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Issue 38 — Thursday, April 24, 2014
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MILFORD — Although it has been publishing much, much longer, the Pike County Dispatch has been the newspaper of record for the County of Pike for more than 40 years. That means the Dispatch is the place to go to find out about public meetings, estate notices, bids, public hearings, real estate sales and transactions, and Sheriff sales.

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Investigations Clear Stewart Of Abusing Police Authority
By Lisa Mickles

SWESTFALL — An independent investigation that took almost one year to complete has cleared Eastern Pike Regional Police Department (EPRPD) Asst. Chief Eric Stewart of any wrongdoing.

This is in relation to a complaint filed by Mill Rift resident Rollin Cook alleging that Stewart was misusing his policing authority by threatening him with a citation after Cook contacted EPRPD about two incidents in which he claimed Stewart, Cook’s neighbor and former coworker at the Pike County Jail, was target-practicing too close to Cook’s home. Responding police said they found nothing wrong.

At a May 2013 EPRPD Commission meeting, it was agreed to hire an independent investigator to look into the allegations especially since Stewart is the brother of EPRPD Chief Chad Stewart. James Schultz, a former state trooper and owner of Schultz Investigations out of Honesdale, conducted the yearlong investigation.

According to the report, after the target-practice incidents, the two met while Stewart was off duty and Cook was driving an unregistered, unlicensed golf cart. Cook said he felt threatened when Stewart mentioned that Cook was being petty about the shooting incidents and if he continued, Stewart could cite him every time he drove his golf cart on the road.

Schultz found during his investigation that neither Stewart nor the EPRPD had issued citations against Cook for driving his unregistered golf cart and that the situation was blown out of proportion between former friends, coworkers and neighbors.

Through the investigation, Schultz also found the area in which Stewart was target practicing appeared to be safe, heavily wooded and at least 250 yards from the Cook home. In addition, Westfall Township has no ordinance against shooting, nor were any state, criminal or game and wildlife laws violated... for complete story, get this week's issue.

County Plans To Submit ‘Softened’ Court Annex Design
By Lisa Payne-Mickles

MILFORD — The County intends to move forward with its current courthouse expansion plans with additional tweaking to soften the architectural design of the new addition.

“We are moving forward with our proposal because the court and the community need a modern-day secure facility,” said Chairman Richard Caridi at last Wednesday’s commissioners meeting.

Pike County Commissioners announced that they would submit their Courthouse expansion plans to the Milford Borough Planning Commission and the Architectural Review Board.

Caridi said the Pike County Commissioners have taken some criticism from opponents of the expansion design, but it is not justified since the county has been very receptive to alternate plans, noting how they have still yet to receive a proposal that was supposed to save the county $1.6 million... for complete story, get this week's issue.

Senior Citizen Fends Off ‘IRS’ Scammer
By Chris Jones

DINGMANS FERRY — The day after the April 15 tax-filing deadline, a Wild Acres senior citizen wisely fended off a phone scammer just as the IRS was issuing warnings to guard against last-minute fake calls targeting taxpayers.

Gloria Kamprath, 87, said that on Tuesday, April 16, she got a call from a man with a foreign accent who told her that she owed the IRS $2,000. When she told him she didn’t know what he was talking about, he began screaming, “The police are on the way to arrest you.”

“I’m a senior citizen. I don’t earn enough to pay taxes,” said Kamprath, who lives with her daughter in the private community in Delaware Township.

“I got so upset I went and locked the door when he said he sent the police,” Kamprath said during a phone interview last week.

But cooler thinking prevailed. Kamprath kept the number of the caller, and when he called back and left a message saying that they decided to “initiate a legal process and place a lien on her bank account,” she called her bank and they reassured her that her money was still there. Kamprath said she also informed the state attorney general’s office and the phone company about the scammer. In a press release, the IRS said that the aggressive scams are continuing even past the tax-filing deadline... for complete story, get this week's issue.

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