What we're working on for May 11

Here's a look at the stories we're working on in the newsroom today: * Police responding to a call about a dog on a roof nab a heroin suspect instead. Leon Bogdan has the colorful tale from court. * Surveillance cameras ID a woman accused of stealing a lawyer's wallet after visiting her office. The woman used the attorney's credit cards for gas, cigarettes, and some shopping at Victoria's Secret. * Traffic cameras are coming to Route 11. Officials say they'll be used for light changes, not traffic charges. Read these stories and more in Saturday's edition of the Press Enterprise.

Man says he's done with Four Loko; Drink 'no good for nobody'

BERWICK -- A Berwick man who's been arrested four times after drinking the potent malt liquor Four Loko is done with the controversial drink, he says. Robert Jack Kaiser Jr., of 127-A E. Second St., said the fruity beverage with a high-alcohol content is "off his drinking list." "They're no good for nobody," Kaiser said while waiting for a preliminary hearing. "In 2008, the first day they came out, I drank 10 of them. That was no good," he admitted. Each can contains 12 percent alcohol, which is almost three times the potency of typical beers.

Berwick nuke plant shuts down Unit 1 for turbine fix

BELL BEND - Workers at PPL's Susquehanna nuclear power plant disconnected its Unit 1 nuclear reactor from the regional power grid early Thursday, part of a planned outage during which the company plans to modify blades on its turbines, which have had problems with cracks developing in recent years. The modifications to be done on the turbines "are the first-phase of a long-term plan that is expected to resolve the turbine blade issues," the company said in a press release. Workers made the same modifications to Unit 2 during its regularly scheduled refueling outage, which is still ongoing.

17 Danville-area teens among 27 cited for underage drinking

DANVILLE -- State Police Wednesday named 17 teenagers from the Danville area who were among 27 arrested on charges of underage drinking early Sunday at 118 Elysburg Road in Rush Township, outside of Riverside. Only those 18 or older were identified in charges filed with district court. Also charged, but not named, were 10 juveniles, the youngest a female, 15. Those cited, according to a State Police press release: * Hanna C. Harris, 18, of 118 Elysburg Road, Danville * Jared A. Daku, 19, of 70 Bennett Road, Danville * Matthew P. McConnell, 19, of 10 Red Oak Drive, Danville

Twenty-seven DHS students caught at drinking party, official says

DANVILLE -- Police will cite more than two dozen Danville students for underage drinking at a post-prom party discovered Sunday morning, school board President Allan Schappert says. The party, hosted at 118 Elysburg Road in Rush Township -- the home of Joseph and Maria Harris, according to records -- ended with one student being taken to the hospital with a high blood-alcohol content, officials said. Eight of the 27 partygoers to be cited are at least 18, Schappert said after talking with the Stonington State Police.

Former prison guard is sentenced to jail

DANVILLE -- Janette Ruth Aikey had guarded inmates at a state prison in Muncy and at Columbia County's lockup before that. But it was her third drunken driving arrest that has put Aikey, 35, behind bars herself. Aikey, 25 Mooresburg Road, rural Danville, was ordered to serve seven days in the Columbia County Prison for a traffic stop in Mahoning Township Oct. 14. An officer had seen her car swerving all over the road and stopped her. She tested twice the legal limit of blood-alcohol for driving.

Man accused of beating twin 5-year-old girls

ORANGEVILLE -- Brandon Kile beat his girlfriend's twin daughters until they were both covered in bruises, attacking them in the darkness while they slept, charges say. Police say Kile pummeled the little girls, then 4, and drove his pinky into their ear canals. He blamed some of the attacks on a "mouse that scratches," and other times called himself the "Boogie Monster" before unleashing his anger on the pre-schoolers, they told a child advocate.

Woman admits she bought meth supplies for fiancee 50 times

SHICKSHINNY -- A woman accused of conspiring with her former fiance to make meth says she bought him ingredients to cook the drug at least 50 times. Erin Rai Vitz, 30, told a court Tuesday that she bought James Adams Jr. pseudoephedrine cold medicine two days before he was spotted walking into the woods behind a neighbor's house on Mingle Inn Road, where a meth dump site was found.

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