WLMI LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

7/3/08

THEFT IN ELK COUNTY – SAINT MARYS CITY POLICE REPORT THAT SOMEBODY TOOK SOME LAWN ORNAMENTS FROM GLEN HAZEL ROAD AND TAFT ROAD LATE TUESDAY NIGHT – THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES. 

POSSIBLE MAIL SCAM IN ELK COUNTY – SAINT MARYS CITY POLICE SAY A CITY RESIDENT RECEIVED A CHECK FOR 39 HUNDRED DOLLARS IN THE MAIL THIS WEEK TELLING HER SHE’D WON MONEY IN A SWEEPSTAKES.  HOWEVER AFTER INVESTIGATION OF THE ALLEGED CHECK, THE ITEM SENT UP RED FLAGS TO POLICE AND THEY’RE ADVISING YOU TO BE ALERT OF THIS POSSIBLE SCAM.

MORE INFORMATION FROM KANE BORO POLICE TODAY ON THE STABBING FROM LAST WEEKEND.  THE EARLY SATURDAY INCIDENT ON DAWSON STREET IN KANE INJURED 3 KANE RESIDENTS --- 26-YEAR OLD DANIEL AUSTIN AND 23-YEAR OLDS KEVIN KOPKOWSKI AND MICHAEL JAMERSON. AUSTIN AND KOPKOWSKI ENDED UP AT HAMOT MEDICAL CENTER IN ERIE FOR TREATMENT – JAMERSON WAS TAKEN TO WARREN GENERAL HOSPITAL AFTER ALL 3 PATIENTS WERE INITIALLY AT KANE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL.   POLICE ARE STILL INVESTIGATING THE ACTUAL ALTERCATION ITESELF TO DETERMINE WHO DID WHAT TO WHOM. 

NO INJURIES IN AN OIL TANK FIRE IN MCKEAN COUNTY – OFFICIALS WITH THE SMETHPORT FIRE DEPARTMENT TELL WLMI NEWS THAT THE FIRE IN THE VILLAGE OF ORMSBY ON ROUTE 59 IN KEATING TOWNSHIP BROKE OUT ABOUT 7PM – THEY WERE ABLE TO PUT IT OUT QUICKLY.

STATE POLICE ARE WARNING MOTORISTS TO BE CAREFUL THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND.  EACH YEAR THE 4^TH OF JULY WEEKEND HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST FATALITY RATES OF THE YEAR.  POLICE WILL BE PATROLING FOR EXCESSIVE SPEED AND DRUNK DRIVING VIOLATIONS IN PARTICULAR.

THEFT IN ELK COUNTY – ACCORDING TO JOHNSONBURG POLICE, THEY ARRESTED NICHOLAS GNAN OF JOHNSONBURG AFTER HE WAS IDENTIFIED BY WITNESSES AS THE SUSPECT THAT TOOK A COUPLE OF FIREARMS FROM A MILL STREET RESIDENCE TUESDAY EVENING.  POLICE SAY IT ALL HAPPENED SHORTLY AFTER 9PM THAT NIGHT. GNAN IS CURRENTLY BEHIND BARS IN THE ELK COUNTY PRISON.

STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAN SURRA HAS A NEW AWARD FOR HIS MANTLE.  SURRA WAS GIVEN THE “LEGION OF HONOR OF THE FOUR CHAPLAINS” AWARD FOR HIS SUPPORT OF PENNSYLVANIA VETERANS AND THEIR ISSUES.  SURRA HAS SOME PRETTY BIG COMPANY WITH THIS AWARD – THE FIRST RECIPIENT OF THE AWARD WAS FORMER PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN, FOLLOWED BY PRESIDENTS EISENHOWER AND CARTER.