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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, PSPFern Ridge and the Special Emergency Response Team at a home in Indian Mountain Lakes. 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., Pocono Mountain Regional Police was called to a home on fire on Wilson Court, Coolbaugh Twp. Responding firefighters from the Coolbaugh Volunteer Fire Company sent a team inside, 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 area is investigating the fire. An autopsy is being performed.

1-17 just before 10 a.m., PMRP 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

Seth Isenberg

and made these threats, and then left. Police were able to identify the man as a 31 y/o from Stillwater Lakes, Pocono Summit. 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 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.

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.

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.

Keeping the Rubber Side down

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 rearended 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 was towed.

A 22 y/o Albrightsville woman driving Route 534 on 1-11 on a foggy morning, driving on slushy roads, lost control of her Ford Fusion and drove through a utility pole before coming to a stop. She was taken to St. Luke’sCarbon by Lehighton EMS having been injured when the airbag went off.

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. An oncoming Toyota then hit the deer that was in the road.

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