State police find
lost belongings
TREMONT — State police at Schuylkill Haven reported finding lost items along Route 209 near the Big Lots Distribution Center in Tremont Township on Sunday.
Items found included five keys on a ring with an alarm-starter control and a vehicle fob.
Anyone with information or who may have lost the items can call police at 570-739-1330.
Police charge man
with weapons
McADOO — McAdoo police said a Tresckow man will be charged with having prohibited offensive weapons after traffic stop in the borough about 8:25 p.m. May 26.
Police said that during the stop they found a passenger in the vehicle, Brian Minzola, 19, with a knife type instrument in a hip holster along with an unlabeled pill bottle with one pill.
Minzola told officers the knife was actually a tool for gutting deer that he kept for self defense but officers secured the item since it had two secured holes similar to brass knuckles and also two fixed blades, police said.
Charges against Minzola will be filed with Magisterial District Judge Stephen J. Bayer, Tamaqua.
Man charged
with harassment
WILLIAMSTOWN — A 22-year-old Tower City man was arrested by state police at Lykens and charged after an incident about 11:35 p.m. May 31 at 225 W. Broad St. in this Dauphin County community.
Police said Dylan Madenford will have to answer before Magisterial District Judge Rebecca Margerum, Elizabethville, on charges of simple assault, harassment, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.
Police said Madenford had just crashed a stolen vehicle on East Market Street and went to the rear door of the Williamstown Fire Company building where Brian J. Troup, 64, of Williamstown, was leaving.
Troup opened the secure door, saw Madenford standing there and a struggle ensued between the two men along with Kevin Davis, 50, of Williamstown.
Police said Madenford assaulted the two men and then fled south toward Broad Street.
Prior to the assault, police said, about 10:45 p.m. Madenford exited a home he was in at 303 Broad St. in Williamstown and stole a vehicle owned by Shannon N. Keller and drove that vehicle that he then crashed into a parked vehicle owned by Tonya Hawk, also of Williamstown.
In connection with this incident police said Madenford will be charged with theft, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, receiving stolen property, DUI and multiple traffic violations.