CRIME & SAFETY
Trio Caught With Drugs In Monroe County Hotel Room, DA Says
Twenty-nine-year-old Brandon Cabrera of Effort, 32-year-old Christopher Ferraro of East Stroudsburg, and 28-year-old Dylan Smith of Stroudsburg all face drug an paraphernalia charges, said the Monroe County District Attorney's Office. According to prosecutors, Monroe County Probation and Parole Officers went to a hotel on Route 611 after receiving information that...
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 […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Man arrested for lighting chicken coop on fire, killing chicken
EAST STROUDSBURG, MONROE CO. (WOLF) — Police say a Monroe County man lit a chicken coop on fire, killing one chicken and injuring two more. According to the Pocono Township Police Department, on April 27, officers responded to a residence in Swiftwater for a report of a domestic incident.
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...
Police help rescue ducklings from storm drain
WEATHERLY, CARBON COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Carbon County police report an office helped rescue a mother duck and her ducklings from a storm drain. On Tuesday, Weatherly Police were called for a traffic problem in the area of Hudsondale Street due to several ducklings and the mother duck stranded in the roadway. Officer Michael Eyer responded […]
Nearly $5,000 worth of gas stolen from truck stop in Carbon County, state police say
WHITE HAVEN, Pa. - Pennsylvania State Police say almost $5,000 worth of gasoline was stolen from a truck stop in Carbon County last week. Troopers were sent to the Onvo Travel Plaza at Route 534 in White Haven, Carbon County on April 24 for the report of 1200 gallons of diesel fuel stolen, according to a news release from state police.
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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