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Convicted drug dealer arrested yet again
Some time ago, four-time convicted felony drug dealer Nicholas Etumnu cut off his ankle monitor and told his state parole agent "Come find me," according to an affidavit filed by the county's Narcotics Enforcement Unit. Well, on Wednesday afternoon, law enforcement caught up with the 36-year-old Philadelphia man after he sold cocaine to an informant from inside a city home at 410 ½ Louisa St., it was alleged in an affidavit.
Soon after the alleged sale, detectives saw Etumnu, whose street name is "Fat Nick," get in a vehicle and leave the scene, but he was quickly pulled over and taken into custody without incident. He had on him "a large amount of crack cocaine as well as powder cocaine," which he had concealed in his groin area, investigators said. Charged with two counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and one count of delivery of a controlled substance, Etumnu refused to answer any routine questions during the bail-hearing portion of his arraignment before District Judge Gary Whiteman, who committed him to the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $300,000 bail.
Two charged in separate disturbances
A domestic disturbance on Glover Street in Jersey Shore on Wednesday afternoon landed one woman in jail and another in the emergency room at UPMC Williamsport, according to Lycoming Regional police. Armed with a knife, Elda Jn Baptiste, 24, of 328 Glove St., is alleged to have charged toward a woman in the house during an argument about noon, police said. The victim, who also lives in the same house, locked herself in her bedroom, but Baptiste pounded on the door and told her to come out, police said in an affidavit. Fearing for her life and believing that Baptiste was about to break into the room at any moment, the woman jumped from a second-floor window, breaking one of her ankles, police said. A native of Haiti, the victim could not speak English, so police obtained the services of a translator. Baptiste was arrested and arraigned before Whiteman on charges of aggravated and simple assault, terroristic threats and harassment. She was committed to the county prison in lieu of $20,000 bail. The other woman was taken to the hospital to get medical treatment, police said. The two women were arguing over Baptiste's failure to "clean up after her dog," it was stated in the affidavit.
In another case, when the state trooper walked into the emergency room at Geisinger Pennsdale about 8:15 a.m. on July 26 to interview a woman who had been assaulted allegedly by her boyfriend he saw the victim covered with bruises from her forehead to her right ankle, according to an affidavit. The woman said the boyfriend, Gregory Gunsallus, 40 of 217 E. Mountain Ave., South Williamsport slapped her several times, punched her in the head and threw her to the floor, it was alleged in the court document. It was also alleged that Gunsallus "strangled" the woman several times, police said, adding that the assault occurred in the woman's Hughesville apartment. Taken into custody hours later at his home, Gunsallus admitted "there was a physician altercation" between him and the woman. Following his arraignment before District Judge Kirsten Gardner on charges of strangulation, simple assault and harassment, he was released on $35,000 bail.