Edward Lewis

WILKES-BARRE — A Hanover Township woman while employed as a home health aide was ordered to pay $2,500 in restitution for unauthorized use of a bank card belonging to a care-dependent person.

WILKES-BARRE — A mother who Wilkes-Barre police say overdosed after taking an illicit drug while caring for her 8-year-old son at a hotel was sentenced to special probation Thursday.

WILKES-BARRE — A Plymouth man who contested online child solicitation charges based on information from a non-law enforcement officer was sentenced to up to three years in state prison Thursday.

SCRANTON — A federal jury in Scranton this week convicted a Wilkes-Barre man of trafficking illicit drugs.

WILKES-BARRE — Dash camera footage from a Luzerne County Transportation Authority’s bus showed Branden Delcastillo following Lonnie Davis on East Northampton Street at about 3:35 p.m. on Sept. 9.

WILKES-BARRE — A woman who admitted to kicking and vomiting on two Pennsylvania State Police troopers after being arrested for a drunken driving crash was recently sentenced in Luzerne County Court.

WILKES-BARRE — A man who initiated a pursuit with Pennsylvania State Police troopers that ended in a crash in Wilkes-Barre was recently sentenced to up to eight years in state prison.

A state appellate court denied the appeal of a Laflin woman who wanted to withdraw her no-contest plea on a felony assault charge stemming from a stabbing in Harveys Lake in 2020.

WILKES-BARRE — A Northampton County man arrested while a student at Wilkes University in 2021 on allegations he used social media to prey and groom girls into sex acts was recently sentenced to nearly three decades in state prison.

The Pennsylvania Superior Court last week reversed a ruling by a Luzerne County judge who denied prosecutors the use of a Hunlock Township man’s convictions on child sex offenses.