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Do you get to vote for a Lehigh Valley district judge? A guide to who’s running where.
Updated 10:05 AM;
Voters across the Lehigh Valley are choosing a number of judicial seats in the May 18 primary, including magisterial district judges.
District judges handle preliminary arraignments and preliminary hearings in criminal cases to determine if the cases will move on to county court, as well as landlord-tenant disputes, traffic offenses and civil actions where the amount claimed does not exceed $12,000.
District judges serve six-year terms, and are paid an annual salary of $93,338. Some incumbents are running unopposed this year, and incumbents are identified on this list by an “I” after their name.
Wilson Borough police seek man accused of selling meth, court papers say
Updated May 10, 2021;
Wilson Borough police are looking for a 56-year-old borough resident who is charged with selling methamphetamine, court papers say.
Borough police worked with the Northampton County Drug Task Force in an investigation that led to an arrest warrant being sworn out on Wednesday against Robert G. Counterman Jr., of the 2400 block of Freemansburg Avenue.
Over the course of the probe, controlled buys of meth were made at least three times from Counterman in April, police said.
A search warrant was executed April 15 at 2410 Freemansburg Ave. and a gram of meth was recovered, as were glass pipes, hypodermic needles, packaging materials and evidence that Counterman lived there, police said in court papers.
One-punch homicide lands Wilson Borough man in prison for up to 6 years
Updated May 10, 2021;
Posted May 10, 2021
Calvin Brown Jr. surrendered July 1, 2019, to face a homicide charge out of Wilson Borough.Courtesy photo | For lehighvalleylive.com
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A Wilson Borough man who punched his friend and inadvertently killed him was sentenced Monday to three to six years in prison, according to a news release.
Calvin Brown, 27, killed Dennis Hodge Jr., 28, during a dispute June 26, 2019, in the 900 block of South 25th Street in Wilson Borough, according to the news release from the Northampton County District Attorney’s office. The men lived in apartments in that block.