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Tamaqua police log

Tamaqua Police released details on the following incidents:

• Police cited a Palmerton man for public drunkenness after he failed to leave a borough establishment on May 21. According to police, officers were dispatched to The Wabash, 50 Mauch Chunk St., at 6:15 p.m. for an unwanted person who was sitting on a chair outside the establishment. Police spoke to an employee who said the man had been sitting at the bar, did not have anything to drink and kept nodding off. The employee asked the man, Richard Sliwinski, 49, to leave but he did not, police said.

Officers found Sliwinski sitting at a table outside the establishment. He was slurring his speech and wasn’t making sense, police said.

He said he was waiting for a ride and that he had taken two oxycodone pills in the morning. Police said he could barely stand and continued to nod off.

He was arrested and taken to the station to sober up, police said.

• A homeless woman who lives in Tamaqua was cited by borough police for defiant trespass and retail theft.

According to police, the woman, Candy Jo Zuber, 45, was at Turkey Hill loitering and asking for money from people using the ATM at 4:44 p.m. May 15. A manager asked her to leave, but she only did so when told police were coming.

Police spotted Zuber walking toward the store at 8 a.m. May 17 and told her she would be arrested for trespassing if she went there. She said she was not going there. However, at 3:54 p.m. May 17, Zuber returned to the store, police said. A manager told her she was not allowed inside but she poured a medium drink, walked to the register and paid 20 cents. She then left the store even though she owed $1.05.