Car rear-ended;
1 driver injured
HOMETOWN - Rush Township police are investigating a crash that occurred about 6:45 a.m. Tuesday at Mahanoy Avenue and Miller Street.
Police said Arba Phillips, 52, of Shenandoah, was waiting to turn left from Mahanoy Avenue onto Miller Street when her 2013 Hyundai was rear-ended by a Jeep Cherokee driven by Tammy Harleman, 52, of Ashland.
Police said Harleman was taken to St. Luke's Miner's Memorial Hospital, Coaldale, for treatment of injuries she suffered in the crash.
Police probe
machine theft
HOMETOWN - Rush Township police are investigating a theft at Marian High School that was reported on Wednesday.
Police said someone stole vending machines and fled the scene.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 570-668-4242.
Lansford fugitive
arrested, jailed
HOMETOWN - Rush Township police took a Lansford man into custody about 7:30 p.m. April 10 on an outstanding warrant.
Police said John Simonson, 19, was wanted in Carbon County and is facing charges of synthetic marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
He was sent to Carbon County Prison, police said.
Man arrested for
threat with gun
A city man was arrested Wednesday after Pottsville police received a report of a man threatening a woman with a handgun.
Pottsville police said the 2:57 p.m. incident at 1740 W. Norwegian St. in the city involved John M. Krisa Jr., 39, and an unidentified woman who went to the home of Vanessa Vandermeer, 33, and her live-in boyfriend, Darwin Knight.
Vandermeer told police that Krisa and the unidentified woman came because of an ongoing issue, and Krisa started shouting obscenities while demanding to see Knight, who was not present.
Police said Krisa got into a vehicle and, while sitting, banged a handgun on the passenger side window in a manner that Vandermeer said was threatening.
A witness in the Vandermeer home and a neighbor confirmed much of what took place, police said.
A Schuylkill County sheriff's deputy stopped a white BMW driven by Krisa in the 400 block of East Norwegian Street after the man left the scene.
A Smith and Wesson .22-caliber handgun was recovered when Krisa was taken into custody, police said.
Magisterial District Judge David A. Plachko, Port Carbon, arraigned Krisa on a felony charge of firearms not to be carried without a license, a misdemeanor of recklessly endangering another person and misdemeanor of persistent disorderly conduct. He was released by Plachko on $10,000 unsecured bail pending a preliminary hearing.