Monroe County News

STROUDSBURG &#8212 Two teenaged boys are scheduled for an adjudication hearing in Monroe County Juvenile Court charged with rioting and other offenses after a melee Monday night in Mount Pocono.

STROUDSBURG &#8212 Two teenaged boys are scheduled for an adjudication hearing in Monroe County Juvenile Court charged with rioting and other offenses after a melee Monday night in Mount Pocono.

Accused of fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs for his own abuse, an East Stroudsburg doctor is awaiting his future appearance in Monroe County Court on the charges.

The man found dead Tuesday morning in the Stillwater Civic Association has been identified as Paul A. Lopez, 24, of Pocono Summit.

Pocono Mountain Regional Police are investigating the discovery of a body in a wooded area near Pocono Summit Lake.

Police arrested a Pocono Pines woman after they say she admitted lying to investigators when she accused her ex-boyfriend of assault and rape.

A Turkey Hill Minit Market in Monroe County was robbed Tuesday night by a man with a silver handgun.

An apparent early morning road rage incident on Route 611 in Mount Pocono netted a large load of suspected crack cocaine.

Four of five men charged with attempted murder are heading to Monroe County Court, with the fifth waiting to see if he will join his co-defendants at the county court level.

An accused fire bug is on the loose in Monroe County. State police said Jon Gilliland, 44, of Sciota tried to start a fire at the Twin Willows Bar in Hamilton Township Wednesday.

A 44-year-old Saylorsburg man fired a sawed-off shotgun in the parking lot of a Monroe County bar early Monday after arguing with a woman, state police at Swiftwater said.

A Blakeslee man was charged with homicide today in the shooting death of Steven Richard Santillo nearly a week ago in Chestnuthill Township, police said.

The former owner of a Monroe County apartment building will spend 15 to 40 years in a state prison for the 2001 shooting death of a 38-year-old tenant formerly from Easton.

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A Monroe County man was slain and his body found sprawled in the middle of a remote road by a motorist driving to work in Chestnuthill Township Thursday morning, officials said.

The crime scene resembled a shooting, but officials would not comment on how Steven Richard Santillo, 46, of Blakeslee was killed.

The motorist found Santillo about 5:30 a.m. at the intersection of Hypsie Gap and Laurel roads, state police at Fern Ridge said.

The road was closed about four hours but after it was reopened there were more than a dozen small circles on the pavement, which typically indicate where bullet casings are found.

The body of 46-year-old Steven Richard Santillo, of Blakeslee, was found at about dawn Thursday in Chestnuthill Township in Monroe County.

Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a suspicious death in Chestnuthill Township, Monroe County.

From Skycam 16 investigators can be seen looking for clues where a man's body was found along Hypsie Gap Road near Reeders Thursday morning.

Three men charged in separate cases with going into an online chat room, meeting what appeared to be a 14-year-old girl and starting conversations with her that became sexually graphic on their part, will head ...