A Rice Twp. couple was arrested Thursday on charges alleging they starved a 6-year-old boy so severely that he weighed only 20 pounds when he appeared at Greater Nanticoke Area Elementary Center one day last year.
Zachary Michael Vincent, 30, and his wife, Natalie M. Shaffer, 26, both of 155 Pine View Dr., were jailed without bail on felony assault charges following an arraignment by Magisterial District Judge Donald L. Whittaker.
According to the complaints filed by Luzerne County detectives, police began investigating the case in January 2020 after the starving child â who is Shafferâs son and Vincentâs stepson â showed up at the Nanticoke school.
Kingston police charged a Shamokin man in connection with an online child sex sting on Thursday.
Gary A. Kerstetter, 52, engaged in a graphic conversation on the internet with a person he thought was a 15-year-old girl, police said in a criminal complaint.
The âgirlâ was actually a Kingston police detective.
Following an online conversation that started on Jan. 21 and included explicit references to sex acts he wanted to perform, Kerstetter attempted to meet the âgirlâ for a sexual encounter, police allege.
On Thursday morning, Kerstetter agreed to go to Kingston police headquarters and speak with investigators, according to the criminal complaint. He admitted he tried to arrange to meet someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl for sex, the complaint states.
A man from Shamokin was arrested Thursday after multiple explicit conversations with a minor. Author: WNEP Web Staff Updated: 11:09 PM EST January 28, 2021
KINGSTON, Pa. Police in Kingston have nabbed another man on child sex charges.
Officers pretending to be a 15-year-old girl say they began getting messages from Gary Kerstetter, 52, of Shamokin on social media on January 21.
By Ed Lewis elewis@timesleader.com
Detectives say this unknown man discharged several rounds at two Pittston police officers on Butler Street early Friday morning.
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PITTSTON Luzerne County detectives and city police were busy Friday investigating a police-related shooting in the area of Butler and Defoe streets.
District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis said two city officers stopped on Butler Street where two men approached their cruiser at about 1:15 a.m.
When the officers shined a flashlight toward the two men, one of them discharged several rounds from a firearm.
Officers returned fire as the two men fled on foot on Butler Street, Salavantis said.