Police Briefs 3/9/2010
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Man charged
State police at Towanda said Kenneth Ball, 28, of Columbia Crossroads, is accused of shoving a 25-year-old female against a wall and throwing her onto a mattress on the floor at 11 p.m. March 7 at Kerryview Trailer Park, Columbia Township.
Police said he was charged with two charges of simple assault and two charges of harassment.
Hit and run reported
State police at Towanda said a hit and run accident occurred at 9:15 p.m. March 5 on Route 14 in South Creek Township.
According to police, a vehicle was traveling north and a 2002 Taurus, owned by Denise K. Sandor, 34, of Canton, was parked on the shoulder, and the vehicle sideswiped its driver's side and broke off the mirror. The driver of the vehicle then fled.
Man charged with terroristic threats
State police at Towanda said Zechariah Keener, 21, of Towanda, was charged with terroristic threats for an incident at various times in August 2009 in Springfield Township.
Police said he sent threatening e-mails to a 22-year-old Columbia Crossroads female with the intent to terrorize her.
Accident reported
State police at Towanda said a two-vehicle accident occurred at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 25 in Columbia Township.
Police said one vehicle was traveling west and one was being driven east. The operator of the first vehicle lost control of the vehicle, which struck the other vehicle, causing it to travel down an embankment and strike a chicken fence.
Crash reported
State police at Towanda said a parked vehicle was struck in an accident at 2:18 p.m. Feb. 12 in Granville Township.
According to police, a vehicle, driven by Matthew Kennedy, 31, of Wellsboro, entered a parking lot, and a Malibu was parked with no occupants. Kennedy's driver's side of the trailer he was towing struck the passenger side rear bumper of the Malibu. Police said there was minor damage to Kennedy's rear bumper and taillight and paint transfer on his trailer.
Hit-and-run driver damages Towanda street light
A hit-and-run driver caused substantial damage to a street light in Towanda over the weekend, Towanda police said.
The accident occurred at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, when a white, full-size pickup truck that was towing a long flat-bed trailer was traveling east on Elizabeth Street, police said.
As the truck turned south onto Main Street, the trailer portion of the vehicle struck a lamppost, Towanda Police Chief Mitch Osman said.
The truck broke the light off the lamppost and bent the post, Osman said. The driver did not report the accident, the police chief said.
"It appeared that (the driver) stopped momentarily, backed up, and then continued on," the police chief said.
The vehicle had been seen earlier on Sunday towing the trailer west on Elizabeth Street, police said.
Penelec has since replaced the light, Osman said. He said he did not know if Penelec had to replace the post itself.
The police chief said he did not believe the bed of the truck itself had sides.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Towanda Borough Police at (570) 265-2522.
Woman cited for scattering rubbish in Fox Twp.
Marlena Canduci-Clauss, 40, of Riverside, N.J., was recently cited for scattering rubbish in Fox Township, police said.
At approximately 8 a.m. on Feb. 28, rubbish that Canduci-Clauss had scattered was found on a property off of Dry Run Road, state police at Laporte said.
The land where the incident occurred is owned by 57-year-old Kenneth Cartwright of Shunk, police said.
Towanda man injured in crash
Carl G. Bordenet of Sayre, who was driving a Chevrolet W4500, recently pulled from a stop sign into the path of a Dodge Ram, which caused the vehicles to collide, police said.
The accident occurred at 8:36 a.m. on Feb. 15 on U.S. Route 6, at its intersection with the Route 220 southbound ramp, police said.
Bordenet, 46, was cited for a stop sign violation, police said.
Donald W. McNeal Jr., 35, of Towanda, who was driving the Dodge Ram, suffered a minor injury, police said.
Bordenet and two children in McNeal's vehicle were uninjured, state police at Towanda said.
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