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BY ROBERT L. BAKER (TIMES-SHAMROCK WRITER) Published: May 25, 2013
Charges were filed Friday afternoon against a Tunkhannock priest and female acquaintance who were allegedly involved in a lewd act May 17 in a public park in Wyalusing.
Rev. Daniel Joseph Doherty, 49, and Joanne Mirabelli, 47, both of Tunkhannock, were each charged by Laceyville police with a misdemeanor count of open lewdness, and summary counts of under the influence of an intoxicating beverage, participating in any obscene or indecent act and being in the park after it was closed.
Laceyville Chief Scott Parry said the charges were filed in the court of Magisterial District Judge Fred Wheaton.
According to police criminal complaints, Laceyville patrolmen Matthew Chamberlain and Patrick Butkiewicz said they saw a 2011 Jeep Liberty and a 2011 Subaru parked in the Wyalusing Borough Park around 10 p.m. on Friday, May 17.
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