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03, Jun 2012 - Wilkes Barre Regional Briefs 5/10/2012
REGIONAL BRIEFS Witness arrested in New Jersey WILKES-BARRE - Authorities on Wednesday arrested the victim in a June 2010 Plains Twp. shooting after he repeatedly failed to show up in court and testify against his alleged shooter. U.S. marshals apprehend
03, Jun 2012 - Wilkes Barre Luzerne County budget shortfall could top $4M - Standard Speaker
WILKES-BARRE - Despite a 2-percent increase in Luzerne ... Personnel costs at the county prison are projected to cost $1.2 million more than the prison's $12.7 million allocation. The prison's day-reporting center was also seriously underfunded ...
03, Jun 2012 - Wilkes Barre Guyanese man deported from US four times to be charged with illegal re-entry - Stabroek News
He was arrested in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in March this year. According to the report, he faces up to 70 years in prison and more than US$1 million in fines if convicted.
03, Jun 2012 - Wilkes Barre Coach pleads not guilty in porn case - Scranton Times-Tribune
Then, he asked Mr. Ostrowski to make a plea. "Not guilty, your honor," said Mr. Ostrowski, wearing a green prison jumpsuit. Mr. Ostrowski, 28, of Wilkes-Barre, was head varsity football coach at Holy Redeemer High School until his arrest May 7 ...
03, Jun 2012 - Wilkes Barre Mt. Pocono woman admits embezzling from union - Pocono Record
A Monroe County woman pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to stealing more than $41,000 from the Wilkes-Barre electricians union local ... she could be sentenced to six months in prison if she makes full restitution before her sentencing ...
03, Jun 2012 - Archdale Ashe resident gets 50 years in prison, ordered to pay $35.3 million - Wilkes Journal Patriot
Tompkins, U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Keith Franklin Simmons ... Roy E. Scarboro, 47, of Archdale, pled guilty on Dec. 3, 2010, to securities fraud, money laundering, and making false statements to the FBI.
03, Jun 2012 - Piscataway Drug agents raid suspected meth lab in Wilkes-Barre - Times-Leader
Court records say Grodis is wanted on an arrest warrant ... arraignment on drug offenses. City police charged Grodis in March 2011, with possessing methamphetamine, syringes and pills without a prescription, the criminal complaint says.
03, Jun 2012 - Wilkesboro 50 years given in Ponzi case - Wilkes Journal Patriot
Tompkins, U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Standing before U.S. District Judge ... on the victims seldom seen by this court,” said Conrad. Simmons was convicted of wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering in late ...
02, Jun 2012 - Nanticoke Husband, wife will stand trial on meth charges - Times-Leader
WILKES-BARRE – A husband and wife charged over their alleged roles in manufacturing and trafficking methamphetamine in Luzerne and Columbia counties ... packages were also found near the group. Police said that in the bag they found batteries ...
02, Jun 2012 - Elkin 3 charged in theft of $5K in cigarettes - WXII 12
Three people with masks broke in to the Run In Store at 2484 Elkin Highway in North Wilkesboro around 4:30 ... All three suspects are already being held in the Surry County Jail. Surry County officials called North Wilkesboro police, believing the suspects ...
02, Jun 2012 - Marine Champaign police arrest 3 for robbery - News-Gazette
Champaign police said they arrested Ronald ... a May 8 robbery at the Central Illinois Credit Union, 2106 W. John St., C, according to police. Wilkerson and Jackson also are suspected of a robbery on Monday at Marine Bank, 1001 S.
02, Jun 2012 - Hazleton NE Pa. man gets life term in 2010 slaying of woman
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A northeastern Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole in the shooting death of a woman that authorities said was over a debt. A Luzerne County jury deliberated for more than seven hours before convicting 22-year-old Benjamin Westbrooks of Hazleton of first-degree murder on Friday. Prosecutors said he abducted 20-year-old ...
02, Jun 2012 - Hazleton Area man gets life in Hazleton stabbing - Times-Leader
WILKES-BARRE – A Hazleton man convicted of first-degree murder in the January 2011 stabbing of another man was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison, and an additional 20 to 40 years behind bars. Rodolfo Hiraldo Perez, 25, was convicted of first-degree ...
02, Jun 2012 - Augusta Easton man charged with assault also had scales, crack cocaine, police say - LehighValleyLive.com
Lamar Jacob Martinez, 27, of 306 McKeen Street in Easton, was arrested this morning after allegedly attacking Tasha Jones in the 1000 block of West Wilkes Barre Street. When police found him walking nearby, he allegedly had a scale which had ...
02, Jun 2012 - Lumpkin UGA, Athens police plan vehicle safety checkpoints for early morning hours of May 18 - Red and Blac
In March, UGA Police set up two checkpoints, one on Pulaski Street and the other on Broad Street during the night of St. Patrick’s Day and arrested eight people ... one at Baxter Street and Lumpkin Street and the other at Wilkerson Street.
02, Jun 2012 - Hazleton Suspect in W-B theft sought in 2002 Fort Worth homicide
WILKES-BARRE - A man arrested for stealing a grill at a home-improvement store Friday was wanted for a decade-old slaying in Texas, according to court documents. Rafael Munoz, of 57 Ridge St., Glen Lyon, is being held in Luzerne County Correctional Faci
02, Jun 2012 - Clairton Man wanted in NE Pa. slaying arrested in Philly - WNCT
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) A man wanted in a shooting ... custody on Friday night by city police, federal marshals and members of a state police fugitive task force. He was being sought on a Luzerne County criminal homicide charge in the May 16 ...
02, Jun 2012 - Sylvester Elderly Augusta man arrested for shooting at garbage truck driver - Augusta Chronicle
According to an incident report, Sylvester Wilkerson Jr., 69, of Kelly Street, was driving the Barry Smith Sanitation truck near Forsyth Street around 10:45 a.m. when he noticed a small brown car following him. The vehicle’s driver ...
02, Jun 2012 - Sylvester Augusta man, 77, arrested after shooting at garbage truck - Augusta Chronicle
A 77-year-old Augusta man is in custody after he fired a shotgun at a garbage truck Wednesday. According to an incident report, Sylvester Wilkerson Jr., 69, of Kelly Street, was driving the Barry Smith Sanitation truck near Forsyth Street about ...
02, Jun 2012 - Carrizo Springs Police arrest wrong man in Texas slaying - Citizen's Voice
The theft suspect who Wilkes-Barre police arrested Friday in connection with a 2002 murder in Forth Worth, Texas, is not wanted ... were entered into a national crime database. The results indicate he was wanted for homicide, police said.
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| National Arrest Records Statistics (2009) |
| Total | 13,687,241 | |
| Murder and manslaughter | 12,418 | |
| Rape | 21,407 | |
| Robbery | 126,725 | |
| Aggravated Assault | 421,215 | |
| Burglary | 299,351 | |
| Larceny-theft | 1,334,933 | |
| Motor vehicle theft | 81,797 | |
| Arson | 12,204 | |
| Violent crime | 581,765 | |
| Property crime | 1,728,285 | |
| Other assaults | 1,319,458 | |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 85,844 | |
| Fraud | 210,255 | |
| Embezzlement | 17,920 | |
| Stolen property | 105,303 | |
| Vandalism | 270,439 | |
| Weapons | 166,334 | |
| Prostitution / vice | 71,355 | |
| Sex offenses (except rape) | 77,326 | |
| Drug abuse | 1,663,582 | |
| Gambling | 10,360 | |
| Offenses against family and children | 114,564 | |
| DUI / DWI | 1,440,409 | |
| Liquor laws | 570,333 | |
| Drunkenness | 594,300 | |
| Disorderly conduct | 655,322 | |
| Vagrancy | 33,388 | |
| All other offenses | 3,764,672 | |
| Suspicion | 1,975 | |
| Curfew and loitering | 112,593 | |
| Runaways | 93,434 |
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