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WEST HAZLETON — One man was arrested and another is being sought after they fired shots at each other with an innocent bystander suffering a gunshot wound on Wednesday, West Hazleton police reported.

WILKES-BARRE — A Lackawanna County man found wearing no clothing below his waist and performing a self-lewd act in front of a church pleaded guilty to open lewdness and disorderly conduct.

WILKES-BARRE — A West Pittston man was sentenced this week in Luzerne County Court for selling methamphetamine and stealing a vehicle.

WILKES-BARRE — A man from Kingston who admitted to supplying fentanyl that led to a person’s overdose in Dallas Township was sentenced to state prison on Wednesday.

WILKES-BARRE — A man from Wright Township arrested during an undercover child solicitation sting was sentenced to spend up to five years in state prison on Thursday.

WILKES-BARRE — A Pittston man received a reduction of time in state prison when he was resentenced Thursday for possessing child sexual abuse materials.

WILKES-BARRE — While formal charges against alleged Luzerne County election board meeting disruptor Joseph Granteed have yet to be filed in Luzerne County Court, his attorney is taking an aggressive offensive attack.

HANOVER TWP. — Two shell casings from a 9mm and one shell casing from a .380 were found inside a Toyota Camry where Fernando Vasquez-Vittini were found lying outside covered in blood after a shooting on Boland Avenue on Aug. 9, 2020, according to a search warrant affidavit.

WILKES-BARRE — A man from Wilkes-Barre pled guilty to shoving an emergency room nurse at Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre because no one delivered him a sandwich.

WILKES-BARRE — A man was stabbed during a “financial transaction” on Elm Street early Friday morning, several law enforcement sources said.