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Police news – March 31

JS man charged with

selling bath salts

JERSEY SHORE — Taylor Kanski, 26, of 418 S. Main St., Jersey Shore, faces charges for allegedly selling 2.69 grams of suspected bath salts to an informant at Kanski’s home on Dec. 15, according to court papers filed by NEU. The next day, Kanski had a gram of bath salts in his possession, investigators said.

Charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and related offenses, Kanski was jailed in lieu of $25,000 bail and a probation violation.

JS man jailed on

drug charges

JERSEY SHORE — One day after Lawrence Eugene Gaines III allegedly sold a marijuana bag and a marijuana cartridge to an informant on March 11, NEU members executed a search warrant at his home 229 Nelson St. in Jersey Shore and seized eight ounces of marijuana, 14.76 additional grams of the controlled substance, five grams of psilocybin (a hallucinogenic drug) and five suboxone pills, according to court records filed at the office of District Judge Jerry C. Lepley.

Following his recent arraignment on a charge of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and related offenses, Gaines was jailed in lieu of $75,000 bail.

Lock Haven man charged

LOCK HAVEN — Gregory Hughes, 36, of Lock Haven, has been charged by state police with possession of marijuana at First and Memorial avenues in Williamsport on Sept. 30. He has been sent a summons to appear before Frey.

Drug possession

LOCK HAVEN — Lock Haven resident, James Smeal Jr., 26, has been charged by Tiadaghton Valley Regional police with possession of a controlled substance (1.54 grams of Eutylone — a stimulant drug found in bath salts) and possession of drug paraphernalia in the 200 block of South Main Street in Jersey Shore about 2:50 a.m. on Aug. 19, according to court records. He is free on $7,500 bail.

Second arrest made in

railroad vandalism

JERSEY SHORE — Brian James Murray, 43, of 460 Susquehanna Drive, Jersey Shore, waived his preliminary hearing on felony and misdemeanor charges that were filed after he removed $350 worth of copper wire from railroad tracks belonging to North Shore Railroad in the 300 block of Cement Drive in Porter Township sometime in mid-January, Tiadaghton Valley Regional police alleged in court papers.

The theft resulted in $3,000 damage to railroad property, police said, adding that the crime “could have resulted in a train derailment.”

Arraigned before District Judge Jerry Lepley on charges of causing or risking a catastrophe, theft, receiving stolen property, possession of an instrument of crime and railroad vandalism, Murray is free on $15,000 bail.

Co-defendant Jennifer Dawes, 45, of 37 Myers Road, Jersey Shore, was charged last month and is free on bail after waiving her preliminary hearing.

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