Muncy area man jailed on charges of allegedly assaulting a child

James Allen Savage Jr., 29, of 1635 Route 442, lot A11, Muncy, has been jailed on assault-related charges after striking a 5-year-old child in the head with a metal marijuana grinder during a domestic disturbance with his girlfriend at the couple’s home about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, state police alleged in a criminal complaint.

The assault “caused a severe laceration to the boy’s head which required multiple stitches” to close, police said. The victim was treated at Geisinger Medical Center near Pennsdale.

Savage admitted that he was angry with his girlfriend and “in the course” of throwing the grinder, it hit the child, police were told. An affidavit further stated that Savage told the medical staff that the boy suffered the head injury in a fall.

Following his arraignment before District Judge William Solomon on charges of aggravated and simple assault, endangering the welfare of a child, recklessly endangering and harassment, Savage was committed to the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $75,000 bail.

Limestone Township man locked up on charges following domestic disturbance

Roger A. Willits Jr., 59, of 442 Little League Road, Jersey Shore, was charged with simple assault and harassment after allegedly punching his wife multiple times in the face in the couple’s Limestone Township home about 10:15 a.m. on May 20, according to state police.

“There was fresh bruising under her left eye, and the left side of her face was swollen and red,” a trooper said in describing the woman’s injuries.

Following his arraignment before Solomon, Willits was jailed in lieu of $50,000 bail.

County prison inmate face new set of charges involving threatening emails

Lycoming County Prison inmate George Henry Whaley faces felony charges of terroristic threats, retaliation against a judicial official and related offenses for “sending or causing an email to be sent that stated ‘Kill, Shot Notice” to the county’s clerk of courts and county Judge William Carlucci, it was alleged in an affidavit filed by a county detective on May 4.

When the emails were actually sent was unknown, but the county detective was assigned the case in mid-April.

Such emails or notices are considered “pseudo-legal threats or declarations intended to use ‘paper terrorism’ as fraudulent, nonsensical or threatening documentation to intimate public officials,” it was stated in an affidavit.

Whaley, 64, whose last known address was of the 600 block of Campbell Street in the city, has been incarcerated on other unknown legal matters.

However, he was arrested in mid-September 2024 and jailed on no bail on a charge of obstructing the administration of law for refusing to allow state troopers to fingerprint him at the barracks in Montoursville.

“You will have to shoot me and force me to get my fingerprints and take photos of me,” he allegedly told the troopers. The disposition of this case was unknown Wednesday night.