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Lycoming County district judges handle criminal matters in four separate cases

While motorist Cindy Lee Tisi recently waived her preliminary hearing on several charges before District Judge Gary Whiteman, state police withdrew a total of nine other offenses, including four counts each of receiving stolen property and illegal possession of cards plus one count of theft. ...

Several arraigned before Lycoming County district judges

Hughesville area woman charged with shoplifting Tanya Rae Zwolinski, 35, of 5208 Route 220, Hughesville, has been charged with misdemeanor shoplifting after she stole $5 worth of clothing from Two Olde Crows Variety Shoppe, 2168 Route 442, Muncy, on Oct. 27, state police alleged in an ...

Seventeen people charged with various drug offenses

Seventeen people have been charged with various drug offenses in separate cases, according to court records recently made public. Those charged were: Robert Lane Hamilton, 35, of 1146 W. Fourth St.; the county’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit (NEU); three felony counts of delivery of crack ...

Williamsport 19-year-old charged with having inappropriate contact with minor

Soon after Jaykwon Dickson and the 12-year-old girl met on social media in mid-October, the 19-year-old Dickson began sending the minor photos of his private parts and videos he took of himself engaging in self-gratifying sexual acts, city police alleged in an an affidavit. Over the next ...

Home invasion results in charges against Williamsport man

After forcing his way into the woman’s home in the 600 block of Krouse Avenue about 11 a.m. on Nov. 1, Kevin Lewis Anderson put “his hand on the woman’s neck and pushed her down on a couch behind her,” city police alleged in an affidavit. Officers had been dispatched to the ...

All local charges dropped against Philadelphia man wanted in two states

Although city police withdrew all charges against Sameer Ruffin that stemmed from a domestic disturbance on Oct. 17 in which he is alleged to have threatened to kill a woman and her children in the East End, the 23-year-old Philadelphia man’s legal troubles are far from over, according to ...