CITY OF BRADFORD POLICE SAY 30-YEAR-OLD NATHAN SWAIN WAS CHARGED WITH DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND PUBLIC DRUNKENESS AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY TRIED TO CONFRONT A PEARL STREET RESIDENT WITH A BASEBALL BAT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.  THE REPORT SAYS THAT WHEN HE GOT TO THE MAGISTRATE’S OFFICE, HE BECAME VIOLENT AND THREATENED TO HARM OFFICERS.  SWAIN IS IN THE MCKEAN COUNTY JAIL IN LIEU OF $10,000 BAIL.

STATE POLICE REPORT THAT 55-YEAR-OLD DONNA HAMPSHIRE OF DUBOIS HAS BEEN CHARGED FOR ALLEGEDLY SELLING ADDERALL AND XANAX IN THE AREA.  LAST JULY, TROOPERS CONDUCTED AN INVESTIGATION THAT LEAD TO HAMPSHIRE SELLING THE DRUGS TO AN UNDERCOVER OFFICER.  HER PRELIMINATRY HEARING IS JULY 10^TH.

THE ANNUAL DUBOIS COMMUNITY DAYS ARE SET TO TAKE PLACE THIS WEEKEND IN THE CITY.  THE SCHEDULE INCLUDES A WEEKEND OF ENTERTAINMENT, FOOD, FAMILY ACTIVITES, PLUS THE ANNUAL PARADE, FIREWORKS AND MUCH MORE AT DUBOIS CITY PARK.  ORGANIZERS SAY THIS YEAR’S EVENT IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST IN RECENT MEMORY THAT HAS EXPANDED THANKS TO COMMUNITY SUPPORT. 

THE WAIT IS DOWN TO 3 DAYS IN THE CITY OF ST. MARYS.  THAT “WAIT” IS FOR THE OPENING OF THE COMMUNITY POOL ON MONDAY AT NOON.  CITY PARKS AND RECREATION DIRECTOR, DANIELLE KUGLER, SAYS THE POOL WILL BE OPEN EACH DAY AND WILL CLOSE ON A DIFFERING SCHEDULE.  23 LIFEGUARDS ARE ON STAFF, A LARGE INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR.  FOR DETAILS ON THE POOL SCHEDULE, LOG ON TO THE COMMUNITY POOL FACEBOOK PAGE.

STATE POLICE REPORT THAT 35-YEAR-OLD ERIC BAILES IS BACK IN CUSTODY.  BAILES IS A JEFFERSON COUNTY JAIL INMATE ASSIGNED TO A WORK RELEASE PROGRAM WHO LEFT A JOB SITE AND FAILED TO RETURN.  TROOPERS SAY THAT HE LEFT THE PREMISIS OF UTILITIES AND INDUSTRIES IN REYNOLDSVILLE BETWEEN 2 AND 3PM ON MONDAY AND DIDN’T COME BACK.  OFFICERS REPORTED THAT HE WAS IN THEIR CUSTODY ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.  AUTHORITES SAY THAT ADDITIONAL CHARGES ARE PENDING.

36-YEAR-OLD KATIE NEAL OF DUBOIS HAS BEEN CHARGED FOR SPENDING NEARLY $2,000 ON SOMEONE ELSE’S CREDIT CARD.  STATE POLICE WERE DISPATCHED TO PENN HIGHLANDS JEFFERSON MANOR LAST FEBRUARY AND TALKED WITH THE VICTIM’S WIFE.  SHE TOLD THEM SHE RECEIVED A SHEETZ BILL FOR $1800 AND THAT HER HUSBAND DID NOT MAKE THE PURCHASES.  AFTER AN INVESTIGATION, VIDEO SURVEILLANCE IDENTIFIED NEAL, WHO ALLEGEDLY CONFESSED TO ALL OF THE CHARGES ON THE CREDIT CARD STATEMENT.  SHE IS DUE IN COURT FOR HER PRELIMINARY HEARING ON JULY 2^ND.

THE ST. MARYS AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS A NEW ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT.  ANDREW KEPHART WAS APPROVED AT THIS WEEK’S SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TO BEGIN WORK ON OR AROUND JULY 1^ST.  KEPHART IS CURRENTLY THE PRINCIPAL AT CURWENSVILLE JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL.  HE WILL BE WORKING UNDER NEW SUPERINTENDENT, CHRISSY KUHAR.

ANOTHER APPEAL, AND ANOTHER DENIAL FOR CONVICTED MURDERER ANTHONY FENTON.  THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT DENIED FENTON’S APPEAL THAT WAS FILED AFTER THE STATE SUPERIOR COURT RULED THE SAME LATE IN 2025.  FENTON WAS ARRESTED AFTER THE 2021 DEATH OF TAMMY PROSSER AT AN APARTMENT ON MAIN STREET IN BRADFORD.  HE WAS CONVICTED AFTER A WEEK-LONG TRIAL IN 2024 AND SENTENCED TO 18 TO 36 YEARS.

CITY POLICE HAVE CHARGED 42-YEAR-OLD JUSTIN MORLEY OF WARREN AFTER HE STOOD NAKED OUTSIDE GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ON MONDAY.  A WITNESS CALLED POLICE TO REPORT THAT THERE WAS A MAN WEARING ONLY HIS UNDERWEAR ON THE STEPS OF THE CHURCH CAUSING TRAFFIC TO STOP ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE EAST.  MORELY ALLEGEDLY EXPOSED HIMSELF TO VEHICLES AND WAVED AS THEY PASSED BY.  THE AFFIDAVIT STATED THAT HE ADMITTED TO TAKING MUSHROOMS AND CLAIMING TO BE JESUS.  MORLEY IS IN THE WARREN COUNTY JAIL WITH BAIL SET AT $25,000.

STATE POLICE IN CLARION REPORT THAT 60-YEAR-OLD RODNEY WALTERS OF DUBOIS WAS HOSPITALIZED AFTER A VEHICLE MALFUNCTION CAUSED HIS MOTORCYCLE TO ROLL OVER MULTIPLE TIMES ON INTERSTATE 80.  THE CRASH OCCURRED AT JUST AFTER 2PM ON JUNE 5^TH NEAR MILE MARKER 64.  WALTERS WAS UNABLE TO REGAIN CONTROL OF HIS MOTORCYCLE, WAS THROWN FROM THE SEAT AND LANDED IN THE LEFT LANE OF THE ROADWAY.  HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO CLARION HOSPITAL WITH SERIOUS INJURIES.

THE INVESTIGATION INTO A STRING OF CATALYTIC CONVERTER THEFTS CONTINUES.  STATE POLICE OUT OF DUBOIS TELLUS SOMETIME BETWEEN APRIL 28^TH AND MAY 27^TH OF THIS YEAR, 5 UNITS WERE TAKEN FROM VEHICLES ALONG BENNETTS VALLEY HIGHWAY IN HUSTON TOWNSHIP.  POLICE SAY THE THEFTS WERE DONE QUIETLY AND WITH CLEAN CUTS.  ANYONE WITH ANY INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CALL POLICE.

A 9-YEAR-OLD BOY CONTINUES TO RECEIVE CARE AT UPMC CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL IN PITTSBURGH AFTER BEING HIT BY A MOVING VEHICLE ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN JEFFERSON COUNTY.  ACCORDING TO POLICE, IT HAPPENED JUST BEFORE 5:30 ON WATT STREET IN BIG RUN.  THE BOY WAS HIT BY A 17-YEAR-OLD PUNXSUTAWNEY TEEN DRIVER.  AFTER ASSESMENT AT THE SCENE, THE BOY WAS FLOWN TO PITTSBURGH FOR FURTHER TREATMENT. 

MORE GOOD NEWS AT THE GAS PUMP THIS WEEK.  TRIPLE A’S LATEST FUEL REPORT SHOWS PRICES ARE DOWN 8 CENTS A GALLON THIS WEEK TO REST AT 4.51 ON AVERAGE IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.  THE LOWEST PRICE IN OUR AREA COMES IN BROOKVILLE, WHERE IT AVERAGES 4.33. 

CITY OF BRADFORD POLICE SAY 57-YEAR-OLD ANDREA BORZA-HOLMES HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND POSESSING DRUG PARAPHERNALIA AFTER AN INCIDENT ON SATURDAY MORNING.  SHE ALLEGEDLY TRIED TO BREAK HER OWN WINDOWS, HAD WAR-PAINT ON HER FACE AND WAS WEARING A LAMP SHADE ON HER HEAD. OFFICERS WENT ON TO SAY THAT SHE CONTINUED TO SMASH ITEMS INSIDE THE RESIDENCE EVEN AFTER A MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL ARRIVED AT THE SCENE.  BORZA-HOLMES IS AWAITING HER PRELIMINARY HEARING.

STATE POLICE HAVE CHARGED 53-YEAR-OLD MELISSA REITZ OF BROCKWAY AND 44-YEAR-OLD CHRISTINE ALLSHOUSE OF BROOKVILLE WITH RETAIL THEFT.  TROOPERS SAY THAT THE INCIDENTS OCCURRED ON FEBRUARY 25^TH AND MARCH 10^TH OF 2025 AT THE GOODWILL STORE ON ROUTE 219 IN SNYDER TOWNSHIP.  ALLSHOUSE WAS AN EMPLOYEE AT THE TIME AND SHE ALLEGEDLY PRETENDED TO SCAN NUMEROUS ITEMS TOTALING JUST UNDER $225 DOLLARS.  SECURITY CAMERAS CAPTURED THE CRIMES.  BOTH WOMEN ARE DUE IN COURT FOR THEIR PRELIMINARY HEARINGS ON JULY 28^TH.

PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE SAY A FIRE COMPLETELY DESTROYED A 1995 FIFTH-WHEEL CAMPER EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING.  THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AT JUST AFTER 5:30AM ON JUNE 3^RD ON BRYAN LANE IN PENN TOWNSHIP.  THE FIRE MARSHALL WAS CALLED IN TO INVESTIGATE THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE AND IT WAS DETERMINED TO BE ACCIDENTAL.  THERE WERE NO INJURIES REPORTED AND THE TOTAL DAMAGE WAS ESTIMATED AT $5,000.

STATE POLICE IN DUBOIS ARRESTED 51-YEAR-OLD TROY KNISLEY OF REYNOLDSVILLE ON MAY 27^TH AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY THREW A PIECE OF A BROKEN CERAMIC PLATE AT A WOMAN DURING A DOMESTIC DISPUTE.  TROOPERS SAY THAT IT OCCURRED AT A RESIDENCE ON EAST MAIN STREET IN THE BOROUGH AND THEY WERE CALLED TO THE SCENE AT JUST BEFORE 8PM.  THE VICTIM WAS TRANSPORTED TO PENN HIGHLANDS DUBOIS FOR TREATMENT.  KNISLEY FACES CHARGES INCLUDING SIMPLE ASSAULT AND HARASSMENT AND IS DUE IN COURT FOR HIS PRELIMINARY HEARING ON JUNE 22^ND.

THE FOLLOWING STORY IS COURTESY OF YOUR DAILY LOCAL IN WARREN.  READ MORE HERE.  

ST. MARYS WILL BE LOOKING FOR A NEW CITY MANAGER SOON.  CURRENT CITY CHIEF, JOE FLEMING, HAS TENDERED HIS RESIGNATION AS HE HAS BEEN SELECTED AS THE NEW CITY MANAGER FOR THE CITY OF DUBOIS.  FLEMING, WHO HAS BEEN IN ST. MARYS SINCE MAY OF 2021, WILL BEGIN HIS NEW JOB ON JULY 6TH.  

STATE POLICE OUT OF LEWIS RUN ARE INVESTIGATING A THEFT CASE THAT HAPPENED LAST SATURDAY.  THEY TELL US SOMEBODY TOOK A 12 FOOT FISHING KAYAK AND TRAILER FROM WILLOW BAY CAMPGROUND IN CORYDON TOWNSHIP.  THE TRAILER HAD VARIOUS FISHING ITEMS ON IT AS WELL.  TOTAL VALUE OF THE THEFT IS OVER 12 HUNDRED DOLLARS.  ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CALL POLICE.