Police Beat

12-30, Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) assisted the Moscow, Idaho Police Department, Idaho State Police, and the FBI in the apprehension of a suspect in the homicides of four University of Idaho students that occurred Nov. 13. Bryan C. Kohberger, 28, was arrested on a fugitive from justice warrant early morning on Dec. 30 by members of Troop N, PSP-Fern Ridge and the Special Emergency Response Team at a home in Indian Mountain Lakes, in the Chestnuthill Township corner of IML. Kohberger was arraigned before on-call District Judge Michael Muth and remanded to Monroe County Jail, then was extradited to Idaho.

1-14, 10:26 p.m., PMRPD was call to a home on fire on Wilson Court, Coolbaugh Twp. There were concerns the house was occupied, so responding firefighters from the Coolbaugh Volunteer Fire Company sent a team inside. They found a man lying on the floor and took him outside he was pronounced dead by a Monroe County Coroner. The State Police Fire Marshall for this

by Seth Isenberg

area is investigating. An autopsy is being performed on the deceased. Also responding as part of mutual aid for CTVFC were fire companies from Pocono Summit, Mount Pocono, Barrett and from the Tobyhanna Army Depot. Pocono Mountain EMS also was on scene.

1-17 just before 10 a.m., PMRPD was dispatched to a fight off Route 940 in Mount Pocono, near the McDonald’s where a man was wielding a machete and making threats to kill people from another car. Police learned the fight started as a road rage incident where the man got out of his vehicle and made these threats, and then left. Police were able to identify the man as a 31 y/o from Stillwater Lakes, Pocono Summit, Coolbaugh Twp. Police went to his home and confiscated the machete. Charges of terroristic threats, disorderly conduct, harassment, and simple assault are filed.

There was another road rage incident on 1-5 on Route 115 at Gilbert Road where two men first exchanged ‘finger gestures’ just after 4:30 p.m. then pulled over and

PMRPF holds donation drive

Pocono Mountain Regional Police Foundation has instituted a donation drive through January 31. This two-month campaign kicked off with a direct mailing and web communications featuring online donation options. It is planned an annual drive.

“The benefit that PMRPF brings to Pocono Mountain Regional Police is the ability to fund equipment, training and programs that develop outside of the normal operating budget of the agency,” explains Pocono Mountain started a full and foul argument (in front of the children of one of the men) which included the aggressor leaning into the open window of the driver with children’s car. The 52 y/o aggressor was identified by PSP as being from Effort. Police located him and have charged him with disorderly conduct.

Just before 5 p.m. on 1-7, two men, ages 62 and 69, got into an altercation at a Route 903, Albrightsville property where the younger of the two hit the older one with a plastic snow shovel. PSP-F cited the assailant with a charge of harassment.

12-17, PSP-F was called to a Wild Creek Drive, Penn Forest Streams, Penn Forest Twp. home to investigate the death of an 85 y/o man. The investigation is ongoing.

PSP-F conducted an investigation after a ChildLine tip and found no signs of neglect. Another ChildLine tip, of a different child, resulted in charges from an incident on 12-18 where a teenager was choked and hit during an argument.

Keeping the Rubber Side down

Regional Police Chief Chris Wagner. “Some of these needs can develop rapidly and outside of the foresight of annual budgeting.” was towed.

Transparency and legitimacy are important, and the chief assures residents the mailings are to support the department through the sanctioned Foundation. Friends and neighbors are asked to consider participating—contributions great and small are appreciated.

For more information visit PMRPF.com/how-to-donate.

At 5:45 a.m. on 12-13, a deer ran out onto Route 115 and bounced off a Ford driven by a Bear Creek man. On oncoming Toyota then hit the deer that was in the road. The deer carcass came to rest on the northbound shoulder, PSP-F.

A 38 y/o Texan put his 2021 Mercedes Sprinter van rubber side up off Interstate 80 east in Kidder Twp. after losing control of it just before noon on 12-15. No one was hurt.

Just after 9 a.m. on 12-17, a ’13 Hyundai Elantra eastbound on Interstate 80 hit a patch of ice and went sideways to T-bone a ’22 Tesla that was in the wrong place at the wrong time as the cars drove through Kidder Twp. The Hyundai had fender damage and was driven away; the Tesla needed a tow.

Snow on the road was partially to blame for a threevehicle fender-bender on Route 115 in Effort at the Effort-Neola Road at 10:30 a.m. on 12-22. No one was hurt.

Two drivers are dead after their cars came together at high speed on Interstate

80 in Tunkhannock Twp. at 12:30 a.m. on 1-16. PSP reports that both cars were speeding when one car left its lane and hit the other. The crash caused both vehicles to leave the road and roll over. Neither driver was wearing a seatbelt and both were ejected.

The reports these weeks had a variety of cars losing control and driving off into a tree or two. No one hurt, but a lot of damaged metal and scattered auto parts and pieces.

Stealin’

12-18, an Albrightsville 23 y/o is charged with theft for putting household trash in a business’ dumpster in Chestnuthill.

1-6, a 57 y/o Effort woman was caught trying to steal a microwave oven from Kinsley’s in Brodheadsville.

There are several reports of identity theft, and one of a known person stealing money from someone in order to online gamble.

A 17 y/o local driver destroyed his ’09 Audi A4 by rear-ending a stopped Nissan X-Terra on Route 209 near Pleasant Valley HS at speed at 7:25 a.m. on 12-7. He was ticketed for the crash, and driving on balding tires. On a similar note, a 49 y/o Kunkletown driver rear-ended the car of an 18 y/o student on Route 209 near PVHS at 7:14 a.m. on 12-2.

An Albrightsville 31 y/o put her GMC Envoy into a utility pole when driving on snowy Route 534 on 12-11. She was not hurt. Her SUV