A second person, Clyde Francis Burgit, 34, has been arrested on jailed on three felony counts of endangering the welfare of child as a result of deplorable living conditions discovered in his apartment at 412 Third Ave., where he lived with his fiance, Beth Ann Gosnay, and her three children, according to city police. The discovery was made on Jan. 18, when officers respond to the apartment for a domestic disturbance in which Burgit is alleged to have “engaged in threatening and tumultuous behavior towards” a victim, according to a criminal complaint. Burgit faces an additional misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct charge, police said. Following his recent arraignment before District Judge Christian Frey, Burgit was committed to the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail. Gosnay, 41, was arrested on Jan. 18 on the felony charges and remains incarcerated in lieu of $15,000 bail. The children, who ranged in ages of 3-months to 2 years old, are in protective custody, according to investigators.

In another case, Markesha Renea Jordan, 32, of 957 Market St., faces three felony counts of endangering the welfare of a child after it was alleged that she allowed her children, two of whom were under the age of 6, to have easy access to loaded handguns and drugs that detectives assigned to the the county’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit seized when they executed a search warrant at her then-home in the 800 block of Second Street on Jan. 31, 2024, according to an affidavit. Jordan was arraigned last week before District Judge Aaron Biichle and released on $50,000 bail. Timothy Easter, a co-defendant in the case, has already been arrested in the case.