Car left running on Lafayette Road disappears: Portsmouth police log
7:42 a.m.: Verbal warning given to a Middle Street and Austin Street driver.
7:43 a.m.: Verbal warning given to a Lafayette Road and Greenleaf Avenue driver.
8:30 a.m.: Traffic enforcement completed at Aldrich Road and Boss Avenue.
8:35 a.m.: Ledgewood Drive caller said a woman was acting strange and yelling before passing out on a laundry room table. The caller said the woman was not a tenant of the building. Police later served her a trespass and moved her along.
9:18 a.m.: Verbal warning given to a Middle Street and Summer Street driver.
Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department has announced that five suspects connected to a series of shootings that occurred in the Poconos on Monday night have been apprehended.
During a Tuesday press conference, PMRPD Chief Chris Wagner stated that the individuals including an unidentified 15-year-old, 19-year-old Aja’nay Watson, 20-year-old Jahlayah Blondell, 21-year-old Soladin Hamilton and 22-year-old Laron Watson, all from Tobyhanna have been arrested and will be charged as of Jan. 19.
During the Tuesday conference, Wagner said that police were dispatched to multiple scenes for multiple shootings with multiple victims throughout Coolbaugh Township, Monroe County on Jan. 18.
The shootings were the result of a case of mistaken identity, Wagner and the Monroe County District Attorney s office stated.
Further details have emerged regarding the series of shootings in Tobyhanna Township that occurred on Monday evening, painting a complex picture of violence stemming from a case of mistaken identity.
On Tuesday evening, the Monroe County District Attorney’s office issued a release on the matter, clarifying the connections, or lack thereof, between the assailants and victims, establishing a motivation for the shooters, and boiling down a series of interrogations to offer some explanation as to how an incorrect assumption about a vehicle’s owner led to an onslaught of gun battles throughout the area.
Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department Chief Chris Wagner announced Tuesday that five suspects – including an unidentified 15-year-old, 19-year-old Aja’nay Watson, 20-year-old Jahlayah Blondell, 21-year-old Soladin Hamilton and 22-year-old Laron Watson, all from Tobyhanna – had been apprehended, and were set to be charged in connection with a series of gun battles that saw
4 wounded in Poconos shooting spree as police still search for shooter
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
Four people were wounded Monday night in a shooting spree in the Poconos, and police are still searching for the gunman or gunmen.
Pocono Mountain Regional Police had residents sheltering in place on the Route 196 corridor, and in the Pocono Country Place and Pocono Farms East developments in Monroe County.
The shelter order was lifted at about 3 a.m. Tuesday, but police have not reported any arrests. In a community alert, police said the investigation was ongoing but that they did not believe the public was in imminent danger.