Responding to a crash with a report of somebody trapped in a automobile on Wallis Run Highway in Gamble Township about 7:50 a.m. on Aug. 19, state police arrived solely to seek out Celeste Rockov, 30, of two Stoney Creek Drive, “raveled and confused,” in keeping with an affidavit. There was solely minor injury to her 2004 Toyota Corolla.
“She mentioned at first she was touring with a person who was trapped beneath her automotive. Then she mentioned she wasn’t certain if she was touring with a person or not,” the affidavit acknowledged. Nobody, besides her, was in or across the automobile, police mentioned. Rockov didn’t know the place she was, however she was lower than 300 ft from her dwelling, police mentioned. She was checked by medical personnel on the scene after which turned over to police after being medically cleared.
Rockov began to carry out commonplace discipline sobriety exams, however stopped when she started crying and thought she was going to turn into unwell, police mentioned. She admitted to smoking marijuana an hour earlier than driving, police mentioned, including {that a} blood check confirmed the drug was in her system on the time. Charged with DUI of a managed substance, she is free on $5,000 bail after waiving her preliminary listening to earlier than District Choose Gary Whiteman.
In one other case, as injured motorist Ian Garg, of Taylor, Lackawanna County, was being loaded into the again of an ambulance, the 26-year-old man admitted that he “had consumed alcohol and was driving too quick,” in keeping with a state police affidavit. Garg plowed his 2017 Nissan Sentra right into a tree in entrance of the Loyalsock Township Volunteer Hearth Firm on Northway Highway about 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 22, police mentioned.
The crash was witnessed by an on-duty paramedic contained in the firehouse. The paramedic instantly went to assist the motive force. A state trooper mentioned he detected an order of alcohol coming from Garg’s breath. The motive force, who had a blood-alcohol focus degree of .11, instructed the paramedic that he simply left a bar, police mentioned. Charged with DUI, he too was free on $5,000 bail after waiving his listening to earlier than Whiteman.
In one other case, after stopping a motorist for having a damaged headlight on their 2015 Toyota Rav4 at West Third and Arch streets within the metropolis about 1:10 a.m. on Dec. 18, an officer with the county’s DUI Job Drive clearly detected an odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from the motive force, Andrew Musila, 58, of 1105 Townscrest Highway, in keeping with an affidavit.
Musila, who admitted that he had been consuming, “confirmed indicators of impairment” whereas present process a collection of discipline sobriety exams, the courtroom doc acknowledged. Charged with DUI, Musila refused to offer a blood check. He has been despatched a summons to seem earlier than District Choose Christian Frey.
The decide can be listening to the case of Ramil Higgins, 26, of 715 W. Third St., who was stopped by a state trooper on Maynard Avenue within the metropolis about 1:40 p.m. on Jan. 12 whereas driving a 2008 Pontiac, in keeping with courtroom information. The trooper detected a powerful odor of marijuana from the automobile, police mentioned. It turned out that Higgins, whose eyes have been bloodshot and glassy, had marijuana in his system, a blood check revealed, police mentioned. Charged with DUI of a managed substance, he’s free on $2,500 bail.
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