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Williamsport man jailed after alleged solicitation of children

Led to believe he was texting a 13-year-old girl, Daniel Ade requested that the two engage in various sexual acts, it was alleged in a Williamsport city police affidavit. Investigators said that beginning in October, Ade, 57, and “the teen” exchanged a series of text messages which ...

Running fugitive nabbed quickly by Williamsport police

Standing at West Fourth and Park streets about 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 4, fugitive Tramane Moore, wanted on two bench warrants, saw a city police officer getting out of a cruiser so he took off running, according to an affidavit. Moore, 36, who has been arrested at least three times for shoplifting, ...

Inmate at Allenwood convicted for attack on corrections officers

An avowed terrorist pleaded guilty to offenses related to a 2020 attack on correctional officers at the U.S. Penitentiary Allenwood. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the National Security Division of the Department of Justice said that Abdulrahman El ...

Williamsport man sentenced to 10 years in state prison for 2024 assault

After several continuances, a city man, who removed his clothes during a June 2024 arraignment before District Judge Denise Dieter, has been sentenced to 57 months to ten years in state prison, Lycoming County Judge Eric Linhardt ruled Friday afternoon. In March 2025, Brian Carr, 50, of ...

Old Lycoming Township man allegedly assaulted 2 children

Robert John Moyer, 27, of 2200 Lycoming Creek Road, has been arrested on assault-related charges after he is alleged to have struck two children who had been left in his care on Oct. 14 while their mother went on a few errands, state police said in an affidavit. When the mother returned home, ...

Former Walmart employee charged with theft

While employed as a cashier at Walmart in Montoursville last December and January, Alyssa Kay Mitchell stole an estimated $230 from the department store, borough police alleged in an affidavit. Police allege she stole the cash - in amounts ranging from $10 to $40 - on 11 occasions. Following ...