Police say Loyalsock Township business operated as a house of prostitution

Another massage business – Green Spa and Massage at 1208 River Ave. in Loyalsock Township – has been accused of operating as a house of prostitution, according to state police which executed a search warrant at the property on Friday night, according to court papers. Two women from Flushing, New York employed at the business – Zhengmei Liu, 44, and Liao Longmei, 47 – were arrested on one felony and one misdemeanor count of promoting a house of prostitution. The warrant was executed after an undercover state trooper entered the business and both women allegedly offered to perform sexual acts for him in exchange for money, it was stated in an affidavit. Investigators seized several pieces of evidence as well as “a large sum” of money that were all indications that the business was “acting as a brothel,” police said. Both women were arraigned before District Judge Christian Frey and sent to the Lycoming County Prison on no bail. In May, Montoursville police raided two massage businesses in the borough that they said were houses of prostitution.

Two allegedly impaired drivers charged with fleeing police in separate cases

For several miles, Kelly Mae Kinley, driving a 2015 Ford Fusion, refused to pull over for a Lycoming Regional police officer who, with his cruiser’s emergency lights and siren activated, was attempting to stop her after she committed vehicle code violations in Jersey Shore about 10:15 p.m. on May 15, according to an affidavit. The license plate on the car was also expired, police said. During the pursuit, the 46-year-old woman’s car was “weaving back and forth between the lanes of travel,” the court document stated. Police said she was traveling in excess of the speed limit as well.

Finally, Kinley stopped when she arrived at her Crawford Township home at 4410 Pine Mountain Road in Clinton County, police said. “She exited the car, threw her hands in the air and asked ‘Why are you pulling me over,'” the court document stated. Kinley “performed poorly” during a series of field sobriety tests, police said. It was alleged that she was driving “while under the influence of a drug or a combination of drugs, impairing her ability to safely drive,” police said.

Kinley was arraigned hours later before District Judge Aaron Biichle on charges of felony fleeing police, DUI and four summary offenses. She was released on $15,000 bail.

In another case, Payton Alexander Weeks, of Olean, New York, took state police on a 20-mile pursuit early Saturday morning from Route 44 in Brown Township to Route 664 and Little Plum Run Road in Clinton County, where troopers forced him to stop the 2020 Chevrolet Suburban he was driving by conducting a precision immobilization maneuver, according to an affidavit.

Upon being taken into custody and questioned, the 28-year-old driver “was not making sense” and told troopers that he “did not stop due to there being a spider on the outside of the vehicle,” the court document stated.

Troopers determined that like Kinley, Weeks was under the influence of a drug or a combination of drugs, it was stated in a criminal complaint. It also turned out that the Suburban was stolen from the Coudersport area, police said. Faced with felony charges of fleeing police and receiving stolen property as well as DUI and three summary offenses, Weeks was arraigned before Frey and jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail.

Man jailed for attacking fellow resident at American Rescue Workers

Jacob Allen Schopfer, a 33-year-old resident of the American Rescue Workers on Elmira Street, has been locked up on assault related charges after he attacked another resident in the building on Friday night, punching him in the head, biting him on the right side of the face and strangling him by putting both hands around the victim’s neck, city police alleged in an affidavit. The assault only ended after other roommates intervened, police said. Investigators said Schopfer threatened to kill the man, who waited a day to tell staff about the incident. Following his arraignment Saturday before Biichle on charges of strangulation, terroristic threats, simple assault and harassment, Schopfer was jailed in lieu of $25,000 bail.