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Police report Hazleton, Weatherly incidents

Hazleton police have reported crimes involving area residents.

Police said Robert J. Calucci, 58, Beaver Meadows, will be charged with disorderly conduct after an incident in the area of South Church and Buttonwood streets at 6:41 p.m. Monday.A McAdoo woman faces charges after a state agency said she obtained the same prescription narcotic from two different doctors.Brenda Gigli, 38, was charged with acquires or obtains possession of a controlled substance by misrepresentation and possession of a controlled substance by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.She was arraigned Jan. 15 by Magisterial District Judge Stephen Bayer, Tamaqua, who set bail at $25,000 unsecured.Arrest papers state the attorney general's office received information from a health insurance company that Gigli was getting multiple prescriptions for the same drug. Arrest papers state she received alprazolam prescriptions from two doctors and filled them at various pharmacies in Schuylkill County, receiving 1,080 tablets between Nov. 3, 2013, and March 6, 2014.The attorney general's office investigator went to Gigli's home Aug. 25 and she told the investigator she was seeing two doctors at the same time and receiving prescriptions from both without telling the doctors, court papers state.Incidentsin WeatherlyWeatherly police reported the following.• Wayne D. Gross, 50 Country Estates Lane, Berwick, was charged with theft, receiving stolen property and defiant trespass after he entered a closed area to an automotive garage Dec. 24. He's accused of taking about 25 vehicle radiators and bringing them to a scrap yard where he traded them for $381. Gross is in Luzerne County Correctional Facility, Wilkes-Barre, for charges from three other departments.• Janel C. Thomas, 1102 Bridge St., Lehighton, face charges of terroristic threats and harassment by communication after she sent her ex-husband threatening text messages Dec. 31, stating that she was outside of his home and was going to kill him.• Anthony Petrone, 305 First St., Weatherly, will be charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, theft and receiving stolen property after officers responded to his home for a heroin overdose Jan. 1. Officers found heroin, empty heroin packets and hypodermic needles at the residence, along with a stolen street sign from Foster Township.• Brendan K. Rowan, 203 Saint Francis Cabrini Ave., Scranton, was cited for driving with a suspended license, following too closely, driving with a suspended registration and not having required financial responsibility after a Jan. 17 traffic stop on East Main Street. He was stopped for following another vehicle too closely and was found driving with a suspended registration for not having insurance.Distributed by Tribune Content Agency LLC