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Brett Crossley

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Sep 24, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Brett Crossley

    BREAKING: Former firefighter found guilty of arson (opens the original)

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    Williamsport, Pa. — A two-day trial concluded with a former South Williamsport firefighter being found guilty of setting fire to an abandoned home. Today, a jury of five men and seven women convicted Peter Allen Zielewicz, 44, of Muncy of multiple felonies and a misdemeanor. In 2020, Zielewicz used a road flare to set his deceased mother's home on fire. Zielewicz cared for the property in the 500 block of Hastings Street for more than six months before the fire in October of 2020. The home ha

  2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Brett Crossley

    Couple accused of drugging child for sex appear in court (opens the original)

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    Williamsport, Pa. — A man and woman accused of drugging a child for sex appeared in court this week. Chief Deputy Public Defender Matthew Welickovitch argued the victim was coached by her stepmother and father to make accusations against Steve Randal Guthrie to give them full custody. Welickovitch claimed the victim's testimony was unreliable and she shouldn't be allow to take the stand. Kane is accused of drugging her daughter so Guthrie — her boyfriend at the time — could more easily m

  3. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Brett Crossley

    Suspended state policeman accused of assaulting daughter takes stand (opens the original)

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    Williamsport, Pa. — A state police corporal who allegedly used a pair of tongs to pull a cellphone from his daughter's pants took the stand Thursday. Jacob Edward Brown-Schields, 35, of Carlisle pleaded his case, saying he needed to take his daughter's cellphone to protect her from herself during an altercation in January at Williamsport's Long Island Pizza. Brown-Schields, who is suspended from Troop H in Harrisburg, said the girl was "endangering herself and others with the use of her cel

  4. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Brett Crossley

    BREAKING: Former Newberry shop employee convicted of sexually assaulting child (opens the original)

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    Williamsport, Pa. — A Williamsport man was found guilty of sexually assaulting a child following a one-day trial in Lycoming County. Joshua Carter Turner, 50, whose family owned Turner's Market in Newberry, was convicted of sexually assaulting a child — using sexual devices, liquor bottles, a Wiffle ball bat, and his own body — after hours of deliberations by a jury of four men and eight women. Turner began a relationship with the 12-year-old victim in 2012 and continued to see her into 20

  5. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Brett Crossley

    BREAKING: Child molester headed to state prison (opens the original)

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    Williamsport, Pa. — The years-long criminal case of a Williamsport man accused of sexually assaulting a young child finally ended in the Lycoming County courthouse on Friday. In a rebuke of an earlier sentencing deal offered to Cody Allen Ruhl, President Judge Eric Linhardt sentenced the 24-year-old to spend up to seven years in state prison. The Lycoming County District Attorney's office had previously offered Ruhl, who admitted forcing a 6-year-old to perform oral sex on him multiple times,

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