Man charged with
assaulting girlfriend
GIRARDVILLE — A Girardville man was arrested by state police at Frackville after an assault about 2 p.m. July 10 on East Ogden Street.
Police said Reinoldo Hernandez-Herrera became involved in an argument with his live-in girlfriend that became physical with him choking the woman and punching her in the eye.
Police said Hernandez-Herrera was arraigned on charges of simple assault, harassment and strangulation and committed to Schuylkill County Prison unable to post $20,000 straight cash bail.
Police: Woman had
marijuana near child
SHENANDOAH — Shenandoah police filed charges against a borough woman stemming from an incident at 108 W. Penn St. on June 30.
Police said Tiffany Marie Koncsler, 26, of 109 N. Main St., was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, corruption of minors, resisting arrest, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Police said officers were called to 108 W. Penn St. and told by a woman that Koncsler and her boyfriend were upstairs doing drugs.
Going to the room, police said, officers found Koncsler and her boyfriend with an odor of marijuana inside and a rolled marijuana cigarette and a bag of marijuana in plain sight.
Also in the room was a 4-year-old child who was lying on the floor near the marijuana cigarette, police said.
When told she was being placed under arrest, police said Koncsler became aggressive, verbally abusive and physically resisted being taken into custody.
Police: Man stole
lottery tickets
FRACKVILLE — A Ringtown man was jailed after being arrested by state police at Frackville for a burglary about 9 p.m. Friday at the Frackville Exxon station on Altamont Boulevard in West Mahanoy Township.
Police said William G. Navitsky, 25, was charged with burglary, theft and related offenses, arraigned by on-call Magisterial District Judge David Rossi, Tremont, and committed to Schuylkill County Prison unable to post $20,000 straight cash bail.
Police said employees at the business discovered the theft of about $500 in higher-priced Pennsylvania lottery tickets through an audit and video images.
The video showed Navitsky reaching into a secured area of the store where the tickets are sold and on several occasions removing them while the clerk was distracted.
Navitsky was found to be staying in a nearby hotel and when taken into custody, found with drug paraphernalia.
Police said that it was also discovered that earlier in the evening on Friday, Navitsky tried to purchase merchandise with a counterfeit $100 bill.
3 face charges
after fracas
MAHANOY CITY — Mahanoy City police charged three people after an incident about 6:40 p.m. Saturday in the 100 and 200 blocks of East Market Street.
Police said Dennis J. Brennan, 55, of 1038 E. Market St., was charged with persistent disorderly conduct and harassment, and Donald C. Howley, 49, of 308 E. Pine St., was charged with persistent disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, public drunkenness, harassment and criminal mischief.
In addition, police said, Jacqueline M. Sippie, 23, of 514 Morea Road, Mahanoy City, was charged with persistent disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and harassment.
Police said Howley and Brennan became involved in an altercation and exchanged punches after Howley claimed Brennan struck his daughter, Sippie.
When being taken into custody, police said, Howley resisted and at one point Sippie struck an officer in the chest while trying to interfere with her father being taken into custody.
In addition, police said, Brennan continued to yell and scream and act aggressively toward Howley despite being ordered not to do so.
During the incident, police said, Howley had a strong odor of alcohol about him and also required significant force to be placed in handcuffs.
All three will now have to answer to the charges against them before Magisterial District Judge Anthony J. Kilker, Shenandoah.