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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 ...

Muncy area man faces theft charge

After a confidential informant gave him $160 in the 800 block of Franklin Street in city’s East End on July 15, Joshua Lynn Mosteller got out of a vehicle and headed north, supposedly en route to get methamphetamine for the informant, it was alleged in an affidavit filed by a detective with ...

Sex offender charged with failing to register new address

Columbia County Prison inmate Bautista Lee Bonett, a convicted sex offender since 1991, has been charged by state police with failure to register his new address with them when he moved to the 6900 block of Route 15 in Clinton Township in mid-February, according to an affidavit filed at the office of District Judge Kirsten Gardner. Incarcerated on another criminal matter, Bonett, 61, was convicted of rape in 1991, the affidavit stated. Investigators stated Bonett still carried an address of Shickshinny, Luzerne County, even though he moved to Lycoming County several months ago. Following ...

Police: Man’s pounding leaves blood on woman’s door

Arriving on the scene of a reported disturbance in the 700 block of West Edwin Street about 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 24, city police officers heard Zachary Allen Rishel yelling obscenities and noticed his “knuckles were bloody” and he was bleeding as well from a scrape on his right elbow, ...

When state troopers arrived at a remote property in the 1400 block of Miller Road in Franklin Township on the afternoon of Feb. 12 to investigate a burglary, they found the interior of a house in “complete disarray with almost everything inside it destroyed,” according to an affidavit. On ...