Williamsport man arrested following disturbance at store
More than 12 hours after his arrest on Wednesday night following a disturbance at the Mini Mart at 1037 High St., Colin M. Smith Jr. was still in no condition to be arraigned.
Appearing late Thursday morning before on-call District Judge Denise Dieter for the second time, Smith, 31, of 637 Second St. “broke down, cried and screamed,” according to court documents. Growling and facing a wall, Smith said “Stop (expletive) trailing me” as he jumped around, court records stated.
Wearing no shoes and no shirt, Smith was taken into custody about 7:30 p.m. outside the convenience market, and he appeared to be “heavily under the influence of a drug or drugs,” city police said in a criminal complaint.
Officers had been called to the business to investigate a report of a man who “threw a case of water at a clerk, nearly striking her in the face with it,” police said in an affidavit. That man, police said, allegedly was Smith, who walked into the store and “began harassing customers and yelling incoherently. He grabbed a liter of bottled water and drank it without paying for it,” police alleged.
“Smith then grabbed a case of water and walked out of the store. When the clerk told him he would have to pay for it, he walked back in the store and threw the case” at her, an officer alleged. He then picked up a two-gallon gas can inside the store and put it in his vehicle, police alleged. Smith, arrested without incident, had six Ecstasy pills with him, police said.
Appearing before Dieter about 90 minutes later on charges of simple assault, disorderly conduct, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, misdemeanor shoplifting, receiving stolen property and public drunkenness, Smith was ordered to the Lycoming County Prison after he was ruled unfit for arraignment. He remained locked up at least a second night after Dieter determined Thursday he was still unfit.





