Police Beat by Seth

The Pocono Mountain Regional Police, with Mount Pocono Borough and the Fork Street Bistro, will join together for Coffee with a Cop on May 5 from 8 to 10 a.m. Please come out for a coffee, a bite to eat and some great interactions with your men and women in blue. The meal hopes to break through barriers and establish relationships between law enforcement officers the our Pocono Plateau communities they serve.

It’s still wildfire season. Please be fire safe, with no open burning until the dry spell passes and local agencies indicate it is fire safe once more.

4-23, PMRP, assisted by US Marshals, arrested Maz Liebetrau, a fugitive from an arrest warrant out of Luzerne County for an incident involving Wilkes University. Liebetrau was located at a home on Split Rock Lane in Lake Naomi, Pocono Pines, and taken into custody without incident and placed in the Monroe County jail, to be taken back to Luzerne County at a later time.

4-21, 10:30 a.m., PA State

Police – Fern Ridge was sent to a Beaver Dr., Indian Mountain Lakes home when a couple’s argument became a mutual fight. The pair, 54 and 64, were separated and each ticketed for harassment, filed at the district justice’s office.

4-14, 9:55 a.m., PSP-F troopers were dispatched to the Towamensing Trails administration office due to an altercation becoming a physical fight. Police cited everyone involved for harassment, and they’ll all be charged via District Court.

4-17, a mother and daughter got into an argument at the home on Wahoo Court in Albrightsville. During the argument, the daughter threw a plastic pill bottle at her mom, hitting her in the head. Police will charge the daughter with harassment.

Troop N’s Fire Marshal unit is investigating a structure fire at 1616 Roberts Road in Chestnuthill Twp. that happened at 3:43 a.m. on 4-11.

PSP is working on an incident where a 13 y/o Albrightsville girl was receiving texts from a man in Texas, believed to be 18 years old, 4-1.

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PSP was sent to a Towamensing Trails home to investigate a suicide, 3-23. PSP also investigated a natural death on 4-2 near Saylorsburg.

PSP-F is investigating a threat to Pleasant Valley High School that was posted on the Discord app on 4-16. PSP listed a couple of incidents of harassment via text. There are also a couple of reports being investigated of endangering the welfare of a child. PSP-F received a report of a sexual assault of a 13 y/o Blakeslee-area girl on 4-17, other children may also have been abused.

Keeping the Rubber Side Down

4-14, 11:49 p.m. Pocono Mountain Regional Police responded to a single vehicle crash with entrapment on Echo Lake Road in Coolbaugh Township. PMR EMS, Coolbaugh Township Vol. Fire Company, Tobyhanna Army Depot Fire Company, and Pocono Mountain VFC responded. Two men were trapped inside. The driver, Isaiah Gordan, 19, of Daytona Beach, FL, and the passenger, Dwane Richards, 18, of Tobyhanna. Gordan was driving a newer Mercedes c250 that left the road and struck a tree near Hunter Drive. Gordan was pronounced dead on scene by the Monroe County Coroner’s Office. Richards was flown to Geisinger Wyoming Valley by helicopter with serious injuries. PMRPD continues an investigation into this crash.

4-18 at 1:20 p.m., two trucks clipped mirrors on Interstate 80. During the start of the exchange of information, PSP arrived. One of the truckers refused to provide key information, then got into his truck and left. PSP located the truck a little ways down the road

See POLICE BEAT, page 11

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