A rollover crash in Jefferson Twp. left several passengers injured and a homeless man facing a slew of criminal charges, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Brandon Michael Everett, 27, is charged with causing an accident while not licensed, falsely incriminating another and recklessly endangering his passengers.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, at about 9:15 p.m. on Monday, state police responded to Moosic Lake Road for the report of a Jeep Renegade involved in a rollover crash.<\/p>\n
Troopers determined Everett had been driving with three passengers, two of whom were not wearing seat belts.<\/p>\n
Everett drank at least a pint of vodka before getting behind the wheel, which impaired his ability to drive, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
His passengers told police that, just prior to the crash, he had been driving recklessly and swerving.<\/p>\n
One of the passengers described his sudden driving behavior as being \u201clike a NASCAR driver\u201d while they pleaded with him to slow down.<\/p>\n
Everett then crossed into the oncoming lane, left the roadway and struck a wall near 2072 Moosic Lake Road, rolling multiple times before his vehicle came to rest on its side.<\/p>\n
Everett then attempted to persuade one of his passengers to take responsibility for the crash, saying he was on court-ordered supervision and would get into a significant amount of trouble.<\/p>\n
Everett then fled on foot toward Jessup but was soon picked up by emergency medical personnel responding to the scene.<\/p>\n
When speaking with troopers, Everett initially denied being behind the wheel at the time of the crash and described his passengers as \u201csnitches.\u201d<\/p>\n
He refused to submit to a chemical blood test and didn\u2019t have a driver\u2019s license at the time of the crash, troopers said.<\/p>\n
Everett and his three passengers were transported to Geisinger Community Medical Center for evaluation and treatment.<\/p>\n
He is charged with three counts of causing an accident with injury, three counts of endangering others, making a false report and driving under the influence of alcohol.<\/p>\n
Everett remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $75,000 bail.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Nov. 5 before District Judge Laura Turlip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rollover crash in Jefferson Twp. left several passengers injured and a homeless man facing a slew of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,1283,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-317953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-jefferson-township","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317953","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=317953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}