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Motorist disrobes following vehicle stop
During his arraignment before District Judge Denise Dieter on city police charges of DUI and disorderly conduct, 38-year-old Jessie Lopez told her "Today was a bad night. I was upset. I stripped my clothes to let them know I was not a danger," court papers stated. Driving a 2012 Chevrolet Impala, Lopez, of 1113 Penn St., was stopped in the 1000 block of West Fourth Street for passing a vehicle in a no-passing zone about 9:20 p.m. on Wednesday,
"I could smell a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from him," an officer wrote in an affidavit. After he was asked to step out of the car, Lopez "began to strip his clothes off. When he started to take his pants off, he was handcuffed and detained," police said. Unable to perform field sobriety tests due to his level of intoxication, Lopez was taken to UPMC Williamsport to submit a blood sample. There was no information on whether such a sample was obtained. While at the hospital, Lopez "began to yell ..to the point that he was scaring other patients. He made several spontaneous utterances, including he was 'sippin and trippin' and drinking shots of Tequila," the affidavit stated.
"He needs to sleep this off," the officer said of Lopez during the proceedings before Dieter. "He has been yelling and screaming for the last hour," the officer added. Lopez, who was charged last year with misdemeanor offenses for bringing a handgun to the Williamsport Middle School in late September, was committed to the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $20,000 bail.
City man charged with resisting arrest
On the afternoon of Aug. 2, Jay Kilheeney called city police to his home at 123 Parkwood St. to report a criminal matter. However, when it was all over, it was the 59-year-old Kilheeney who was taken to police headquarters in handcuffs, according to an affidavit filed at Biichle's office. As soon as an officer pulled up at the house, Kilheeney began yelling obscene and vulgar remarks to him, the affidavit stated. His yelling drew the attention of neighbors and his wife, who came out of the couple's home, police said. "Kilheeney smelled strongly of an alcoholic beverage," the officer wrote in the court document. "He aggressively approached me on several occasions and yelled in my face," the officer added.
"Due to Kilheeney's ongoing course of conduct, another officer on the scene approached him on his porch and told him to place his hands behind his back. 'I am not putting (expletive) behind my back,' and subsequently tensed his arms up in resistance," the affidavit stated. Kilhenney was taken to the pavement and handcuffed, police said, adding that during the struggle, the officer's elbow struck a door window, shattering it. While en route to the police station, Kilheeney made several more remarks such as "I resisted zero. I had my hands in the air like I was (a racial slur was used)," and "I hope they (expletive) your son right in the mouth."
Charged with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, harassment and public drunkenness, Kilheeney waived his preliminary hearing before District Judge Aaron Biichle and was free on $5,000 bail.
Seven face drug charges in six
separate case
Leaning his head against his dad's back, the distressed juvenile, visibly crying, watched as his 44-year-old father, Thomas Edward Perry, sold one gram of crack cocaine to an informant on the front porch of Perry's home at 34 W. Central Ave. in South Williamsport on Oct. 24, it was alleged in an affidavit filed by the county's Narcotics Enforcement Unit. Investigators alleged that Perry obtained the crack cocaine for the sale from David Martin Lodewyks, 33, formerly of Arch St., now living at 1070 Vine Ave., who drove to Perry's home in his black Ford Explorer and handed him the drugs after Perry stepped out of his house, briefly got into the SUV and then immediately returned to his home. "Lodewyks is a known drug dealer who has delivered crack cocaine to numerous informants throughout the city. On each occasion, Lodewyks uses his SUV to meet with informants, who were then directed to enter the vehicle and conduct the delivery (allegedly with him), court records stated.
The narcotics unit believes Lodewyks's city address on Vine Ave. is "a known drug house with numerous individuals operating an illegal cocaine enterprise from the residence. Numerous individuals have utilized the same Explorer to transport the product and meet with drug users to conduct the sale of cocaine," the affidavit stated.
Lodewyks, who also has had drug arrests in March and July of this year and September 2020, was arraigned last week before Dieter on one felony charge of delivery of a controlled substance and jailed in lieu of $85,000 bail. Perry, who told the judge that "I love my kids a lot," was arraigned on charges of endangering the welfare of a child and delivery of a controlled substance, was jailed in lieu of $90,000 bail.
In another drug case altogether, Lester Seamon, 66, of 3459 Quenshaque Road, Linden, has been jailed on charges of possession with intent to deliver, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia after state police seized 27 ounces of marjuana, including four marijana plants at his Anthony Township home on Oct. 13, according to court records. Following his recent arraignment before District Judge Kirsten Gardner, Seamon was jailed in lieu of $25,000 bail.
In another case, more drug charges have been lodged against Donald Lee Baker Jr., 65, after the Lycoming Regional police seized 14.5 grams of methamphetamines, a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia from his bedroom at 377 Old Route 220 in Piatt Township, while executing a search warrant there on Sept. 9, according to court records at Dieter's office. In an interview with investigators, Baker admitted that he was "just trying to make a buck," and that he was sellings drugs to supplement his income since losing his previous job, police said in an affidavit. The search warrant was obtained after Baker allegedly sold methamphetamine to another man on Sept. 8. Following his arraignment before Dieter on the new set of charges, Baker was recommitted to the county prison in lieu of an additional $75,000 bail.
In another case, Amber Lynn Halderman, 38, of State College, has been charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia for having seven ecstasy pills and and just under a gram of powder cocaine at Third and Memorial avenues on May 5, city police alleged. She has since waived her preliminary hearing before Biichle and is free on $10,000 bail.
In another case, Jessie Cooper, 65, of 2104 Cummings St., has been charged with delivery of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance after she gave fentanyl to another woman, a friend, who suffered "the spins" and was taken to UPMC Williamsport after she overdosed near Fifth and Memorial avenues in mid-May 2022, city police said. "I have something for you," Cooper told the woman after the friend asked her "if she had any Tylenol," police said in an affidavit . Cooper gave the woman "a broken in half yellow pill. She asked Cooper what it was. Cooper told her she would be fine. She trusted Cooper and took it," and soon became ill, police said. Arraigned before Gardner, Cooper was released on $50,000 bail.
In another case, Dawn Strickland, 61, of 138 East Mechanic St., Muncy, has been charged by Muncy police with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia after nearly three grams of methamphetamine were found in her apartment on Sept. 10, court records stated. She has waived her preliminary hearing and is free on $5,000 bail.
Muncy area man charged with
indecent assault
Joshua Allen Johnson, 30, of 528 Ruben Kehrer Road, lot 148 Muncy, has been charged with indecent assault and corrupting the morals of a minor for allegedly having inappropriate contact with a female minor in the 600 block of Sixth Avenue on Sept. 20, city police said. He has waived his preliminary hearing and is free on $50,000 bail.