Four people charged with DUI
Suspected drunk driver Taurance Johnson, of 1122 Charles St., had been taken into custody and driven by a state trooper to UPMC Williamsport, where he freely submitted a blood sample on the morning of Feb. 28, according to court records.
However, after he was released by police, Johnson, 39, sent a text message to the hospital “offering to pay whatever or give whatever to have his blood-alcohol concentration level altered to be under .08,” a trooper alleged in an affidavit.
Johnson, driving a 2003 Ford Explorer, was stopped in the area of Riverside Drive and Maynard Street in South Williamsport about 12:10 a.m. after a state trooper recognized him and knew his license was suspended, the affidavit stated.
May 6, 2021
In a plea agreement before District Judge Jerry C. Lepley in Jersey Shore, Tiadaghton Valley Regional police dropped a charge of illegal sale of a firearm against Aidan Sweeley, 21, of Avis, after he agreed to plead guilty to a charge of making unsworn falsification to authorities.
The charges stemmed from Sweeley putting down false information on a form when he attempted to purchase a firearm at National Sporting Goods on Allegheny Street in the borough last June 24, police alleged. Sweeley made arrangements to pay a $495 fine plus court costs.
In another plea agreement, this one before District Judge William Solomon, Maleak Benjamin, 24, of 1638 Andrews Place, pled guilty to Old Lycoming Township police charges of possession of marijuana and driving without a license, and made arrangements to pay a $250 fine plus court cost.
After allegedly stealing a pickup truck near Elimsport and driving it to the Lairdsville area, where he fired a rifle into an occupied home, Lucas Drick was tak
City man charged in connection with January shooting
As Nichole Gillard and ex-boyfriend Darren Donnell Brown fought with one another in Gillard’s apartment, Brown suddenly fired the gun he had in his hand in close proximity to her head, city police alleged in a court document
Although no one was hurt in the shooting that occurred at the Timberland Apartments, 750 W. Edwin St., on the afternoon of Jan. 9, the gunfire caused Gillard’s ears to ring, police said.
Brown, 30, of 331 Center St., fled the scene before police arrived, but he has since been arrested and taken into custody on felony and misdemeanor charges, including aggravated assault and carrying a firearm without license, police said.