Woman injured
in scooter crash
LYKENS — A Lykens woman was injured when the motorized scooter she was driving crashed at Wall and Second streets in this Dauphin County community about 7:55 p.m. Thursday.
State police at Lykens said Sabrina L. Knudsen, 55, was driving the vehicle south on Wall Street and struck a large pothole in the street. The front end of the scooter went into the pothole causing it to overturn and throw the woman from it onto the asphalt.
The woman was taken to Harrisburg Hospital by Upper Dauphin EMS and Lykens firefighters assisted at the scene, police said.
State police seek
stolen cellphone
HAMBURG — A cellphone was found and then stolen about 7 p.m. May 11 from the Wal-Mart parking lot at 1800 Tilden Ridge Drive in this Berks County borough.
State police at Hamburg said Jenni Blackmon, 36, of 164 N. Third St., Hamburg, unknowingly dropped her pink iPhone 5 while exiting her vehicle to enter Wal-Mart. The phone, valued at $158, was missing when she later returned to her vehicle.
The Wal-Mart surveillance footage shows a woman with dark hair getting out of a blue Ford Taurus parked next to Blackmon’s car. She seemed to pick the phone up off the ground, police said. She then got back into the Taurus and drove out of the parking lot.
Anyone with information on this theft is asked to call state police.
Woman charged
with retail theft
SAINT CLAIR — Saint Clair police filed charges against a Hamburg woman after an incident about 4:50 p.m. April 22 at Wal-Mart.
Police said Brandi Harner, 30, of 6 Mountain View Court, was charged with felony retail theft and misdemeanor offenses of false identification to law enforcement and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Police said that Harner tried to steal items valued at $314.27 from the store, ran to a vehicle in the parking lot but was stopped by officers and a state police trooper who were able to put the vehicle in park and turn off the ignition.
Police said Harner provided authorities with a false identification and was subsequently found with drug paraphernalia including two hypodermic needles, a spoon with burnt residue, 10 empty clear plastic bags, 13 other bags and two bags that contained a white powder.
Police said the charges against Harner were filed with Magisterial District Judge David A. Plachko, Port Carbon.