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Bail denied for two charged with assault

Threats were made, windows were smashed and gunshots were fired in what was described as an ongoing disturbance involving Lena Ann Jenkins and boyfriend Kyle Lee Crain, both of whom were arrested Monday night and jailed on no bail, city police said.

Officers rushed to the couple’s home at 1500 High St. about 6:30 p.m. to investigate a report of shots fired inside the house, Patrolman Brett Garbrick said in court papers.

Jenkins, 33, admitted to police that she fired a rifle first in the living room and then went upstairs where she fired three more shots in two different bedrooms, Garbrick said in an affidavit.

Police allege Jenkins fired four rounds in the direction of Crain, who was outside.

The woman told police that Crain, 32, had left the house earlier only to return a short time later, armed with a rifle and causing a disturbance outside, the affidavit stated.

Jenkins said she “confronted Crain through a window and told him that if he tried to get into the house, she would shoot him. Crain responded that he would shoot back at her,” Garbrick said the woman told police.

Garbrick said Jenkins “admitted to shooting at Crain’s truck once and at his car three times” while he was hiding behind the sedan.

Several minors were inside the home at the time and Jenkins told police that she warned the children “to stay in the hallway and duck, for she did not know if Crain would shoot back at her,” Garbrick said in the court document.

All this followed a disturbance at the home earlier in the day in which Crain was destroying property in the house belonging to Jenkins, including her 50-inch television set, Garbrick alleged. Jenkins was not in the house at the time, but got word from a relative that Crain was there causing damage.

Jenkins returned to the home armed with a mini sledge hammer and confronted Crain, who, upon seeing the hammer, “picked up one of two rifles in the corner of the (upstairs) room and pointed it at Jenkins,” Garbrick alleged.

As Jenkins turned and started to walk away, Crain allegedly “put the end of the rifle to the back of her head and told her ‘I’m going to blow your (expletive) brains out,'” it was alleged in the affidavit.

Jenkins then went downstairs, walked outside and smashed the windshield to Crain’s truck, Garbrick said.

When police arrived on the scene hours later at the shots-fired call, both Jenkins and Crain were taken into custody without incident. Jenkins has been charged with aggravated and simple assault, recklessly endangering, disorderly conduct, discharging a firearm within the city and harassment.

Crain faces charges of terroristic threats, recklessly endangering simple assault, disorderly conduct, criminal mischief and harassment. Both were arraigned before District Judge Jon E. Kemp and automatically placed in the Lycoming County Prison on no bail.

Five face drug charges in separate cases

A rental car, a large amount of cash and some drugs discovered in the vehicle all added up to misdemeanor charges being filed against a New York State man, who is suspected of trafficking narcotics in the 2020 Jeep Cherokee that he was driving, according South Williamsport police.

Michael Zutell, 46, of Niagara Falls, was stopped for speeding on Route 15 in the borough about 8:10 p.m. on April 6, police said in an affidavit.

Zutell said he was returning from York with the rental SUV, police said. After he gave his consent for police to search the Jeep, officers came upon two bags; one contained $5,860 wrapped in bundles and marijuana while the other had drug paraphernalia, the affidavit stated.

It was alleged the Zutell was using the Jeep as an instrument of crime to transport drugs and proceeds of illegal activities, police said.

Following his arraignment Monday before District Judge Gary Whiteman on charges of possession of an instrument of crime, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, Zutell was released on $5,000 bail.

In another drug case, city resident Craig Allison Laubach has been locked up on charged of allegedly selling methamphetamines or bath salts to either an informant or undercover on four occasions between May 4 and June 16, according to court records filed by the county’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit (NEU).

Laubach, 28, of 1229 Park Ave., sold the drugs on three occasions at West Fourth and Grier streets in the city, investigators alleged in court papers. Another sale took place in the 2000 block of Lycoming Creek Road in Old Lycoming Township, investigators said.

It was alleged he sold just over six grams of methamphetamines and less than a gram of bath salts, court records stated. Charged with four counts each of delivery of a controlled substance and illegal use of a communication device, Laubach was arraigned before District Judge Christian Frey and committed to the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail.

In another NEU case before Frey, recovering drug addict Paige Lafferty told authorities that even though she has been “sober” for about six months, she still sells “fentanyl to make money,” according to an affidavit.

Lafferty, 23, of 2137 1/2 W. Third St., has been charged with possession with intent to deliver heroin, possession with intent to deliver cocaine and delivery of cocaine.

The charges stem from her allegedly selling drugs to two people in her apartment on Oct. 20, and the seizure of cocaine that occurred later the same day when investigators raided the apartment, court records stated. She remains free on $15,000 bail.

In another case, Antonio J. Connelly, 40, of 839 High St., has been arraigned before Frey on a single NEU charge of delivery of a controlled substance for allegedly selling a crack cocaine to an informant near First and Park avenues on May 11. He remains jailed in lieu of $15,000 bail.

In another case, Keneef Bonaparte, 28, of Philadelphia, has been charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia on Northway Road in Loyalsock Township on Feb. 9, according to state police. He is free on $5,000 bail.