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.
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Three charged with DUI
One moment Bayli Kurtz was speeding and the next moment the 25-year-old Armstrong Township woman was rolling in her 2012 Ford Focus after the car hit an embankment along Middle Road in Limestone Township about 8:45 p.m. on March 11, according to state police. The vehicle landed upright.
Kurtz, of 45 French Settlement Road, told a state trooper at the scene that she was “not exactly sure what happened,” but she did admit to speeding, court records stated.
The trooper reported Kurtz had “a moderate odor of alcohol” coming from her body. She did admit to having an alcoholic beverage within the last hour, police said.
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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