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Tamaqua police log

Tamaqua police reported on the following incidents:

• Police said a 15-year-old Tamaqua girl faces charges after she fought with two women on Lafayette Street around 1 p.m. July 2.

Police were dispatched to the fight and found the girl screaming at her mother and another woman. The mother said the teen attacked the two of them.

As police were interviewing the mother, the girl threw a frying pan at her.

Police took the girl into custody and contacted her juvenile probation officer. She was turned over to juvenile probation and faces charges of simple assault and harassment, police said.

• Police cited three borough teenagers who threw water balloons at vehicles just after midnight on July 3.

According to police, a driver called police to report that their vehicle was hit with a water balloon while on West Broad Street near the Tamaqua Area School District administration building.

Police said a 13-year-old boy, 17-year-old boy and a-16 year-old boy will be cited for breaking curfew and disorderly conduct.

• Police said they charged Stephanie Mullaney, 32, with harassment after she attacked a man during a verbal argument on the unit block of East Elm Street at 8:42 p.m. July 2.

• David Shiffert, 36, of Coaldale, was charged with public drunkenness and disorderly conduct by police following a 6:30 p.m. June 28 incident.

Police said they received a report that an intoxicated man had fallen and struck his head in the unit block of Center Street. Police spotted Shiffert hanging onto a pole and swaying back and forth. Police said Shiffert had vomit on his shirt and appeared intoxicated but refused medical attention. He was taken to the police station to sober up when officers said he became combative.

He was later released into the custody of a friend.

• A Tamaqua woman who was previously told not to visit the Family Dollar had to be dragged from its aisles by police on June 28.

According to police, Angela Hysong, 40, visited the store just before 8 p.m. even though she had been forbidden from the store because of a previous incident.

A store employee told police that he asked Hysong to leave but she refused. As police spoke to the employee, Hysong continuously interrupted and yelled, saying that she wanted to tell her side of the story.

Police said Hysong then tried to elude officers. She was placed under arrest for trespassing but resisted being handcuffed. Once in cuffs, she pulled her hand out and continued to fight officers, police said.

Police eventually dragged her out of the store as she continued to resist arrest, police said.

When police took her into custody, they found two smoking devices containing suspected marijuana. Police charged Hysong with defiant trespass, resisting arrest and possession of drug paraphernalia.

• A Tamaqua man is free on bail following a 10:29 a.m. June 30 domestic incident, police said.

Officers went to the area of Market Street and Reilly Avenue for an open 9-1-1 line, where a woman could be heard yelling, “Let go of my hair.” Police spoke to Jean Mendoza Collozo, who said he had only a verbal fight with the woman.

In the meantime, the woman arrived at the Tamaqua police station and told officers that Mendoza Collozo tried to take her phone from her. She said a fight ensued, and Mendoza Collozo grabbed her by her hair. The two fell down a flight of steps, and Mendoza Collozo smashed her hands with the cellphone.

Police said the woman’s knuckles, knees and shins were bleeding. She went to St. Luke’s Urgent Care for medical attention.

Mendoza Collozo was taken into custody; he claimed the woman had thrown him down the steps and had hit her own hands with the phone, police said.

He was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Stephen Bayer on charges of simple assault and harassment. Mendoza Collozo is free after posting $5,000 percentage bail.

• Police took a Brooklyn, New York, woman into custody after learning that she was wanted on a warrant.

Carmen DeAza was stopped by police at 8:48 a.m. July 11 after officers noticed the vehicle she was driving did not have a license plate. DeAza showed police that a black screen device was used to cover the license plate.

As officers ran her information, they learned she was wanted. She was taken into custody.

Police said the screen device can be used to hide a license plate from turnpike tolls or red light cameras.

• Leonel Cabrera, Lansford, was charged with disorderly conduct and public drunkenness after Tamaqua police said he was using a stick to hold himself up while walking in the east end of the borough at 5:30 p.m. July 12.

Police said they asked Cabrera if he had any alcohol that day, and he asked, “What does that matter?” Officers said he became confrontational and attempted to walk away.

Officers said they advised Cabrera that he was under arrest but when they attempted to grab his left arm, he pulled away. Police said they eventually took Cabrera into custody and released him into the care of his children.