A Luzerne County man was arrested after he caused a disturbance at Turkey Hill on Mulberry Street in Scranton on Nov. 28, police say.<\/p>\n
Randy Haines, 65, of Main Street, Larksville, is accused of threatening employees and customers with a metal rod and then leaving the store when police were called.<\/p>\n
Officers were called to the store at about 2:30 p.m. for a report of a man in black jacket and blue jeans carrying a pink bag and threatening others with the pole, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Police reviewed video surveillance footage, which showed Haines was walking east in the 1500 block of Mulberry Street.<\/p>\n
Officer James Griffith ordered Haines to stop, but Haines didn\u2019t.\u00a0Griffith grabbed Haines and sat him down on nearby steps.<\/p>\n
Officers then spoke with employee Lucas Davis, who said Haines had been in the store for some time before he started threatening employees and other customers.<\/p>\n
Danielle Newton, another employee, told officers Haines had been causing a disturbance as she came on shift.<\/p>\n
When asked to leave, Haines grabbed a metal pole and began swinging it around and attempting to hit others.<\/p>\n
Newton said Haines had hit her but she was not injured.<\/p>\n
Kyia Mrykalo told officers she had been sitting outside in her car when Haines yelled at her, using racial slurs.<\/p>\n
Allison Belt said she had been in the store and witnessed Haines acting disorderly and trying to hit others with the pole.<\/p>\n
Witnesses interviewed by police said Haines had caused a major inconvenience and disrupted the store\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n
Video footage showed several people attempting to take the pole from Haines in front of the store. Police found the pole near the store.<\/p>\n
When questioned by police, Haines refused to provide his identify. Officers identified him through a prescription pill bottle in his pocket.<\/p>\n
Haines was transported to Geisinger Community Medical Center for evaluation.<\/p>\n
He threatened officers several times and acted in an extremely disorderly manner.<\/p>\n
Haines faces a felony charge of making terroristic threats, as well as simple assault, falsely identifying himself to police officers and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n
He remains in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $2,500 bail.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:15 a.m. on Dec. 9 before District Judge Sean McGraw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Luzerne County man was arrested after he caused a disturbance at Turkey Hill on Mulberry Street in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,29212,182,803,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-51593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-lackawanna-county","10":"tag-larksville","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-luzerne-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-scranton","16":"tag-scranton-headlines","17":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51593","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=51593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}