A vicious assault in Frackville Tuesday afternoon injured three people, led to a countywide alert and eventually sent four assailants to jail.

The defendants were arraigned Tuesday night before duty District Judge Stephen Bayer in Tamaqua.It began in the afternoon, shortly before 2 p.m., when Frackville Police were dispatched to 240 N. Nice St. for a fight involving weapons.The caller said three men and a woman entered the home and assaulted the three people inside.One of the men pulled a knife and another was armed with a ball-peen hammer.The quartet was reportedly fleeing in a white work van with a ladder on top, driven by a Bethany Fowler, 29, of 117 N. Lehigh Ave., Shenandoah, cousin of one of the victims.Police interviewed the three victims and found that Katrina Fowler had a busted upper lip and several hanks of hair missing from her head.Another victim, Brittany Marks, had a puncture wound on her left shoulder blade, while Scott Parsons had a slashed arm and neck, a possible broken elbow, several open wounds and numerous bruises and contusions to his head and face.According to the victim's statements, Parsons was upstairs in a bedroom while Katrina Fowler and Marks were in the living room. The front door suddenly crashed open and three males entered the home, followed by Bethany Fowler.Bethany Fowler began punching and kicking her cousin, knocking her to the floor. Once she had her cousin on the floor, she punched her in the face, several times, then began pulling out her hair.While this was happening, one of the males, later identified as Ronexon Luis Collado, 21, of 114 N. West St., Shenandoah, used a knife to poke Marks in the shoulder.While this was going on downstairs, Parsons was being struck in the head and arm by Elvis D. Peralta Geraldin, 26, of 4 S. Jardin St., Shenandoah, who was swinging a ball-peen hammer. As Parsons tried to escape, Collado slashed his arm and neck with a knife.The third man was identified as Colin Daniel Fogarty, 28, of 129 Schuylkill Ave., Shenandoah.The quartet then fled the house, with Fowler taking her cousin's cell phone.Shortly after a bulletin was issued to county police, Mahanoy City Police Chief John Kaczmarczyk stopped a white work van in the area of West Centre Street. Fowler, Geraldin, Collado and Fogarty were all inside. They were transported back to Frackville where they were positively identified as the assailants.All four defendants were arraigned on charges of burglary, aggravated assault