Crime and Courts

Published on October 25, 2024 - Page 1
Press Enterprise staff report MILLVILLE -- Two Mount Pleasant Township residents were arrested in an overnight burglary at Millville Mutual Insurance...
Published on October 25, 2024 - Page 1
RUPERT -- An argument between two brothers over the use of a credit card ended when one stabbed the other, the police chief said. Chief Terry Eckart...
Published on October 25, 2024 - Page 3
SOUTH CENTRE TWP.- A homeless man has been charged after resisting arrest, police say. On Sept. 25 around 3 a.m., Lawrence Rober Swink, 72, was...
Published on October 25, 2024 - Page 5
BLOOMSBURG -- A woman has pleaded guilty to trying to escape police custody following a domestic disturbance in Berwick four years ago. Jessica Cobb...
Published on October 25, 2024 - Page 8
BLOOMSBURG -- A Danville man is charged with welfare fraud by failing to report earned income while collecting food stamps under the state SNAP or...
Published on October 23, 2024 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- Corporations owned by Community Strategies Group and developer Matt Zoppetti have filed a lawsuit alleging the Bloomsburg Municipal...
Published on October 23, 2024 - Page 1
CATAWISSA -- A man facing 20 felony counts of having child pornography on his phone waived his right to a preliminary hearing Tuesday. Brian Laylon,...
Published on October 23, 2024 - Page 1
Press Enterprise staff report SCOTT TWP. -- A Lightstreet man is accused of getting a woman some medical marijuana after she gave him money to buy...
Published on October 23, 2024 - Page 4
From staff reports CATAWISSA -- A Danville man has been charged after police say he was driving under the influence of marijuana. On Oct. 4 around 8:...
Published on October 23, 2024 - Page 4
Press Enterprise staff report BLOOMSBURG -- Seven people arrested for the first time on nonviolent offenses were accepted Thursday into Columbia...
Published on October 22, 2024 - Page 1
CATAWISSA -- A district judge found the owner of Mystic Kennels guilty Friday of failing to maintain the health of seven dogs, failing to sanitize...
Published on October 22, 2024 - Page 1
Press Enterprise staff report BERWICK -- Police say a woman who struck someone's car with her own and drove away in September was high on...
Published on October 22, 2024 - Page 3
HARRISBURG -- An appeals court has upheld an earlier decision denying Maria Sanutti-Spencer a new trial after she was found guilty of conspiring...
Published on October 22, 2024 - Page 4
Press Enterprise staff report SELINSGROVE -- A former Berwick football player is accused of beating another athlete so badly, he broke the bones in...
Published on October 22, 2024 - Page 9
BLOOMSBURG -- A man was charged with defiant trespass when police spotted him inside the Laundry Room where he was banned from entering in September...
Published on October 21, 2024 - Page 1
BERWICK -- A set of parents here have been charged after their 2-year-old son was left unsupervised for more than two hours and was found across the...
Published on October 21, 2024 - Page 5
Press Enterprise staff report CATAWISSA -- A Mount Carmel man has been charged after admitting a half-smoked marijuana joint was his during a...
Published on October 20, 2024 - Page 1
Press Enterprise staff report ALMEDIA -- Police say a man they spotted speeding through an isolated neighborhood was drunk and yelled at them for...
Published on October 20, 2024 - Page 1
Press Enterprise staff report LIME RIDGE -- A man fled after crashing his pickup near the South Centre Township Police station, charges say. Officer...
Published on October 20, 2024 - Page 3
BERWICK -- A man has been charged after an argument led officers to his smoking pipe, Berwick Police say. On Sept. 8 around 2:45 p.m., Officer...
Published on October 20, 2024 - Page 5
Sunday, Sept. 22 * 1:37 a.m., 10 block Iron Street, overdose * 8:02 a.m., West Main Street. disturbance * 10:16 a.m., 300 block Catherine Street, 9-...
Published on October 20, 2024 - Page 10
SUNBURY (AP) -- State Police took a man and woman from Massachusetts into custody early Saturday after hundreds of minks were released from a...
Published on October 19, 2024 - Page 1
LIGHTSTREET -- Trials in Columbia County court may have to be postponed because the person working as a jury clerk has been moved to another...
Published on October 19, 2024 - Page 1
Press Enterprise staff report BLOOMSBURG -- A Bloomsburg woman claimed she had just left an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting when she was arrested for...
Published on October 19, 2024 - Page 1
CATAWISSA -- Police have filed 23 new counts for possession of child pornography against a Berwick man cornered in the Weis Markets parking lot here...
Published on October 19, 2024 - Page 3
The Bloomsburg Police Department responded to the following incidents from Sept. 15-Sept. 21. Sunday, Sept. 15 * 12:36 a.m., 300 block West Fourth...
Published on October 19, 2024 - Page 5
Press Enterprise staff report BLOOMSBURG -- A Bloomsburg man seen driving recklessly on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and nearly striking a parked...
Published on October 18, 2024 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A used car dealer in Berwick pleaded guilty Thursday to theft and "unprofessional conduct" after officials say he withheld titles from...
Published on October 17, 2024 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A Wilkes-Barre man shot during an apparent robbery along Irondale Road this month sent gun charges stemming from the incident on to...
Published on October 17, 2024 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A man jailed recently for tossing items including propane gas cylinders from a motel room onto Columbia Boulevard is now charged with...