State police at Frackville report on incidents
State police at the Frackville barracks report on the following incidents:
• Police are investigating the theft of a cellphone taken from an open car while the victim used an automated teller machine at a bank in Shenandoah.
The victim told police he parked his unlocked vehicle in the side parking lot of the BBMT Bank, 5 N. Main St., at 12:05 p.m. Nov. 15. When he returned to the vehicle, he found the door hanging open and an unknown Hispanic man walking away from the car. He told police he attempted to speak to the man, but the suspect replied in a foreign language, ignored Roman and walked away.
Police said Roman discovered his Samsung S9+ worth $250 was taken from the front seat of the vehicle.
• Caitlyn Boyer, 27, of Ashland, and James Whitman, 30, of Tower City, were issued citations for harassment and disorderly conduct after state police at the Frackville barracks were summoned to a disturbance at 10:45 a.m. Nov. 14 at 1333 Walnut St., Ashland.
Police said Boyer told them she was walking to her car when Whitman approached her, got in her face, chest-bumped her and threatened to throw her to the ground.
Police said Whitman told them he and two friends were talking to a person on the other side of the street when Boyer started yelling at them. He said an argument ensued between them and he ran over to get between them, at which time he alleged Boyer pushed him in the chest.
• Police are investigating a criminal mischief incident in which someone vandalized a minivan owned by a Schuylkill Haven man.
Police said a resident of Valley Street in New Philadelphia reported someone scratched the driver’s side of his 2007 Chevrolet Uplander during an unknown period of time.
• Police cited Victoria Jago, 39, of Ashland, with disorderly conduct after an incident at 2:59 a.m. Oct. 30 in the 200 block of West Centre Street in that borough.
Police said she climbed onto a roof at the residence, refused to come down and was yelling profanities at people who requested her to climb off the roof.
Police said Ashland fire and rescue personnel used a ladder truck to get the woman off the roof. Police said she refused medical treatment, was cited and then released.
• Police are investigating a theft by deception case involving a credit/debit card that was lost by a 75-year-old Hazleton woman.
They were summoned at 1 p.m. Nov. 15 to Plaza Drive, Rush Township, where the woman reported she misplaced her credit card and later discovered that it was being used fraudulently.