Category: General

In case you missed it. Select local crime headlines from the past week or so:

Murderous ‘trick roll’ in Nanticoke? Local PD and State Troopers nvestigating this death and similar incidents.

A “trick roll” is a scam using the false promise of sex for money to rob a would-be customer. Victims of the scheme usually don’t report the con. But when the mark dies, it speaks volumes to law enforcement. The suspicious death of 36-year-old Mark J. Harrison in Nanticoke is under investigation after he was found deceased in his home on April 14 from a possible drug overdose. Law enforcement sources suggest that one or two women, possibly advertised as prostitutes on social media, might have intended to induce the overdose to steal from Harrison.

In 1931, a man who lived at 142 Carlisle Street ‘House of Horrors’ was murdered with an icepick.

The Times Leader’s Look Back column by Ed Lewis reports on the 1931 murder of George H. Belles, who was living at 142 Carlisle Street. Belles was murdered by a coworker with an icepick and died in Mercy Hospital.

Milford man charged with killing grandmother “She was the devil I had to do it.”

George Sisco, 28, believed his grandmother was the devil and brutally attacked and murdered her when he saw her applying flea medication to the cat. According to court documents, Sisco believed she was poisoning the pet and initially attacked her with his fists and then with a knife, stabbing her in the chest and later setting her body on fire.

Missing local woman was informant on dangerous Brooklyn gang; endured brutal beating and torture requiring reconstructive surgery during FBI investigation.

[Paywall] The Citizens Voice published an in-depth feature on the case of Danielle Marie Drozdowski, who was 25 years old when she vanished in the spring of 2014. Family members and court documents reveal that in the months leading up to her disappearance, Drozdowski became involved with members of a notorious gang and a gangster rap group from Brooklyn, New York.