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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.
Six charged in separate drug cases
Upon entering David Lopez’s city apartment at 1037 Dewey Ave. with a search warrant on April 27, members of the county’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit (NEU) discovered packaged crack cocaine in a safe, a dresser and a bedroom closet, according to an affidavit filed at Frey’s office.
Also in the safe was a stolen handgun, investigators said, adding that Lopez, 28, had on him an estimated $3,000 of suspected drug money and two cellphones, one a girlfriend told police was his “drug work phone,” court records stated.
An estimated two ounces of crack cocaine was seized at the scene. Following his arraignment hours later before District Judge Christian Frey on charges of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, illegal possession of a firearm and felony receiving stolen property, Lopez was committed to the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $150,000 bail.
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.
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On the afternoon of March 5, Hughesville Patrolman Ryan Travelpiece approached Timothy Savage in Savage’s car and told him he needed talk to him. The officer asked him to step out of the vehicle.
“He protested, advising that he needed his lawyer and that it was all an entrapment,” the officer said in an affidavit.
The officer had been informed by Old Lycoming Township police to be on the lookout for Savage, 30, because there was a warrant for his arrest for violating a protection from abuse order, according to the affidavit. The officer recognized Savage and saw him sitting in the vehicle outside his home at 127 S. Main St. in the borough.