A Wyoming Borough councilman who was recently sentenced to six months of probation for violating a protection-from-abuse order was charged Monday with violating the order for a second time during a concert last week at Mohegan Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Russell Herron Jr., 48, of 234 Sharpe St., is accused of violating the PFA while attending the Plains Twp. casino\u2019s Party on the Patio concert series last Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
According to the complaint filed by township police, the woman, who is Herron\u2019s ex-girlfriend, reported that she had been walking through a crowd at the casino when Herron and his group of friends passed in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n
Minutes later, the group began walking behind the woman in what she interpreted as an act of intimidation, according to the charges.<\/p>\n
The group remained in the woman\u2019s area, staring at her, while Herron began standing directly behind her at a distance of about two feet, police allege.<\/p>\n
The woman grew \u201cfrightened and intimidated\u201d and immediately left the casino, police said.<\/p>\n
Police charged Herron with being in contempt of a PFA order that Luzerne County Judge Tarah Toohil signed into effect on Nov. 19, 2024.<\/p>\n
According to the original PFA application Herron\u2019s ex-girlfriend filed in court, her juvenile son opened a letter on Oct. 5, 2024, that contained nude pictures of the her along with a warning: \u201cTell the truth, or this will be sent to your work, and kids school, you call cops it sends!! tell the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pictures had been taken without the woman\u2019s consent and were accompanied later the same month by more explicit pictures with another threatening message, according to the filing.<\/p>\n
In March, Herron was initially charged with violating that order by referencing the woman in a Facebook post. Judge Tina Polachek Gartley found Herron on contempt of the order during a hearing the same month and sentenced him to six months of probation.<\/p>\n
Following the latest alleged violation, Herron was ordered to appear for another contempt of court hearing, this time before Toohil at 2 p.m. June 30.<\/p>\n
Herron, a Republican, was elected to a four-year term on borough council in the November 2023 general election, according to the Luzerne County Bureau of Elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Wyoming Borough councilman who was recently sentenced to six months of probation for violating a protection-from-abuse order…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,182,803,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-225797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}