STATE POLICE ARRESTED 43-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER YAWORSKY OF BRADFORD LATE LAST WEEK AFTER HE CALLED TO REPORT FINDING A BAG OF COCAINE IN APRIL.  AFTER AN INVESTIGATION, OFFICERS SAY IT BELONGED TO HIM.  HE CLAIMED THAT HE FOUND A BLACK MESH BAG OF THE DRUG OUTSIDE OF A FACILITY ON ABRAXAS ROAD IN HOWE TOWNSHIP.  UPON REVIEW OF THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO, TROOPERS DETERMINED THAT THE BAG WAS HIS.  YAWORSKY ALLEGEDLY TOLD POLICE THAT THE NIGHT BEFORE MAKING THE REPORT, BE REPLACED THE COCAINE WITH BAKING SODA.  HE IS DUE IN COURT ON AUGUST 11^TH.

FORMER DUBOIS CITY MANAGER JOHN “HERM” SUPLIZIO WILL APPEAR IN FEDERAL COURT NEXT THURSDAY FOR A CHANGE IN PLEA HEARING.  THIS IS A PROCEEDING AT WHICH A DEFENDANT MAY CHANGE A PREVIOUSLY ENTERED PLEA AND IT DOES NOT INDICATE WHETHER A PLEA AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED.  SUPLIZIO PREVIOUSLY PLEAD NOT GUILTY TO PUBLIC CORRUPTION CHARGES THAT HAVE BEEN PENDING AGAINST HIM SINCE 2023.  HIS FORMER SECRETARY, ROBERTA SHAFFER, CHANGED HER PLEA TO GUILTY TWO MONTHS AGO TO FELONY CHARGES FROM THE SAME INVESTIGATION.

22-YEAR-OLD CONNOR PAPALIA OF WARREN IS FACING ASSAULT CHARGES AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY STRANGLED A WOMAN AND TRIED TO STAB TWO PEOPLE WITH A KNIFE ON JULY 8^TH.  STATE POLICE WERE DISPATCHED TO WINDY PINES LANE IN FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP AT JUST BEFORE 1AM.  THE FEMALE VICTIM TOLD TROOPERS THAT PAPALIA CHOKED HER AND THREATENED TO CUT HER AND TO STAB ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL.  HE IS IN THE WARREN COUNTY JAIL UNABLE TO POST $100,000 BAIL.

MORE PRAISE IS BEING GIVEN ON THE RECENT PASSAGE OF THE BUDGET IN PENNSYLVANIA’S LEGISLATURE.  GOVERNOR JOSH SHAPIRO IS LAUDING BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE. 

THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE THEFT OF SOME MONEY FROM A BENEFIT DINNER IS ONGOING IN ELK COUNTY.  RIDGWAY STATE POLICE SAY ABOUT 15 HUNDRED DOLLARS WAS TAKEN FROM THE JAY TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT DURING A RECENT BENEFIT DINNER.  THE MONEY WAS APPARENTLY TAKEN FROM A MONEY ENVELOPE.  ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CALL POLICE. 

23-YEAR-OLD DONALD CUNNINGHAM OF CLARION AVOIDED INJURY AFTER HIS CAR VEERED OFF ROUTE 36 AND STRUCK A GARAGE LAST WEEK.  THE CRASH HAPPENED AT JUST BEFORE 7PM ON JULY 6^TH SOUTH OF PINE HOLLOW DRIVE IN WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.  HE WAS TRAVELING NORTHBOUND WHEN HIS 2017 NISSAN ALTIMA LEFT THE ROADWAY, STRUCK A TREE HEAD-ON AND COLLIDED WITH A GARGE BEFORE COMING TO REST FACING EASTBOUND ON THE HIGHWAY.  TROOPERS SAY THAT CUNNINGHAM WAS WEARING HIS SEATBELT AND WASN’T INJURED.  HE WAS CITED FOR DRIVING AT AN UNSAFE SPEED.

EVERYONE IS OK AFTER A RIDGWAY BOROUGH FIRE EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.  ACCORDING TO REPORTS, IT HAPPENED ON NORTH ROCK STREET AND NEEDED 8 FIRE COMPANIES TO GET IT UNDER CONTROL.  FIRE CAUSED MINIMAL DAMAGE TO A NEIGHBORING HOUSE.  NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED.  NO DAMAGE ESTIMATE IS KNOWN AT THIS TIME. 

GAS PRICES ARE LOWER THIS WEEK.  TRIPLE A REPORTS A 13-CENT DROP IN THE PRICE OF REGULAR UNLEADED TO REST AT 4.01.  HOWEVER, THE NATIONAL AVERAGE PRICE IS RISING, UP 8 CENTS A GALLON.  THAT’S THE FIRST TIME SINCE LATE MAY THAT THE NATIONAL AVERAGE HAS RISEN.  THE LOWEST PRICE IN OUR AREA COMES IN WARREN, WHERE IT’S 3.77 A GALLON.    

36-YEAR-OLD KRISTINA MILLER OF KANE HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO 22 TO 44 MONTHS IN STATE PRISON AFTER SHE PLED GUILTY TO INTSTITUTIONAL SEXUAL ASSAULT, UNLAWFUL USE OF A COMPUTER AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMITT IDENTITY THEFT.  SHE WORKED AT SCI FOREST FROM 2020 TO 2023 AND WOULD SEND INMATES PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM THE PRISON DATABASE TO ANTOHER PERSON AS PART OF A FINANCIAL FRAUD SHEME WHILE SHE WAS ALLEGEDLY HAVING A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH AT LEAST THREE INMATES. 

THE MCKEAN COUNTY SHERRIF’S OFFICE HAS CHARGED 37-YEAR-OLD SUZETTE MUSOLINIO OF BRADFORD WITH DRUG RELATED OFFENSES INCLUDING DELIVERY OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, CONSPIRACY TO DELIVER AND POSSESSION.  SHE WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY AND PLACED IN THE MCKEAN COUNTY JAIL ON $150,000 BAIL.

43-YEAR-OLD LACY KEIHL AND 42-YEAR-OLD MATTHEW WAZELLE, BOTH OF BROOKVILLE ARE FACING CHARGES AFTER THEY ALLEGEDLY FLED THE SCENE OF A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT AND PROVIDED FALSE INFORMATION TO POLICE.  THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED AT JUST BEFORE 2PM ON MAY 29^TH AT THE INTERSECTION OF WHITE STREET AND MADISON AVENUE.  A WITNESS FOLLOWED THE PICKUP TRUCK KIEHL WAS DRIVING AFTER THE HIT AND RUN AND PROVIDED THE LICENSE PLATE NUMBER.  BOTH KIEHL AND WAZELLE HAD SUSPENDED LICENSES AND TOLD OFFICERS THAT THEY WERE NOT DRIVING THE TRUCK AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.  THAT INFORMATION PROVED TO BE FALSE.  THE PRELIMINARY HEARING FOR BOTH DEFENDANTS IS ON AUGUST 20^TH.

A MCKEAN COUNTY WOMAN IS FACING FELONY ARSON CHARGES AFTER SHE ALLEGEDLY INTENTIONALLY SET A FIRE AT THE BRADFORD POLICE DEPARTMENT THIS WEEK.  POLICE SAY IT HAPPENED TUESDAY NIGHT WHEN 44-YEAR-OLD KRISTY ROUNSVILLE REPORTEDLY USED A HIDDEN LIGHTER TO IGNITE HER SWEATSHIRT IN THE POLICE HOLDING CELL, WHICH THEN SPREAD TO NEARBY COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS.  NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. 

STATE POLICE REPORT THAT 64-YEAR-OLD TIMOTHY HEWITT OF KENNEDY, NEW YORK HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH RESISTING ARREST, ASSAULT AND ATTEMPING TO ELUDE CAPTURE AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY STRUCK AN OFFICER ON MONDAY.  THERE WAS A PURSUIT THAT STARTED IN ROULETTE TOWNSHIP IN POTTER COUNTY THAT CONTINUED INTO ELDRED BOROUGH, MCKEAN COUNTY.  TROOPERS HAD TO USE A PIT MANEUVER WITH SPIKE STRIPS TO STOP THE VEHICLE.  ONE OF THE TROOPERS SUFFERED A BROKEN HAND AS A RESULT OF THE STRUGGLE TAKING HEWITT INTO CUSTODY.  HE IS IN THE POTTER COUNTY JAIL ON $75,000 BAIL.

BROOVILLE BOROUGH POLICE HAVE CHARGED 35-YEAR-OLD COURTNEY EISMAN OF REYNOLDSVILLE AFTER SHE ALLEGEDLY STOLE $2,500 DOLLARS THAT WAS MEANT FOR A BANK DEPOSIT.  THE SECRETARY OF THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES AUXILLIARY ON MAIN STREET TOLD OFFICERS THAT SHE GAVE EISMAN, THEIR TREASURER, THE MONEY TO DEPOSIT INTO THEIR BANK ACCOUNT.  MOST OF THE MONEY WAS NEVER DEPOSITED.  EISMAN IS DUE IN COURT FOR HER PRELIMINARY HEARING ON AUGUST 3^RD.

4 PEOPLE ARE OK AFTER BEING RESCUED DURING MONDAY’S FLOODING IN ELK COUNTY.  CREWS WERE SENT OUT ABOUT 9 MONDAY EVENING TO THE 3000 BLOCK OF SPRING RUN ROAD IN JAY TOWNSHIP FOR A GROUP THAT HAD THEIR ATV WAS SWEPT AWAY BY THE RISING WATER.  THE GROUP ESCAPED THE WATER, BUT BECAME STRANDED ON A BANK.  SEVERAL RESCUE TEAMS IN THE AREA AIDED IN THEIR RESCUE.  NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. 

28-YEAR-OLD DAVID LORENZ OF WARREN IS FACING RAPE CHARGES AFTER A 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL REPORTED THAT HE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER WHEN SHE WAS BETWEEN 5 AND 7 YEARS OLD.  THE CHILD PROVIDED DETAILS OF ASSAULTS BY LORENZ ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS TO THE ERIE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER AND THAT THEY OCCURRED AT HIS RESIDENCE IN GLADE TOWNSHIP.  THE VICTIM’S MOTHER CONFIRMED IN A SEPARATE INTERVIEW THAT HER DAUGHTER WOULD HAVE BEEN AT THE RESIDENCE AT THE TIME OF THE ALLEGED ASSAULTS.  LORENZ WAS PLACED IN THE WARREN COUNTY JAIL WITH BAIL SET AT $250,000.

MAKE IT ANOTHER WEEK WITH LOWER GAS PRICES IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.  TRIPLE A’S LATEST FUEL REPORT CITES A 9-CENT DROP IN THE PRICE OF REGULAR UNLEADED TO REST AT 4.14 A GALLON.  THE LOWEST PRICE IN OUR AREA COMES IN WARREN, WHERE IT’S 3.95 A GALLON. 

AN ERIE MAN IS RECEIVING CARE TODAY FOLLOWING A JULY 4^TH ACCIDENT IN ELDRED TOWNSHIP, WARREN COUNTY.  STATE POLICE IN WARREN SAY IT HAPPENED IN THE EARLY MORNING ON BUELL’S CORNERS ROAD AT THE INTERSECTION OF OIL CREEK ROAD WHEN 20-YEAR-OLD HAYDEN TOMCHO LOST CONTROL OF HIS CAR, CAUSING IT TO STRIKE AN EMBANKMENT.  TOMCHO WAS TRAPPED IN THE VEHICLE AND HAD TO BE EXTRACATED.  HE WAS FLOWN TO UPMC HAMOT IN ERIE FOR TREATMENT OF SUSPECTED SERIOUS INJURIES. 

THE WEEKEND RAIN BROUGHT SOME UNWANTED FLOODING TO THE REGION.  MANY REPORTS DETAIL FLOODING IN SEVERAL AREAS IN ST. MARYS, RIDGWAY, AND JOHNSONBURG IN ELK COUNTY, WHILE REPORTS OF FLOODED STREETS IN THE CITY OF DUBOIS HAVE CAUSED SOME ISSUES AS WELL.  THE FORECAST DOES CALL FOR MORE RAIN TODAY, A BREAK TOMORROW, AND MORE RAIN THURSDAY.  

AS A RESULT OF THE FLOODING, THE ST. MARYS PUBLIC LIBRARY IS CLOSED ON TUESDAY, JULY 7TH.  

EMERGENCY CREWS WERE DISPATCHED TO 203 TOZIER AVENUE IN DUBOIS ON JULY 3^RD FOR A STRUCTURE FIRE.  THE CALLER SAID THEY BELIEVED THAT THERE WAS NO ONE INSIDE AND THAT TWO BYSTANDERS ENTERED THE RESIDENCE BEFORE FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED TO SAVE TWO CATS.  FLAMES WERE VISIBLE ON THE SECND FLOOR UPON ARRIVAL AND WERE QUICKLY EXTINGUISHED.  THE STATE POLICE FIRE MARSHALL CONDUCTED AN INVESTIGATION AND DETERMINED THAT THE CAUSE WAS ACCIDENTAL.  DAMAGES ARE ESTIMATED TO BE AROUND $70,000.