The head of the Franklin Township Police Department has been recognized for his role in a case that led to the arrest in a stabbing case.

It was announced at Tuesday’s board of supervisors meeting that a letter was sent to the township Jan. 25 from Jim Thorpe Police Chief Joe Schatz.

Schatz’s letter was about an incident on Jan. 24 in which the Jim Thorpe Police Department was dispatched to a stabbing victim from Jim Thorpe going to St. Luke’s Carbon Campus.

“Right from the start, Chief (Jason) Doll went above and beyond to provide his services at the hospital until we were able to get to the hospital and begin our investigation,” Schatz wrote. “Chief Doll did an outstanding job which helped us lead to the arrest of the person responsible for the stabbing.

“Chief Doll is an asset to his department and the law enforcement community that he serves.”

The incident involved a Bethlehem woman who was on federal probation and faces multiple charges in Carbon County after she solicited others to help her stab herself, according to a criminal complaint filed earlier this month at Magisterial District Judge Eric Schrantz’s office.

According to Jim Thorpe Det. Lee Marzen, witnesses told him Amber Paige Moeck, 27, feared failing a drug test and going back to jail.

Moeck, who also has a Jim Thorpe apartment address listed, is charged with two felonies including criminal solicitation of aggravated assault and criminal use of a communication facility, and five misdemeanors including false reports, obstruction of law, false alarm to an agency of public safety, unsworn falsification to authorities and criminal solicitation of simple assault.

A Lehighton woman told Jim Thorpe Police that Moeck was at her home on Jan. 23 and had been using illegal narcotics, particularly methamphetamine.

The next morning, the witness told police, she went to William Shook’s house in Jim Thorpe, where Moeck was sitting at the end of a kitchen countertop with a knife in her hand and said she was “going to have to do it.”

The witness said she quickly left the residence.

Shook told police he was with Moeck and several others at a lake in the Stroudsburg area several days before the stabbing. Moeck told them she was due to meet with her federal probation officer on Jan. 24.

Shook said Moeck asked everyone at the lake if they would be willing to help her by stabbing her.

When Jim Thorpe police responded to the St. Luke’s Carbon Campus on Jan. 24, police spoke with Shook, who had come to the hospital with her. Shook said Moeck “came knocking on his door around 8 a.m. and stated she was stabbed,” according to the affidavit filed by Marzen. While Moeck drove to the hospital, Shook said he put pressure on her wounds.

Moeck initially told 911 dispatchers and Franklin Township police that she was stabbed by a black man who ran off and got away in what looked to her like “a blue freaking sportster Honda.” She also told police the man had been following her for two weeks.

Moeck then told Jim Thorpe police that wasn’t true and that it was Shook who stabbed her a total of four times.

Moeck told police that Shook didn’t stop after hitting the thigh.

After the stabbing, Moeck told police, she ran to her vehicle and Shook followed, jumping in before she left for the hospital.

Police interviewed Shook, who said he “reluctantly” stabbed her.

Moeck is scheduled for a preliminary hearing at 3:30 p.m. She is incarcerated in Lackawanna County Prison on federal charges.

Shook faces charges on three counts of simple assault; two counts of aggravated assault; and one count of possessing instrument of crime with intent.

He is incarcerated in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $10,000 cash bail, and his preliminary hearing has been continued until March 8.