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Montoursville teen jailed following police pursuit

After striking a woman’s house on Warrensville Road in Warrensville with a 2014 Jeep Patriot about 3:15 a.m. Tuesday, motorist Wyatt James Johnston fled south, driving into Montoursville, where a state trooper, alerted to the hit-run crash, spotted him near Broad and Mill streets, according to an affidavit. The trooper noticed “heavy front-end damage” to the Jeep and activated his cruiser’s emergency lights in an effort to get the 18-year-old Johnston to stop. However, the teen accelerated, did a U-turn and traveled north a short distance before going off the road, striking ...

Three men arrested in separate domestic assaults

Upon investigating a domestic disturbance in Lewis Township on the afternoon of Feb. 28, state troopers saw that the female victim was “covered in mud with thorns stuck in her clothing,” and there were “fresh bruises on her left hand knuckles,” it was stated in an affidavit. The ...

Charge filed after subpoenaed witness failed to show for homicide trial

Although a subpoena was delivered to her on Sept. 9 for the upcoming homicide trial of Dawud Rogers in Lycoming County court, Britney Marie Taylor, whose last known address was of the 400 block of Cemetery Street, failed to appear for the trial and has now been charged with absconding ...

Jersey Shore area man arrested on his third shoplifting offenses

Randy Lee Myers, 67, of 479 Old Route 220, apartment 5, Jersey Shore, has been charged by Lycoming Regional police with two felony counts of shoplifting for stealing merchandise from the Weis Market on Allegheny Street in Jersey Shore on Feb. 25 and again on Feb. 28, it was alleged in an affidavit. The value of the merchandise was estimated at $153, police said. This was Myers’ third shoplifting offense, police said. Following his arraignment before Biichle, Myers was initially jailed, but has since been released on $15,000 bail.

Driver suffers only minor injuries in rollover crash along Market Street

The driver of this Volkswagen Atlas, Gregory Brown, 46, of Williamsport, declined treatment for minor injuries he suffered when his southbound vehicle struck a guidewire in the 1000 block of Market Street and overturned about 11 a.m. Tuesday, city police said. City firefighters also responded ...