An intoxicated Duryea man pulled a knife on his own mother and punched her in the head because she called the police on him during a domestic dispute, police said.
Alan J. Celusniak, 38, was arrested after the dispute at the family home in the 100 block of Hillcrest Drive on Monday evening.
Police said Celusniak was intoxicated and his elderly mother first called to report having trouble with him around 5:40 p.m.
After officers cleared the scene, Celusniak pulled out a pocket knife and held it up to his mother, threatening to kill her if she ever called the police on him again, police said.
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Authorities say they seized marijuana-laced Fruity Pebbles bars, gummy bears and brownies during a drug raid Monday morning at a house on Robert Street in the Sheatown section of Newport
Nanticoke man charged with threatening child victim
Updated Feb 20, 2021;
A Nanticoke man was arraigned Saturday on charges alleging he threatened the juvenile victim in an active child abuse investigation against him, according to charges.
Nicholas Jack McEwen, 37, of 60 W. Green St., is facing a felony charge of obstructing a child abuse investigation.
According to the charges, Luzerne County Children and Youth Services contacted police reporting that there is an open child abuse investigation identifying McEwen as the alleged perpetrator.
The victim told authorities that during an encounter on the street while walking to a friend’s house in January, McEwen leveled a threat.
A former Kingston man charged with killing a man in Wilkes-Barre last year was returned to Luzerne County on Thursday after spending nearly a year in a New York jail.
Jeremy J. Gittens, 37, had been incarcerated in New York City since U.S. Marshals arrested him there on March 13, 2020.
Prosecutors allege that Gittens shot and killed Ryan McGovern, of Plains Twp., as they rode in a car on Schuler Street in Wilkes-Barre on March 4, 2020. Susan Sarin, of Wilkes-Barre, was shot and wounded in the incident, police reported at the time.
The shooting stemmed from a dispute over a drug deal, investigators said.