An arrest warrant was expected to be filed for Brandon Hill, of 59 Gap Road, Elimsport, after the 29-year-old man recently failed to appear for his preliminary hearing to face misdemeanor and summary charges filed by state Game Warden Sheldon Helm. Hill has been charged with resisting inspection or apprehension and flight to avoid apprehension as well as four summary offenses, including resisting or interfering with an officer, according to court records filed at the office of District Judge Kirsten Gardner.

Shortly after Helm stopped him and asked him for his fishing license near Spring Creek off of Mill Road in Washington Township on the afternoon of April 4, Hill jumped in a white Mazda and took off, it was alleged in an affidavit. Minutes earlier, Helm saw Hill in waders, carrying a trout on a fishing stringer, the court document stated. After Hill fled the scene, Helm caught up with him on Fourth Gap Road. When he was asked why he fled, Hill claimed he was “confused,” the affidavit stated. Hill released him and told him to go home, the court document stated. In the meantime, Helm learned that not only did Hill not have a fishing license, but there were also “several warrants” for his arrest. The Lycoming Sheriff’s Office wanted Hill taken into custody and automatically jailed in the Lycoming County Prison, which was done that night. There was no information Tuesday night regarding those warrants, but Hill was later released from jail. Hill was arraigned last month on Helm’s charges and released on $25,000 bail. In his absence, Hill was held for court on all of Helm’s charges at the conclusion of a recent hearing before Gardner.