BLOOMSBURG — A cadaver dog found evidence of human remains at a Fair Street fire site on Monday, officials said.
And the coroner later confirmed that the body of an adult male had been found.
Officials have not confirmed the identity of the person found.
After the fire, firefighters were trying to locate Fabio Adragna, who lived at 337 Fair St. with a roommate. The roommate has been accounted for, officials say.
SALEM TWP. — A group of residents from a trailer park off Stone Church Road here were stealing their neighbors’ mail and then using it to steal their identities, police say.
Local, state and federal officials swooped down Monday on Lot 67 on Second Lane of Pleasant View Mobile Home Park, off Stone Church Road, around 9:30 a.m.
They took Ernest and Theresa Stonebraker into custody, along with two other people who live at the trailer, officials said. The other two were released without charges.
BLOOMSBURG — Flames quickly engulfed and leveled a double home in the 300 block of Fair Street near Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital early Sunday morning and spread to a college student apartment house next door.
Technologist Court Kauffman was leaving work from the hospital around 1 a.m. when he noticed flames and smoke that appeared to originate at the rear of 335-337 Fair Street just after 1 a.m.
Kauffman said he at first thought he was seeing a backyard campfire. He soon discovered the double home was ablaze.
FISHING CREEK TWP. — The owner of a flood-damaged home decided to demolish the structure Friday morning — by setting it on fire, officials say.
The blaze not only destroyed the house, it sizzled cable, fiber optic, and telephone wires hanging near the home, according to Orangeville Fire Chief Kevin Boyd.
Calls began pouring into the 9-1-1 center around 9:30 a.m. for what appeared to be a fully-involved house fire at 6 Harrison Road, Boyd said.
The property, located just off Winding Road, is visible from nearby Route 487.
UPDATE: Officers say Zachary Parker is in police custody.
BERWICK — Police arrested one man on drug charges after a raid on North Mulberry Street Thursday, but said they were still looking for two others.
BERWICK — Berwick police and members of the Columbia-Montour SWAT team raided a home on Mulberry Street Thursday morning, shutting down part of the road and forcing residents of all three apartments out onto the street.
The reported drug raid at 811 N. Mulberry St. happened around 11:15 a.m., with police cruisers, the SWAT team’s armored vehicle, and firefighters blocking off traffic on Mulberry and West Ninth Street.
Residents in neighboring apartments who’d been ordered out of the building waited across the street at the Berwick Cemetery as police searched the home.
MONTOUR TWP. — A cashier at Beer-N-More stole nearly $20,000 from the business, pocketing the cash from hundreds of sales on her register last year, arrest papers say.
Anita Bucher, 26, of 215 Valley Road, Bloomsburg, avoided detection because business owner Leonard Treat was dealing with health issues at the time, according to Montour Township police.
Bucher allegedly voided 898 sales transactions from April 23, 2018 to July 6, 2018, and took the cash from the sales. In all, they totaled $19,687, charges state.
BLOOMSBURG — A 19-year-old inmate from Columbia County Prison is in intensive care at Geisinger Medical Center after he suffered what appeared to be a seizure over the weekend, authorities said.
But Braedon Gurns’ family says they have questions about what happened to him.
Prison staff gave Gurns of Berwick emergency care after he was stricken in the dayroom area of his cell block Saturday afternoon, said Warden David Varano.
BLOOMSBURG — A suicidal man fired a shot inside a student housing apartment building early Friday morning before barricading himself in a bedroom, touching off a four-hour standoff with police, according to Bloomsburg Chief Len Rogutski.
The male, who had been staying with his girlfriend at the Honeysuckle Student Apartments near Bloomsburg University’s campus for the last several days, then fired a second shot from a handgun to destroy his cell phone during negotiations with members of the Columbia-Montour SWAT team, Rogutski said.
SALEM TWP. — Bomboy Lane will be closed Thursday so that a subsided culvert under the road, near the Will-O-Bett Farms, can be replaced.
The metal culvert under the road has rusted, leading to settling in the street surface.
We’ll have more on the project in Thursday’s Press Enterprise.