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Police Fire and Court

Hospital patient’s alleged assault of police officers results in charges

While being treated in the emergency room at UPMC Williamsport on Jan. 18, Elizabeth Zion Torok first spit in the face of a security officer, telling him, “Have fun with that,” and then hours later “physically lunged” at another officer’s arm, “digging her fingernails into the arm ...

Additional charges filed against man accused of 9/11 Ride Coalition theft

Already awaiting trial for felony theft charges filed last year after allegedly swindling the Lycoming County 9/11 Memorial Coalition out of $7,000 in T-shirts and decals, Michael Allen Ritter has been charged with another set of offenses for cheating another entity out of money, according to ...

Montgomery man charged for trading card thefts sentenced to 6 to 24 months

A Montgomery man charged with stealing sports trading cards on two separate occasions from Target in Muncy Township will serve 6 to 24 months in state prison, Lycoming County Judge William Carlucci ruled Tuesday afternoon. Stephen Thomas Naglak, 48, pleaded guilty to two counts of retail theft ...

Man at assisted living facility charged with indecent assault

Admitting to having “sexual impulses,” Joel Edgar Moser, 55, a resident of an assisted-living medical facility in Lycoming County, has been charged with indecent assault for having inappropriate contact with a female resident at the facility on Nov. 24, state police alleged in an affidavit. ...

Homeless man charged with threatening violence

After Matthew Schauer told him twice to get off his property near Sixth and Pine streets about 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 31, Curtis Catherman began to make threats, city police alleged in an affidavit. “This is now war. I will shoot the (expletive) out of you with my gat,” the 37-year-old homeless ...

Loyalsock Township man locked up on robbery-related charges

Brennan Scott Gundrum, 28, who also goes by “Gunny,” of 1414 E. Third St., has been jailed on charges of robbery and theft after he forcibly took money from James Tyler, who was trying to pay off a “drug debt” he had with Gundrum, on Feb. 5 in the 1300 block of West Fourth St, city ...