State police at Fern Ridge
State police at the Fern Ridge barracks reported the following incidents:
• Tiffany Hill, 38, of Albrightsville, is facing drug possession charges after police made a traffic stop at 11:53 a.m. on Oct. 19.
She was stopped in a 2018 Jeep Cherokee for a traffic violation on Route 115, Tobyhanna Township, after which she was found to be in possession of a small amount of marijuana, police said.
• A 47-year-old man from Tonawanda, New York, is facing terroristic threat charges after police were called to a property on Parkside Avenue, Tobyhanna Township, at 3:46 p.m. on Oct. 24.
Police said the victim of the incident told them the man had issues with her having a fire and making noise at the site and told her, “There are 30 acres behind here; no one will find your body.”
She said the man returned to a residence where he was staying and fired a single gunshot in the area where the victim and another person were speaking with each other.
• Brandon Soto, 28, of East Orange, New Jersey, was taken into custody on a warrant issued for his arrest after police made a traffic stop at 3:29 p.m. on Oct. 25 on Interstate 80 in Tobyhanna Township. Police said he is wanted for a drug-induced death in New Jersey.
Soto was lodged in the Monroe County Correctional Facility, Snydersville, where he is awaiting extradition to the neighboring state.
• Police said a 59-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman from Maple Shade, New Jersey, reported a theft on Sept 6.
The couple reported that they had entered into a contract with 4-U Custom Homes LLC on June 5 to build an addition to their home on Chapman Circle, Penn Forest Township, and wrote a check to the company in the amount of $35,256.86. They told police the check was cashed on June 8, and no work was ever done on the project.
• A 13-year-old Effort girl is the victim of a sex abuse/child photo or video incident that police were called to at 7:59 p.m. on Sept. 6 on Shenkel Road, Chestnuthill Township.
She told police on July 3 that she was coerced by someone on social media/Snapchat to take nude photos and complied, sending the photos. She said she was told to send additional nude photos in August, and provided the contact information for her parents, and they then began receiving threatening messages from the suspect.