The city police department's Selective Enforcement Unit and Street Operations Group targeted drug dealing and other street-level crimes on Thursday and Friday.
On Thursday evening, police said, they arrested Albert Louis Johnson, 37, of the 300 block of West Vine Street, and Terrence Jaron Hogue, 18, of the 500 block of Juniata Street, after an undercover drug sting.
Police said they documented Johnson purchasing crack cocaine from Hogue in the city's southwest quadrant.
Johnson and Hogue were charged with delivery of cocaine and criminal conspiracy to deliver cocaine, police said; Johnson was also charged with possession of cocaine.
• Police were checking hazards from fireworks on Friday evening in the 400 block of Manor Street when officers heard gunshots coming from Campbell Alley.
One of the three people officers spotted in the alley was carrying a gun and refused to comply when told repeatedly to drop it, police said.
Officers chased Jason Soto-Gonzalez, 24, down Manor Street and wrestled the weapon from his hand after he tripped in the first block of New Dorwart Street.
The serial number had been filed off the gun to make tracing difficult, according to police, who recovered shell casings in the area.
Soto-Gonzalez, of the 700 block of North Duke Street, was charged with two weapons violations, recklessly endangering another person and resisting arrest, police said.
• The two special police units were still wrapping up the gun incident when they interrupted a drug deal less than a block away. After another brief struggle, this time with one of the dealers, police said, several people were taken into custody and 3½ grams of powder cocaine were confiscated.
The total street value of the drugs recovered was about $300, according to police.
Two other men were arrested and charged in connection with the incidents, police said:
Angel Luis Hernandez-Martinez, 45, of the 200 block of West Mifflin Street, and Luis Colon-Vega, 30, of the 300 block of Beaver Street, were charged with possession with intent to deliver cocaine and criminal conspiracy to possess with the intent to deliver cocaine.
• Kenneth Stanley Sellers, 60, of the 1000 block of College Avenue, was charged with possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia after a disturbance at the 1722 Motel, 1722 Old Philadelphia Pike, at 1:59 p.m. Friday, East Lampeter Township police said.
A second person in the hotel room, Serena Schmuck, 23, of the 1300 block of East Cocalico Road, Denver, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, providing a false name and illegal possession of brass knuckles, police said.
• Nicole A. Inslee, 19, and Shakisha N. Moore, 18, both of the 1500 block of Duffland Drive, Landisville, were charged with possession of marijuana Friday stemming from a traffic stop June 13 when they were seen by Manheim Township police smoking marijuana in their car on Harrisburg Pike, police said. Police said a small amount of the drug was found in the vehicle.
FIRE CALL: City firefighters were called to a blaze that damaged a home at 835 Marjory Terrace Saturday night.
The fire, called in just after 9:30 p.m. after 911 dispatchers received several reports of a house on fire, was confined to the basement, said Lancaster Bureau of Fire Battalion Chief Bob Pennypacker. One woman was taken to Lancaster General Hospital, reportedly for anxiety.
The owners, identified by a relative as Ray and Charlotte Godwin, were out of town on vacation. The woman taken to the hospital was identified as Lucille Godwin, Ray Godwin's mother.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation Saturday night, Pennypacker said. Damage estimates were unavailable. Manheim Township EMS and city police also responded to the scene.
VANDALISM: Nine windshields, including six on two New Holland car lots, were smashed overnight Thursday and Friday.
New Holland police said windshields on four vehicles were smashed overnight Thursday in the New Holland Toyota parking lot, 524 W. Main St.
Windshields on two vehicles were also smashed that night at the New Holland Auto Group, 201 Diller Ave., police said. Toyota is part of New Holland Auto Group.
Windshields on the cars of three residents of the 500 block of Westfield Drive were broken overnight Friday, New Holland police said.
• The front windshield of a 1993 Yukon was smashed while the vehicle was parked in a driveway overnight Friday in the 200 block of West Huyard Road, Earl Township police said.
• A rock thrown at the front window of a home in the 300 block of South Ann Street at 12:24 a.m. Friday caused about $55 damage, city police said.
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT: Maria E. Moran, 44, of the 100 block of East Main Street, New Holland, was arrested about 5 a.m. Tuesday after her 15-year-old daughter told New Holland police that she was swinging a kitchen knife and threatening to stab the girl and her 25-year-old sister.
Police said the knife came within a foot of the teenager but the older daughter grabbed Moran and got the knife away.
Moran was charged with aggravated asault and two counts of terroristic threats. She was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Dan Garrett, Lititz, who committed her to Lancaster County Prison in lieu of $25,000 cash bail, police said.
DUI: James Kotch, 61, Mount Joy, was arrested for driving under the influence and other traffic violations after he abruptly stopped at South Angle Street and Clay Alley in Mount Joy for unknown reasons at 12:53 a.m. Friday, State Police at Ephrata said.
• A Holtwood woman was charged with DUI after a crash that happened around 8 p.m. Friday in Martic Township.
State Police at Lancaster said Sharan J. Baran, 55, was eastbound on Martic Heights Drive when her vehicle went out of control and hit an embankment. Baran suffered a minor injury, police said.
• Yong Hun Kwon, 23, of Mountville, was charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants Saturday, State Police at Ephrata said. Kwon was stopped on Route 222 near Landis Valley Road in Manheim Township for speeding and erratic driving at 2:47 a.m., police said.
PUBLIC DRUNKS: Benjamin J. Freil, 26, of the 5300 block of South View Drive, New Holland, was cited for public drunkenness after police saw him staggering along Brimmer Avenue at Grant Street in New Holland at 1:36 a.m. Saturday.
• Kyle Blosenski, 29, Honey Brook, was charged with public drunkenness and disorderly conduct after he demanded money from family members and became unruly shortly before 9 p.m. June 28 in Salisbury Township, State Police at Ephrata said.
CRASHES: Alex Barton, 20, of the 100 block of Skyline Drive, New Holland, was cited for careless driving after he fell asleep while driving in the 500 block of New Holland Road and hit a telephone pole at 1:40 a.m. Friday, police said. Barton was not injured, but his car was severely damaged.
• Four people were injured in a two-car crash at Route 272 and Rose Hill Road at 6:07 p.m. Thursday.
West Earl Township police said George York, 80, York Haven, was northbound on Route 272 when his vehicle hit another vehicle operated by a 17-year-old Ephrata boy stopped for a turn onto Rose Hill Road.
York and a passenger, Sara Morrow, 18, Lancaster, were taken to Lancaster General Hospital for injuries. They are no longer in the hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Two passengers in the boy's car, a 15-year-old Akron boy and a 13- year-old Lititz girl, were also injured and taken to LGH. Their names weren't released and the hospital did not give their conditions.
• Justine Paige Leaman, Peach Bottom, was northbound on Route 272 in Little Britain Township shortly before noon Saturday when her vehicle went out of control on a turn and veered into a ditch, State Police at Lancaster said.
• Three people suffered minor injuries after a crash at 2:35 p.m. Friday in Leacock Township.
State Police said a vehicle driven by Roger Torres, 40, of East Elmhurst, N.Y., collided with a vehicle driven by Shane J. DeHaven, 18, of New Holland, at New Holland Road and Red Well Drive.
The drivers were taken to Lancaster General Hospital for treatement, along with Helen L. Torres, 43, a passenger in the Torres car, police said.
Roger Torres was charged with failure to yield, police said.
HIT AND RUN: The driver of a van lost control of the vehicle on Route 72 in Rapho Township and drove down a steep embankment, getting stuck in a soy field around 11:30 p.m. Friday. State Police at Ephrata said the driver then fled the scene.
THEFTS: Eleven refrigeration compressor units were taken from a storage barn in the 700 block of Cold Springs Road, Rapho Township, between midnight and 9 a.m. Tuesday.
State Police at Ephrata said each unit is valued at $1,200.
• An American flag on a wooden pole was taken from a garage in the 2500 block of School House Lane, Caernarvon Township, overnight Thursday, State Police at Ephrata said.
• A green FUGI mountain bike valued at $200 was taken from the New Holland Sales Stable, 110 S. Railroad Ave., sometime before 2 p.m. Friday, New Holland police said.
• A $900 generator being used to light a construction site at the former Shawnee Hotel, 3001 Oregon Pike, was stolen overnight Thursday, Manheim Township police said.
• East Lampeter Township police accused Kalique Brown, 25, Lancaster, of trying to steal merchandise worth $194.87 from Wal-Mart, 2034 Lincoln Highway East, at 10:18 a.m. Friday and charged her with retail theft.
• Jeannie Garcia, 25, of the 500 block of Sterling Place, was charged with retail theft after officers accused her of taking $217.62 worth of merchandise from the same Wal-Mart Friday at 8:45 p.m., East Lampeter Township police said.
HARASSMENT: Brian Moskal, 28, of Denver, was charged with harassment after State Police at Ephrata said he punched a 22-year-old Denver man in the face during an argument on Route 897, just west of the West Cocalico Township line in Clay Township, at 10:37 p.m. Thursday.
WARRANT: Rudy Matinez, 29, of the 500 block of St. Joseph Street, was arrested and cited for throwing trash out the window of the car he was in at about 10 a.m. Thursday in the 1200 block of Manheim Pike, Manheim Township police said. He was turned over to Penn Township on a non-traffic warrant, police said.
