Friday, March 8, 2013
State police say a traffic stop led troopers to a drug bust, and a wanted fugitive.
It started with a state trooper noticing an erratic driver near the Turkey Hill outside of Easton. But soon, that trooper had arrested a wanted Nazareth area man who was allegedly carrying 190 bags of heroin bearing the label "0 tolerance." Curtis Phillips Jr., 24, whose last known address was in Plainfield Township, is charged with drug possession, possession with intent to deliver heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia. According to a press release, State Trooper Michael Kalinchock stopped a gray 2003 Nissan Maxima around 8 p.m. Wednesday for several traffic violations. Court records say Kalinchock spotted Phillips stop at a stop sign at Morgan Hill Road near Line Street, and then rapidly accelerate. Police say Phillips' Nissan …
Monday, December 17, 2012
A Brooklyn man who police say had cocaine, meth and ecstasy in his car was passed out in the middle of a busy highway.
Robert Chris Carbonell found in his car parked on the middle of I-78, police say.
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Monday, December 17, 2012
State police Trooper Scott Labar confronted a potentially deadly situation Friday night. A white Infiniti with New York license plates was stopped on Interstate 78 around 8:45 not far from the Easton exit, straddling the broken white lines of the eastbound lanes. In the driver’s seat of the 2008 M35 sedan was a Brooklyn, N.Y., man -- Robert Chris Carbonell, 37 -- who was conscious but unresponsive. There was a white powdery substance near his nostrils, court records say. Labar was able to move the car, whose engine was running, into the median. He then requested an ambulance. Incredibly, the records make no mention of any traffic mishaps. One of two troopers who came to assist Labar found a small ziplock baggie with white powder as well as…
Friday, November 9, 2012
Edye Huang hasn't been seen since November 6, police say.
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Update, 8:45 p.m: Police say Huang has been found, and is safe. State police at Belfast are looking for a woman who went missing earlier this week. Edye Huang, 45, of Bangor, was last seen on the evening of November 6. She was reported missing by her landlord and her employer after she didn't show up for work. Huang's boss expressed concern because she has a medical condition, and hadn't been taking her medication. Huang has black hair, brown eyes and glasses, 5'2'' and 120 lbs. Anyone with information is asked to contact the police at (610) 759-6106
Monday, September 10, 2012
Brian Simmons, 23, charged with sex crimes against 15-year-old girl in Glendon.
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Monday, September 10, 2012
A man with addresses in Bethlehem and Easton is accused of raping a teenage girl. State police at Belfast say Brian William Simmons, AKA "40," raped the 15-year-old girl in his car in the borough of Glendon on July 3. According to court records, Simmons, 23, who knew the girl, asked her to get into his car while she was walking along Canal Street on Easton's South Side. They drove into Glendon, with Simmons asking the girl if she wanted to make some money. He pulled over onto Belmont Street, where police say he forced the girl to have sex. The girl went home after the rape, court records say, and police were called. She was able to identify Simmons because they had prior contact. A warrant was issued for his arrest in July. Court …
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Man in Williams Township "suspicious death" case may have been killed with hammer.
A Williams Township man whose death has been deemed suspicious may have been killed by a hammer.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
A Williams Township man found suffering from fatal injuries in his home last week may have been killed by a hammer. That's according to a search warrant application filed by state police and released Tuesday by District Judge Daniel Corpora. The document lists new details in the case of 47-year-old Michael Muretta, who was pronounced dead last week at St. Luke's Hospital after being found by state troopers at his Morgan Hill Road home Aug. 29. Authorities have called the death suspicious, but the coroner has not ruled on Muretta's cause of death. According to the search warrant application, police were called last week by Muretta's ex-wife, Teresa, who became concerned because he had missed more than a week of work "which is highly unusual…
Friday, August 10, 2012
Curtis Jamar Brown caught with drugs at Williams Township gun range, police say.
State police went to a Williams Township gun store/shooting range Wednesday afternoon as part of an investigation into a wanted person attempting to buy a firearm. They made an arrest, but the charges ended up having to do with drugs. They say Curtis Jamar Brown, 32, of Bethlehem had 20 packets of crack cocaine in a plastic bag that was attached to his underwear with a safety pin. They also say Brown lied about his identity, and they discovered he was arrested by Plainfield,N.J., police for alleged felony drug and weapons violations, court records say. According to a criminal complaint filed by Trooper Robert Figurski of state police at Belfast: --Their investigation took them to the Heritage Guild, a gun store/shooting range on Hilton …
Friday, January 27, 2012
Two people were apparently stabbed to death in an apartment building on Route 611 early Friday morning, according to published reports. Suspect in custody.
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Friday, January 27, 2012
State police are looking for a man they suspect is behind a double homicide this morning in Ottsville, about 20 miles south of Easton. According to the Morning Call and WFMZ, the suspect is Lloyd Hill, 41, who may be headed to the Lehigh Valley. Hill "may be driving a blue or purple Ford Taurus sedan or similar style sedan" with the license plate EYF-5704, the Morning Call report indicated. The report indicates that the homicides occurred before 6am at an apartment building in the 8700 block of Easton Road (Route 611), and that the victims--a man and a woman--were apparently stabbed to death. That location is about 14 miles southeast of Hellertown. Hill may be armed with a knife and/or gun, and anyone who sees him or a vehicle matching the…
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Alana Lee Rehrig, 26, jailed on assault charges after allegedly stabbing two men in Glendon Saturday.
On Christmas Eve, a Glendon woman declared “I feel like killing you” to either her boyfriend or his father – she couldn’t remember which one – and then stabbed both of them with a 12-inch butcher knife, according to court records. The incident started when the suspect, Alana Lee Rehrig, 26, of 159 Main St., got into an argument with her boyfriend’s father, the records say. The father told police Rehrig, threatening to kill him, stabbed him in the left pectoral muscle of his chest. The son tried to break up the fight by picking her up and pushing her to the ground. She then grabbed a Pyrex serving bowl and threw it, striking the father in the head, the father told police. The son, meanwhile, told police that as he tried to restrain his …
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