Police Beat

It’s wildfire season around the Pocono Plateau. Please be fire safe, with no open burning until the dry spell passes.

4-14, 9:55 a.m., PA State Police – Fern Ridge was 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.

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

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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 the Hunter Dr. Gordan was pronounced dead on scene by the Monroe County Coroner’s Office. Richards 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 and made a stop. The trucker was detained, and his vehicle towed. The trucker was processed at PSP-F HQ and later released.

4-14, just before 6 p.m., a tree branch fell on a Toyota RAV4 being driven south on Route 715, crashing through the windshield and disabling the car. The driver was lucky to be unhurt.

The Pocono Plateau is not HIGH Enough for some

There were another small armful of DUI reports – mostly driving while drugged. Here’s one: PSP made a traffic stop on Gilbert Road at 2:11 a.m. on 4-14 and found the 29 y/o man driving to be under the influence of narcotics. He also had a prohibited weapon in the car. Charges of DUI and about the weapon will be filed.

Stealin’

4-15, a man broke through the wall of the Big Brown Fish & Pay Lake’s office off Route 115 in Effort at about 1:51 a.m. and stole the cash register from the front desk. He then went out the back door and broke into the cash register, before walking away. The man wore a white face mask and a white hoodie. PSP seeks leads – call them at 570 646-2271 if you can help.

4-14, PSP is investigating a burglary of a Nosirrah Rd., Albrightsville home, discovered just before 9:30 p.m. Burglars opened a front living room window to enter. They took a safe and two laptop computers.

4-13, a porch pirate took a box from a Singer Ave., Jackson Twp. home just before noon. A pair of NIKE Air Max 90 grape sneakers were stolen.

See POLICE BEAT, page 9

Hoedown helps Friends of CCTI

A Cinco de Mayo Hoedown will benefit the Friends of CCTI Fund on May 5. Gunslinger Country Band will headline at the Franklin township Volunteer Fire Company in Lehighton.

Cost is $10 at the door. Line dancing lessons start at 6 p.m. The band plays from 7-10.

There will also be a basket auction, raffles, food and drinks for purchase.

Find flowers at CCEEC Spring Hike

Naturalist Jeannie Carl of the Carbon County Environmental Education Center leads participants on an easy walk in search of early spring flowers, and other signs of seasonal change on the trails around the center, on Saturday, April 29, starting at 10 a.m.

Waterproof footwear is recommended.

The hike is free for EEC members and non-members alike. Families are welcome.

For more information or to register, call 570-645-8597.

Birding the Bog Programs planned

Join Kettle Creek EE Center on May 3, 10 or 17 for a morning of birding in the Tannersville Bog. Combine one of the most unique natural settings with one of the most spectacular natural phenomena and you get a morning of migration birding at the Bog.

Police Beat

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4-10, a Jackson Twp. 33 y/o called PSP to report a burglary. Further investigation learned the report was false, and charges of lying to law enforcement are filed.

4-9, a Penn Forest Trail woman let her ex-boyfriend stay the night at her home, and he took some of her medication, and a hoody. She got the hoody back.

There are a variety of identity thefts and fraud attempts in the reports.

PennDOT

Every two years the State Transportation Commission (STC) and PennDOT update Pennsylvania’s 12 year program. Public feedback is a critical part of that process.

Cost is $6 per person. Registration is required by calling 570-629-3061.

Directions: Route 611, at the light at the Tannersville Inn turn onto Cherry Lane Road. The bog parking lot is 1.9 miles from 611 on the right. For more information, call (570) 629-3061. For information visit www.mcconservation.org.

The public comment period for PennDOT’s 12-Year Program update continues through April 30. For more information, go to www. TalkPATransportation.com

Find PennDOT’s planned and active construction projects at www. projects.penndot.gov.

Use www.511PA.com to check conditions on 40,000+ miles of PA roads for free. It provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to 1000+ traffic cameras. It’s also a smartphone application, or by calling 5-1-1.

Locally, crews are out pothole patching, crack sealing, road sweeping, doing drainage work and tree trimming.

A bridge inspection team is in the area on Interstate 80, and then some local roads this month.