Arrest In Wilkes-Barre Homicide

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Wilkes-Barre, PA – Seconds after a preliminary hearing on a robbery charge late Tuesday morning, Luzerne County detectives and city police arrested Lamar Curry-Davis, 19, for the fatal shooting of Eduardo Daniel Madera last month.

Curry-Davis, of Cleveland, Ohio, was in court before District Judge Rick Cronauer on a charge he robbed another man on Park Avenue on Nov. 23. While his attorney was arguing for a bail reduction, authorities advised Cronauer that Curry-Davis was being arrested for the killing of Madera.

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Arrest In Wilkes-Barre Shooting

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WILKES-BARRE, PA – City police arrested Andre D. Fuller, 22, of Kingston, on criminal attempt to commit homicide charges in the shooting that left a 19-year-old man in critical condition earlier this month.

Police allege Fuller shot William “Chilly” Uggiano, of Park Avenue, multiple times in the area of South Grant and Wayne streets on Aug. 3.

Uggiano’s family previously said he was walking to a friend’s house for a party when he was gunned down.

Uggiano survived the shooting and remains hospitalized.

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Wilkes-Barre Police Charge 2 In Drug-Trafficking Case

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WILKES-BARRE — A wanted Philadelphia man awaiting trial on drug charges is being held in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in lieu of $50,000 bail after city police arrested him and another man on drug charges on Tuesday.

Emmanuel Williams, 20, was and found to be in possession of “distribution amounts” of heroin, police said, without elaborating.

According to police, investigation into suspected drug activity in the area around Park Avenue, Lehigh Street, East Northampton Street and Empire Street led to a traffic stop at Park and Lehigh on Tuesday.

An Edwardsville man, Rashon Whitest, 19, of Green Street, was processed and released pending a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge, police said.

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Arrest Warrant Issued In Wilkes-Barre Homicide

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WILKES-BARRE – An arrest warrant was issued for Joshua Carlos Ovalles, 19, of Kent Lane, Wilkes-Barre, charging him with the deadly shooting of Vaughn Kemp early Sunday morning.

Kemp, 24, of Park Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, was shot multiple times at 174 S. Grant St. at about 1:20 a.m.  He died at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Plains Township.

The criminal complaint filed today charges Ovalles with criminal homicide, alleging he was involved in an argument with Kemp prior to the shooting.

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Man Killed In Wilkes-Barre Shooting

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A party at 174 S. Grant St. in Wilkes-Barre came to an abrupt halt around 1:20 a.m. Sunday when shooting resulted in the death of a 24-year-old in the backyard.

Police were called to the house on a report of a “large fight with shots fired” and found Vaughn Kemp lying motionless in the backyard.

Kemp, a black man who lived a few blocks away on Park Avenue, was transported to Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Plains Township, where he was pronounced dead.

An autopsy concluded Kemp died from multiple gunshot wounds, said Luzerne County Deputy Coroner Dan Hughes.

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