Saturday, May 18, 2013
Phillipsburg man charged with having psychedelic mushrooms in hotel on Palmer Township border.
A Phillipsburg man now apparently living in Easton is accused of having two bags of psychedelic mushrooms in a Lower Nazareth Township motel room in April. Melvin Lee Pettaway, 43, also is accused of giving police a false identity during the incident on April 12, around 7:30 p.m. After police allegedly found two bags of psilocybin mushrooms inside Pettaway’s room at the Hampton Inn on Route 248, he told them his name was Kyle Thomas, court records say. Pettaway’s file does not contain an affidavit of probable cause, which provides details of the arrest and evidence. The file does say that an arrest warrant was approved April 23. The file’s lead sheet lists Pettaway’s address as 314 B S. Main St., Phillipsburg. But another sheet in the file…
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Easton woman charged with cashing two counterfeit checks at Walmart in Lower Nazareth Township.
An Easton woman is accused of cashing two counterfeit checks at the Walmart in Lower Nazareth Township in December, according to court papers. Theresa Mulhearn, 45, of 700 Walnut St., allegedly cashed the fake checks—each for $397—on Dec. 16, according to a complaint filed by Colonial Regional Police. The printing on the checks indicated that they came from Express Healthcare Services from Reading, but the account and routing numbers belonged to a different business—Interim Health Care of Blakely in Lackawanna County, according to the affidavit of probable cause. The owner of Interim Health Care told police that Mulhearn did not work for him nor was there any reason why she would have received a check from his company, the affidavit said. …
Easton couple gets state prison sentence for holding up Lower Nazareth pharmacy.
An Easton couple could spend the next decade in state prison for robbing a local pharmacy to feed their drug habit, according to published reports. Gregory and Lindsey Dalrymple, both 30, received state prison terms Monday in Northampton County Court after a judge heard from a pharmacist at the Lower Nazareth Walmart who testified about being robbed by the couple last year. "He kept yelling I had three seconds to get the Fentanyl into the bag or I would get shot," pharmacist Scott Gordon testified, later adding: "I thought this was the end for me." That's according to the Morning Call, which notes that a second Walmart employee testified that she still has flashbacks about the robbery on Aug. 6. The Express-Times reports that Gregory got a…
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Easton teenager arrested and arraigned for September retail theft at Target, court documents indicate.
Police have made an arrest in a September retail theft case in which a female teenager and another woman tried to walk out of the Target in Lower Nazareth Township with about $420 in merchandise stuffed into an orange tote container. Court records say store employees stopped the women, including suspect Khadijha Demaris Noone, 18, of Easton, as they left the store the afternoon of Sept. 28, a Friday. But the women fled on foot without taking the merchandise and got away in a black 1998 Volkswagen Jetta. The Target is at 3835 Dryland Way near the intersection of Routes 33 and 248. The records list Noone’s retail theft charge as her first offense. They also list her address as the 800 block of W. Berwick Street, although another listing in …
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Police said incident involved Monroe County man in parking lot of Walmart in Lower Nazareth Township.
Police spotted a Monroe County man urinating on the parking lot of Walmart in Lower Nazareth Township and discovered he had a stun gun and a flare gun. The gun problem for the man, Robert James Forgione, 45, of Canadensis, is that he’s not allowed to have guns because of previous burglary convictions in New York, court records say. The case, handled by Colonial Regional police, began about 9:40 Sunday night when Officer A. Laudenslager saw Forgione urinating on the parking lot of Walmart in the Northampton Crossings shopping center at Routes 33 and 248. Laudenslager writes in a criminal complaint he then saw a blue metal smoking device with marijuana residue on the center console of Forgione’s vehicle – a blue 2009 Nissan Titan PU, a …
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Ian Shoemaker, 29, was apprehended three weeks after Nazareth police issued a warrant for his arrest; he is tied to vehicle break-ins that also involve a Nazareth mom and two teenage boys.
Police arrested a Nazareth man over the weekend, more than three weeks after court records said he is facing 410 criminal counts related to a vehicle break-in spree based in Nazareth. Ian Scott Shoemaker, 29, of the unit block of N. Main St., was taken into custody in Plainfield Township after claiming to be a Nebraska resident planning to take a bus back home the next day. The break-in spree, according to the records, also involved Christine Petchonka, 46, also of Nazareth, who is accused of driving her 16-year-old son and his friend, also 16, as they broke into unlocked vehicles. Shoemaker also was in the car during the spree, the records say. At the time of Petchonka’s arrest, Nazareth Police Chief Thomas Trachta estimated that $20,000 …
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
The Lehigh County coroner identified Gertrude M. Babin, 88, of Bethlehem as one of the two people killed in a two-car accident on Hanoverville Road in Lower Nazareth Township.
The Lehigh County Coroner's officer has identified one of the victims in Wednesday morning's two-car crash in Lower Nazareth Township. Gertrude M. Babin, 88, of Bethlehem was pronounced dead at 10:16 a.m. at St. Luke's University Hospital in Fountain Hill. An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday, according to a press release. A second person traveling in a station wagon with Babin was also killed, according to a report in The Express-Times, but has not been identified. The Northampton County coroner was called to the scene of a rollover accident in front of 4519 Hanoverville Road around 10 a.m. Wednesday. Colonial Regional Police Chief Roy Seiple told The Express-Times that a dog traveling in a pickup truck was also killed. The driver of the …
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
After getting into an argument, police say, Nicholas Joseph Yonak, 32, of Lower Nazareth Township, allegedly tied up his girlfriend with rope, placed handcuffs on her and forced a sock into her mouth.
A Lower Nazareth Township man, with the help of a male friend, tied up his girlfriend with rope and placed handcuffs on her early Monday, then forced her to take a prescription sedative, court records say. The suspect, Nicholas Joseph Yonak, 32, and his friend “attempted to silence” the woman by forcing a sock into her mouth. They carried her downstairs and later carried her back to her home, the records say. The incident, the woman told police, was triggered by an argument between her and Yonak. Yonak, of 4349 Newburg Road, Apt. C, was charged with simple assault and unlawful restraint. He was committed to Northampton County Prison after failing to post $10,000 bail. A criminal complaint filed by Patrolman Anthony Kovalovsky of Colonial …
Sunday, August 5, 2012
The Lehigh Valley Sikh community of about 400 families is disturbed by Sunday's mass shooting at a temple in a Milwaukee suburb.
The Sikh Society of Lehigh Valley - found among farm fields and a few houses in Northampton County - is a religious center you might never notice. For the 400 families the temple serves, however, the seclusion has become a cause for alarm. Seven people were killed and many others wounded in a Sunday morning mass shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, a suburb of Milwaukee. Police said three bodies were found outside the temple and four were inside the building. The gunman is among the dead in what police are calling a "well-coordinated attack." "We need protection here, too," said Jaswinder Singh, a committee member at the local Sikh temple in Lower Nazareth Township. "We’re not feeling safe." While children -- some too …
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
After stopping for lunch at the Panera Bread in Lower Nazareth Township, a mother and daughter from Palmer Township are forced to take action when they notice their car starts to... meow.
How do those “Born to be Wild” lyrics go? Get your motor running, head out on the highway, Looking for adventure in whatever comes our way. Ah, yes. I’m sure those were the exact lyrics playing through the mind of the 2.2 pound kitten who decided to hitch a ride -- for just under 10 miles -- inside the engine compartment of a Palmer Township woman’s car. If you think the kitten was surprised by her suddenly traveling napping spot, imagine what went through the minds of 17-year-old Katie Miller and her mother, Karen, when they stopped for lunch Tuesday afternoon at the Panera Bread in Lower Nazareth Township and realized their car was… meowing. According to Karen Miller, she and her daughter had arrived at the Panera Bread in the …
Ben Miller
4:49 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
I guess I missed the section of Patch where it said this was a journalistic endeavor, as opposed to a community message board. What kind of a person picks a story about two people being killed, to complain about the way the article was written? more ›