CRIME & SAFETY
Drugs seized from Monroe County hotel room, three arrested
BARTONSVILLE, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Three men were arrested after police say various drugs were found in a Monroe County hotel room. The Monroe County Office of the District Attorney Criminal Investigations Division announced the arrests of the following three men; Police say a search was conducted at a hotel room at the Night Lodge […]
Truck driver runs from multi-vehicle crash on I-80, PSP says
STROUD TOWNSHIP, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The Monroe County Control Center has confirmed there was a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 80 on Monday. According to 511PA traffic was backed due to a multi-vehicle crash at 1:36 p.m. on I-80 as police were at the scene of the crash near Exit 302 B (Bartonsville). 28/22 News […]
PSP: 19 Guns, 3 vehicles stolen from Monroe County home
SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The Pennsylvania State Police are investigating an incident in Smithfield Township where multiple guns and vehicles were taken in a reported burglary. On April 30, PSP sent out a release explaining troopers were called on April 19 to the area of Orchard Road and Marshalls Creek Road at around […]
Man sentenced for conspiracy to straw purchase firearms
EYEWITNESS NEWS (WBRE/WYOU) — The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of PA announced Tuesday that an East Stroudsburg man was sentenced to prison for conspiring to straw purchase firearms. Officials say that Windall Mitchell, 34, of East Stroudsburg, Monroe County, was sentenced on Tuesday, to two years and six months in prison […]
Ski ranger reunites with lifesavers after surviving cardiac arrest
EAST STROUDSBURG, MONROE CO. (WOLF) — A ski ranger who survived Cardiac Arrest in Monroe County last year reunited with his doctors and the people who provided first aid today at the Lehigh Valley Hospital in East Stroudsburg this morning. Steve Bomberger is from Chester County and spends his...
Man accused of stealing $6,000 from gambling machine
EAST STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Police are searching for a man after he allegedly stole $6,000 from a gambling machine. On February 5, the Stroud Area Regional Police Department was called to a theft report at Sunoco Uni-Mart on Prospect Street in East Stroudsburg. Officers say the man pictured removed $6,115 from a Pennsylvania […]
PSP: Car ignites on fire due to dry leaves
CHESTNUT HILL TWP., MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — State police report a car ignited on fire due to dry leaves near the exhaust. State police report a car went up in flames on the side of Effort-Neola Road near the intersection of Little Mexico Road in Chestnuthill Twp, Monroe County. The driver returned to his car […]
PD: Coop set on fire kills chicken, charges filed
POCONO TWP., MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man is facing charges after police said he set a chicken coop on fire killing one chicken. On Saturday, April 27 around 10:40 p.m., Pocono Township Police Department was called to a home in Swiftwater for an incident. Through further investigation, police stated Dwayne Nicholas, 52 from Swiftwater, […]
Search for two wanted after alleged retail theft
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Two people are wanted for an alleged retail theft at the Stroud Mall. On April 28 officers were called to the JC Penney in the Stroud Mall for a reported retail theft. Police say a man and a woman entered the store around 2:30 p.m., hid clothing and jewelry, walked […]
PSP: suspects scammed man out of over $100k by pretending to be federal agents
BLOOMING GROVE TOWNSHIP, PIKE CO. (WOLF) — Pennsylvania State Police say a Pike County man was scammed out of $100,000 by three people pretending to be federal agents. Troopers say on March 26, it was reported that a Hawley man was scammed on three occasions by three people, a 24-year-old Scranton man, and two men, 39 and 47, both from Jersey City, New Jersey.
Pennsylvania man killed grandmother, burned her body because he thought she was the devil, police say
Pennsylvania State Police say a Pike County man stabbed his grandmother and set her on fire because he believed she was the devil. George F. Sisco, 28, of Milford, has been charged with criminal homicide in the death of Margie S. Finlay, 67, of Milford, according to reports from the Pocono Record and WBRE/WYOU.
Two Monroe County brothers plead not guilty Tuesday to Jan. 6 riot charges
Two Monroe County brothers accused of assaulting police during the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. pleaded not guilty Tuesday. Andrew Valentin, 26, and Matthew Valentin, 31, entered the plea during a videoconference call before Senior U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton, a federal judge in Washington, D.C.
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