Man from Cogan station arrested after allegedly threatening bouncer with machete

After he and a woman were ejected from the Valley Inn on Valley Street in DuBoistown late Friday night because they were both “a physical altercation within the facility”, According to South Williamsport police, James Nicholas Carr pulled out a machete in the parking lot and threatened the bouncer who threw them out.

Concerned for the woman’s safety, the bouncer left the store to confront Carr, 22, of 61 Tyler Lane, Cogan Station, after seeing Carr “Pull them aggressively out of the vehicle,” was claimed in an affidavit. When the bouncer saw the machete, he backed away after Carr told him he was “I will shoot him with his 9mm and kill him,” police alleged in the court document. The bouncer told someone to call 911 when he observed Carr pull out of the driveway around 10:40 p.m., pick up the woman who was about to leave, and head north on Valley Street in a black 2016 GMC pickup truck, police were told.

A description of the vehicle was sent to local police, while officers from South Williamsport went to the Valley Inn to question the doorman. Within minutes, police from the city and the Pennsylvania College of Technology arrived. “were outside” with the truck in the first block of Maynard Street and spoke with Carr and the woman, both “quarrelsome” with the officers, the court document states.

Carr was taken into custody and arraigned before District Judge William Solomon. He was charged with aggravated assault, attempted aggravated assault, prohibited assault weapon, possession of a weapon, terroristic threats, disturbing the peace, harassment, driving under the influence and assault on a police officer. The final charge relates to Carr’s saliva coming into contact with an officer’s face, police said. He was booked into the Lycoming County Jail on $75,000 bail.

Man behind bars for domestic disturbances

While punching his girlfriend in the face several times during an altercation at a home at 414 High St. on July 29, Turik Lizzimore repeatedly told her: “I swear to God, you are going to die,” according to an affidavit from the city police. Lizzimore, who also “Turik”, fled the house when he realized the victim had called 911, police said. When officers arrived, they noted in the affidavit that “The right side of the woman’s face was noticeably red and began to bleed and swell. Her right eye also began to bleed.” Within hours, a warrant was issued for Lizzimore’s arrest, but he was not taken into custody until early Saturday morning at an undisclosed location and charged with terroristic threats and simple assault before Solomon. Lizzimore, who now lives at 1028 Park Avenue, was held on $50,000 bail.

City man arrested on two counts of capital crime

Nearly three weeks after the county’s drug unit issued an arrest warrant for James R. Flanigan, of 673 Grier Street, detectives and members of the U.S. Marshals Service spotted the 47-year-old fugitive on Aug. 5 riding a motorcycle south on Lycoming Creek Road, according to an affidavit. Officers attempted to stop him near Mill Lane, according to the document. “Stop, police”, one of the officers shouted as he jumped out of the unmarked patrol car, the court document says. “Flanigan drove toward the curb, circled the unmarked patrol car and continued west on Mill Lane at high speed,” was stated in the affidavit. The officers initially pursued Flanigan and activated the patrol car’s hazard lights and siren, but then ended their intervention because the motorcyclist “reached speeds of 75-80 miles per hour”, the court document states. At the time, Flanigan’s driver’s license had been revoked, police said.

Flanigan was taken into custody at an undisclosed location last week and arraigned before District Judge Aaron Biichle on two counts, one related to an original arrest warrant and the other related to the brief police chase in early August. In the original criminal complaint, Flanigan was charged with two felony counts each of delivery of a controlled substance and illegal use of a communication device to allegedly sell methamphetamine to confidential informants near High Street and Wildwood Boulevard in the city on March 14 and May 6, investigators said. The second count included aggravated fleeing arrest, resisting arrest, aggravated eluding police and two misdemeanors. He remains in county jail despite not being given $150,000 bail.

Homeless woman arrested for resisting prosecutor

After Stephanie Mann, 32, twice refused to follow state police orders to leave her estranged mother’s property at 1165 Mountain Road in Upper Fairfield Township around 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 19, she had to be forcibly removed by two police officers, according to an arrest affidavit. Mann, who formerly lived in the 400 block of Mulberry Street in Montoursville but is now homeless, became very angry and began screaming while spitting in an officer’s face, police said. Mann, who remains jailed on $15,000 bail, has waived her preliminary hearing on charges of resisting arrest and trespassing.

Jersey Shore University man faces charges of sexual assault

Following a recent preliminary hearing, District Judge Denise Dieter Marshall P. Lyon, 64, of 528 Meadow Alley, Jersey Shore, has charged him with a number of felonies and misdemeanors stemming from incidents in which he had inappropriate contact with a female acquaintance in the county between January and late July, Lycoming Regional police allege in a court document. Police also allege Lyon exposed himself to the woman twice, once in January and again last month. Lyon was jailed on $85,000 bail and will face additional trials on charges of aggravated sexual assault, exhibitionism, sexual battery, stalking and harassment.

South Williamsport man charged with alleged motorcycle theft

Jeremy Earl Kaiser, 43, of 1228 W. Southern Ave., South Williamsport, has waived his preliminary hearing on Lycoming Regional Police charges of burglary, trespassing, theft and receiving stolen property. The charges relate to the alleged theft of a 2000 Harley-Davidson motorcycle from a garage at 1883 Janet Ave. in Old Lycoming Township on June 19. He remains incarcerated but has not been set bail at $50,000.