his front door along Fairview Drive in Hemlock
Township July 1, 2012.
He was shot by a rifle from
a sniper’s nest in nearby
woods and shot again at
close range by a handgun,
FRANKLIN
forensics evidence showed.
His business had been
burglarized three years earlier while he
was in the middle of a contentious divorce
and custody fight with Sanutti-Spencer.
Fire destroyed that property a year later.
Her father, 73-year-old Anthony Rocco
Franklin, remains a codefendant in the
murder and a string of other crimes, including two arsons, a burglary and attempted homicide of Frank’s former girlfriend,
Julie Dent. Franklin is accused of setting a
fire at Dent’s Valley Township home in the
Please see KILLER page 12
Bruin spotted on BU campu
By KRISTIN BAVER
Press Enterprise Writer
BLOOMSBURG — A frightened young black bear galloped
through the middle of town here
Friday afternoon, circling the
area near Fifth and East streets
before eventually fleeing into
some brush.
Children at the Columbia
Child Development Center were
ushered inside as the bear padded
close to a playground off Strawberry Avenue around 4 p.m., said
Police Chief Roger Van Loan.
The bruin ambled toward Fifth
Street, breaking into a swift trot
down the sidewalk across the
road from Good Old Days
ing up a dog penned in a ba
on Chestnut Avenue.
But several police c
were on the bear’s tail, tr
coax the animal out of tow
a tree. “He doesn’t want
town anymore than we wa
to be here,” Van Loan sai
job is to keep the bear s
keep the people safe.”
With engines and horn
ing behind it, the bear eve
fled toward the airport an
peared into the sparse tre
Kinney Run around 4:30 p
It was the third cons
day when black bears ca
disturbance in the area.
Berwick police chief Police allege
heads to White House upgraded K
Lawman to talk about drugs, rehabilitation
By PETER KENDRON
Pennsylvania with Director Michael Botticelli and other senior
Press Enterprise Managing Editor
White House officials
It’s part of a push to support
BERWICK — The police chief
here wants to focus on getting a White House plan to put $1.2
drug addicts help, not just piling billion for opioid addiction treaton criminal charges.
ment into the federal
And next week, his
budget.
recently hatched addicThe Berwick Police
tion program will get a
Department has arrested
big boost.
396 people for 1,126 drugrelated charges since
Chief Ken Strish will
2012.
have the chance to share
Often, the same dehis vision with the counfendants are repeatedly
try’s National Drug Concharged, and after time in
trol Policy Director at
jail “they keep returning
the White House.
STRISH
to our community withStrish will join about
out the means to move
20 other law enforcement
officers in the Roosevelt Room, forward,” Strish said Friday.
across the hall from the Oval OfAddiction help
fice, where he will share the state
Earlier this year, Berwick reof the fight against heroin and
Please see CHIEF page 12
methamphetamine in northeast
By KRISTIN BAVER
Press Enterprise Writer
DANVILLE — An angry you
kicked over a trash can, flipped ove
and caused other destruction at the
revived Kidsville here, charges say.
Police say Kahsean James Bohne
at least $500 in damage Thursday nig
he was at the park drinking Miller L
Authorities responding to a call
African American kid destroying K
found Bohner, 910 Bald Top Road, D
at the park.
When Officer Jacob Walker as
what was going on, Bohner threw h
in the air and told the cop, “Take me
did it,” an affidavit says.
Walker could smell alcohol on B
breath and a preliminary breath te
his blood-alcohol level was .052 perc
comparison’s sake, the legal limit fo
under 21 is .02 percent.
‘K-Diddy’
The Kidsville area at the Wash
“We were lucky yesterday afternoon
when big thunderstorms developed just
to our east, then moved across eastern
Pennsylvania and into New Jersey. One
of the thunderclouds, near Nanticoke,
towered about 50,000 feet into the
atmosphere.
“Now that June has ended, meteorological summer is one-third over.”
Thaddeus Quackus, PE weatherbird
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Since B
settleme
ry, Ryan
the mon
to aggressively crack down on the peo- strong support from law enforcement
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In e
ple selling heroin and meth, he said.
may help it pass in the current session. name w
But the second part of the solution is
ceived a $5,750 grant from the Central
the deed
In Congress
Susquehanna Community Foundation removing the demand from the streets,
agreed a
A spokesman for local Congressman stop the
that aims to unite police with mental Strish said.
“The
addicts
brought
people
selling
Lou Barletta said he would have to exhealth and drug addiction specialists so
amine the White House’s budget amend- Musta
any addict seeking treatment can get it, the drugs here,” he said.
By combining treatment for users ment.
he said. So far, officers have been able
Ryan
Barletta sponsored an opioid bill ear- on the ta
to refer two addicts to the proper treat- with heavy enforcement against drug
dealers,
“We’re
hoping
those
people
reclier this year that would require states to
ment programs without slapping them
ognize that Berwick is not a place they show they were putting safe care plans ny and B
with misdemeanor charges that could
money, b
want to come.”
in place for babies born to addicted
cause them to lose jobs.
mothers. He’s now a negotiator for the brother’
The police department has also beBudget amendment
house on an overall opioid package that didn’t g
gun making connections with organizaship in t
Strish said the invitation to Washing- could include money for treatment.
tions like CMSU, White Deer Run Treat“The
ton came quickly.
“Rep.
Barletta
is
a
firm
supporter
of
ment, the Salvation Army and others
Berwick just joined PAARI recently, efforts to fight opioid addiction, includ- if somet
to find out what treatment options are
but last week, Strish got a call from one ing protecting babies and their caregiv- to me,” R
available.
That’
of its founding members, Chief Leonard ers,” said spokesman Tim Murtaugh.
It’s pursuing a $42,000 federal grant
Campanello of Gloucester, Mass.
Strish said providing treatment rath- and Bren
to continue the program and also joined
He was inviting Strish to the White er than jail time makes sense because part own
the Police Assisted Addiction and Re- House.
“Addiction is a disease, not a crime. were en
covery Initiative, or PAARI, a national
Friday, he and other members of Increasing access to treatment versus they said
group of police forces looking to get peo- PAARI will go to the White House in prison time is the appropriate way to the cam
ple help with drug addictions.
apartme
support of President Obama’s budget fight this disease.”
Sun and Moon
River Stages
Chief ‘Addiction is a disease, not a crime,’ Strish says
Sever
amendment, which would set aside $1.2
Contact Peter Kendron at 570-387-1234, Leslie a
billion for opioid addiction treatment
over the next two years. Strish said it ap- ext. 1305, or at peter.kendron@pressen- move ba
Back
The idea isn’t to give up on enforcing peared the measure has bipartisan sup- terprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at:
along. T
the law, Strish said. Police will continue port in Congress and the group is hoping http://www.twitter.com/PEKendron
clashes,
wasn’t u
moved t
trouble
The
running
And sin
to a picn
ployed, swarming East Street usually human space: food so it knows there are humans to inflat
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and mating.
and the surrounding area.
nearby, then give the animal to anoth
“It depends on what’s go- time and space to leave on its she said
Officers encouraged people
Street toward Town Hall.
A man changing a tire on who were out on the streets ing on in the woods,” said Rog- own. Slowly backing away from rived ho
Fourth Street said the beast to head for shelter while the ers, long a bear researcher. the bruin can help show there’s moved, h
When bears show up among no threat while allowing the
“walked right by him,” Van bear was on the move.
They also blocked traffic humans, “it’s almost always animal more room to flee.
Loan said. A woman peering
‘Just
“Encountering a bear can
out of a screen door on the 400 to some streets in its path and because of a lack of food in
“Tha
be startling, but try to remain stairs a
block of East Street was just followed it to the southern the woods.”
Nursing mothers with calm,” the state urges.
stepping out her front door end of town.
me,” Lil
If you try to run or climb
As it headed east on Fifth their cubs can be the hungriwhen the animal came wanShe s
dering around the corner of Street, dashing down the est, since they also have to a tree it’s a sure bet you’ll be then pus
out matched. “Running may the roo
empty sidewalk, authorities produce milk.
her porch, he added.
Van Loan has dealt with hoped the wild animal would
During the mating season, prompt the bear to give chase, interven
Berwick:
Not a place for dealers
Bear ‘Encountering a bear can be startling, but try to remain calm’