Two people cited after Tamaqua incident
Two people were cited after an incident in Tamaqua on March 19.
Police were called to 121 E. Broad St. at 8:21 p.m. after a man and woman entered the building, saying they were being chased and threatened by Richard E. Michlovsky, 52, of 261 W. Rowe St., Tamaqua.The woman, Kelsey Anderson, 20, of 14 W. Broad St., told officers she had left her apartment minutes earlier and saw Michlovsky sitting in a vehicle in the parking lot of the Wells Fargo Bank. He exited the vehicle and began to follow her, allegedly threatening to beat her and kill her.She and her male friend began running and ducked in to the pizza shop for safety. A delivery driver saw the chase, stating several men were running after the couple in the area of the Five Points Intersection. The witness also heard the threats made by Michlovsky.Once the couple entered the pizza parlor the men turned and walked west on Broad Street.Anderson appeared to be intoxicated and admitted "doing methamphetamine and heroin" earlier that day. She was given, and failed, field sobriety tests, then was transported to Schuylkill Medical Center-S. Jackson Street in Pottsville, for evaluation.At 10 p.m. officers made contact with Michlovsky. Initially he said he saw Anderson and her boyfriend leave their apartment while he was in a vehicle in the bank lot. He claimed he left the area when they began yelling at the boyfriend. He then changed his tale to seeing the couple exit their apartment and he confronted the woman about a stolen iPad. That's when they began yelling at them, chasing the boyfriend with a knife, according to Michlovsky.Fifteen minutes later Anderson's friend and her grandmother arrived at the station with a threatening note they found on Anderson's apartment door.Michlovsky was cited for making terroristic threats, harassment, and stalking. Anderson was cited for harassment.