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.

THE INVESTIGATION INTO A THURSDAY MORNING HOUSE EXPLOSION CONTINUES IN CLEARFIELD COUNTY.  OFFICIALS SAY IT HAPPENED AROUND 7:30 ON PENTZ LANE IN FERGUSON TOWNSHIP, NEAR CURWENSVILLE.  ONE MALE VICTIM WAS TRAPPED IN THE HOUSE AND HAD TO BE RESCUED.  A SECOND VICTIM DID ESCAPE, BUT WAS INJURED IN THE PROCESS.  BOTH VICTIMS WERE TAKEN TO HOSPITALS FOR TREATMENT.  MULTIPLE FIRE COMPANIES WERE INVOLVED IN PUTTING OUT THE FIRE. 

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.

THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE DEATH OF AN INMATE AT THE COUNTY JAIL IS UNDERWAY.  ACCORDING TO THE CLEARFIELD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, A 71-YEAR-OLD MAN DIED LAST FRIDAY MORNING.  JAIL PERSONNEL TRIED TO REVIVE HIM, BUT HE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE HAD A CARDIAC EPISODE.  AN AUTOPSY AND TOXICOLOGY REPORT WILL BE COMPLETED TO PROVIDE A DEFINITE CAUSE OF DEATH.

A KANE TEEN IS FACING ASSAULT CHARGES AFTER AN INCIDENT BACK ON JUNE 29^TH OF THIS YEAR.  LEWIS RUN STATE POLICE SAY IT HAPPENED ON CHASE STREET IN THE BOROUGH WHEN THE 15-YEAR-OLD ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTED TWO VICTIMS IN THE HOME.  THE TEEN WAS TAKEN TO UPMC KANE FOR A PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION. 

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.

ST. MARYS CITY POLICE HAVE FILED CHARGES AGAINST A LUSBY, MARYLAND WOMAN AFTER SHE STRUCK A PEDESTRIAN LAST MONTH.  ACCORDING TO POLICE, IT HAPPENED JUNE 18^TH WHEN 36-YEAR-OLD SARA FRANTZ EXITED AN ALLEY ONTO DEPOT STREET AND STRUCK THE PEDESTRIAN.  THE VICTIM WAS TAKEN TO PENN HIGHLANDS ELK FOR TREATMENT. 

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.

STATE POLICE ARE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR A DRIVER WHO LEFT THE SCENE AFTER HITTING A TEEN RIDING A SCOOTER IN ELDRED TOWNSHIP LAST WEEK.  THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AT 11PM, JUNE 30^TH, ON O’DONNELL ROAD JUST SOUTH OF FISCHER ROAD IN JEFFERSON COUNTY.  19-YEAR-OLD ESTHER MAST TOLD POLICE THAT A DARK COLORED PICKUP TRUCK APPROACHED HER FROM BEHIND WITH THE HEADLIGHTS OFF AND STRUCK HER.  SHE TOLD THEM THAT THE IMPACT OF THE BUMPER INJURED HER HIP.  ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT THIS HIT AND RUN IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE STATE POLICE IN MARIENVILLE.