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NANTICOKE — A man wanted on drug possession and traffic offenses and another wanted by the Luzerne County Sheriff’s Department were apprehended following a standoff with local police and U.S. Marshals Service earlier Tuesday.

Brandon Brian Mayewski, 24, of West South Street, Nanticoke, and Joseph Bobbin, 32, were taken into custody at about 12 p.m. when they attempted to escape a residence on East Green Street.

Mayewski and Bobbin initially refused to exit the residence but were caught when they ran out a rear door.

Court records say Mayewski was wanted on an arrest warrant stemming from a traffic stop on Sans Souci Parkway, Hanover Township, on Jan. 6.

When a township officer was behind Mayewski’s Hyundai at a red traffic signal, Mayewski reversed his vehicle nearly colliding with the police cruiser, court records say.

Mayewski then shifted into drive and pulled off the right shoulder of Sans Souci, jumping out claiming their was something wrong with the vehicle, according to court records.

The officer noticed expired inspection and emission stickers on the vehicle’s windshield and a syringe in plain view in the middle cup holder, court records say.

Mayewski was detained after he told an officer he was not diabetic.

During a search of his body, police found four glassine packets in his jeans pocket, court records say.

Mayewski allegedly admitted there were drugs inside the vehicle.

Police in court records say a search of the vehicle resulted in a bag filled with heroin/fentanyl and four syringes.

Mayewski was arraigned by District Judge Joseph Halesey in Hanover Township on two counts of possession of a controlled substance, and one count each of possession of drug paraphernalia, driving with a suspended…

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Flames tear through home in Honey Pot section of Nanticoke, active brush fire nearby | WOLFPlease ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes ofwebsite accessibility-1; } // command = ‘getUSPData’, version = 1, callback = function(uspData: uspdata, success: boolean) window.__uspapi = function (command, version, callback) { if (command === ‘getUSPData’ && version === 1) { if (isFullMeasure() || getPrivacyKVP()) { // enable via KVP or if the site is fullmeasure.news // check trustarc for privacy info var uspString = getTrustArc(); if (uspString) { // if the uspString was created and returned properly // Then perform callback with correct object var uspData = { version: version, uspString: uspString }; return callback(uspData, true); } } } // Case where command !== getUSPData || uspString returns null || version !== 1 || !usPrivacyEnabled // call callback with uspData = null and success = false return callback(null, false); } function getTrustArc() { if (window.truste && window.truste.cma) { // if the trustarc object and methods are available var url = location.protocol + ‘//’ + location.host; // Get consent decision by calling trustarc api var consentDetails = window.truste.cma.callApi(“getConsentDecision”, url); /* returns consentDetails: {consentDecision:$integer, source:”asserted”} consentDetails.source can be “asserted” or “implied” – ignore for our purposes consentDetails.consentDecision can be 0, 1, 2, or 3 0 – no decision (closing banner without making a decision) 1 – required – “opted out” 3 – advertising – accepted */ var uspPrivacyString = formatUSPrivacyString(consentDetails.consentDecision); return writeUSPrivacyString(uspPrivacyString); } else { return null; } } // Handle getting the value of the notice_behavior cookie (provided for us by trustarc) function getCookieData(name) { var value = ‘; ‘ + document.cookie; var parts = value.split(‘; ‘ + name + ‘=’); if (parts.length === 2) { return parts.pop().split(‘;’).shift(); } return…

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Crews also had to deal with brush fires sparked after the house caught fire Tuesday afternoon.

NANTICOKE, Pa. — Heavy smoke was seen for miles as flames tore through a duplex on Keech Street in Nanticoke. 

The fire chief says they responded around 1:40 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, and when they arrived, the fire already started to spread to another home next door.

“We were able to stop the fire at the adjoining house. We kept it just to the exterior of the building, but the fire building itself is a total loss,” said Chief Mark Boncal, Nanticoke City Fire Department.

Jana Capps lives on the other side of the house on fire. She says she smelled smoke, then saw the flames coming out of her neighbor’s house and was worried that the fire would spread.

“I just threw my dog in the car and what I needed to take and went up and parked in the parking lot,” said Jana Capps, Nanticoke.

Her concerns became reality because the fire spread from the house, igniting a brush fire in a nearby wooded area.

“The wind conditions and everything else, a lot of the embers that were coming off the burning building, the wind just took it,” explained Chief Boncal.

A man and his dog live on the right side of the home and were able to get out safely while the other side of the home was vacant. 

Capps says she spoke with her neighbor about what he heard just before the fire started, “He said that he heard somebody next door, and nobody lives next door.”

The fire chief says a state police fire marshal will investigate the cause of the fire, and the home will most likely be torn down soon.

Detectives with the Nanticoke Police Department say they,…

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