 6 , Joshua Schmincke, 19, of Greenland, Beach, Maryland, admitted to a city police officer that he had "around 10 shots" of liquor and that he "should not have been driving," according to an affidavit. His blood-alcohol concentration level at the time was .20, police said. Charged with DUI and careless driving, he is free on bail after waiving his preliminary hearing.
In another case, on the afternoon of July 13, with two children in her SUV, Erica Mae Kuntz, 30, of 974 Radio Club Road, Montoursville, drove to the state police barracks on Cherry Street in the borough while under the influence of several drugs, according to an affidavit.
When she walked into the barracks, she was interviewed about an undisclosed matter, and it was during that interview she admitted two troopers that she had taken "multiple (controlled) substances," and a trained police drug-recognition expert determined she was impaired, the affidavit stated. It was soon determined that she drove herself to the barracks with her children, police said. A blood test revealed more than half a dozen controlled substances were in her system, police said. Arraigned on charges of DUI of controlled substances and corrupting the morals of minors, Kuntz is free on $5,000 bail.
In another case, Sean W. Kurtz, 23, of 240 Brown St., South Williamsport, had a blood-alcohol concentration level of .23 when he crashed his 2016 Hyundai into a stop sign at West Southern Avenue and Linden Street in South Williamsport about 12:15 a.m. on Nov. 5, borough police said. When officers arrived on the scene, they saw the stop sign wedged in the abandoned car's wheel well, court records stated.
Kurtz had already been given a ride home by his girlfriend, police were told. Officers responded to the house, and during questioning Kurtz, who appeared "very visibly intoxicated," swayed "back and forth, and had to reposition his feet several times to maintain a stable footing," an officer wrote in an affidavit. "I could clearly detect a heavy odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from his breath," the officer said. Kurtz, who admitted to drinking alcoholic beverages, was not injured in the crash, police said. Charged with DUI and careless driving, he is free on $5,000 bail.