Tamaqua police
Tamaqua police reported on the following incidents in the borough.
• Police charged Omar Rodriguez Paomares, 40, of Hazle Township, following a July 4 incident at the Bungalow pool.
According to police, a lifeguard overheard a group of people using profanitie around 3 p.m., and asked them to stop. When they did not, she asked again, and a confrontation ensued. Two other lifeguards intervened and asked the group to leave.
As they were leaving, police said the group became disorderly. They demanded a refund, but were refused. As they left, police said they dumped trash on the road and then entered a vehicle. As they drove away, Rodriguez Paomares threw a water bottle at a woman.
Police charged Rodriguez Paomares, who is also known as Carlos Martinez, with disorderly conduct/engage in fighting; disorderly conduct/obscene language; scattering rubbish and harassment.
• Guillermo A. Payano-Almanzar, 37, of Tamaqua, was cited for public drunkenness after he helped himself to two cans of beer and argued with a clerk at a Tamaqua convenience store at 3:20 a.m. June 22, borough police said.
According to police, officers were called to the store where they saw the employee and Payano-Almanzar arguing. Police said Payano-Almanzar told them that the clerk was dumping beer on him and that he needed to pay his taxi driver.
The clerk told police that Payano-Almanzar entered the store, walked to a cooler and helped himself to a beer. The clerk grabbed the can but Payano-Almanzar took another and tried to open it. The two fought over the can, with Payano-Almanzar getting soaked in beer.
Police said they later learned that Payano-Almanzar had a previous run-in with Hazleton police, who sent him home in a taxi. Officers told Payano-Almanzar that he would be cited and took him to his home.
• Jessica Davenport, 35, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was cited for public drunkenness on June 25.
Police said they were called to a disturbance at a Hunter Street apartment and spoke to a woman who said that Davenport was staying with her for a few days while she visited her daughter.
The woman said Davenport had been drinking and began fighting with the daughter. Police said no injuries were observed on the girl.
As police spoke to Davenport outside the apartment, they said she became upset, began to cry and began wandering in the street. After several warnings, police took her into custody and cited her for public drunkenness.
• A homeless woman was charged with indecent exposure after a doorbell camera caught her naked from the waist up.
Cory Matalavage, 43, also opened the door of the Rowe Street home where the footage was captured around 11 p.m. June 27, but did not enter the home, police said.
According to police, Matalavage is homeless and there have been recent reports of her being on other people’s properties and causing minor disturbances. She was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Stephen Bayer and released on $5,000 unsecured bail.
• Theodore Koller, 51, of Summit Hill, was charged with providing false information when he attempted to purchase a firearm at a borough gun shop in October.
Police said they were notified about the false statements by Pennsylvania State Police’s Firearms Unit on June 28.
He was charged with providing a materially false written statement and statement under penalty.