SCRANTON — A Dunmore man drove away with a woman’s arm inside his vehicle after the woman got out of her car to speak to him about a minor crash at an intersection.
Raymond Lukasik twice bumped a vehicle in front of him at a traffic light at Mulberry Street and Adams Avenue on June 5, police said. The 64-year-old man is charged with leaving the scene of an accident, recklessly endangering another person and criminal mischief.
Lukasik, of 203 Sunset Drive, told police he drove away with Nicole Simmons’ arm inside his vehicle because he was trying to get out of the way of approaching fire engines.
Simmons told police, who arrived at about 9:30 a.m., that she was waiting at a red light when Lukasik hit her vehicle from behind. When the light turned green, she remained stopped, intending to speak with Lukasik, who was driving a Ram ProMaster cargo van. He then bumped her vehicle a second time, police said.
When Simmons confronted Lukasik at his driver’s side window, he spit in her face, she told police. Simmons started recording the incident on her phone.
Lukasik then drove away with Simmons’ arm still in the vehicle, police said. He threw her phone out the window and the screen cracked.
Simmons told officers Lukasik also drove over her foot.
Officers reviewed city cameras, which showed Simmons approaching the van and the van pulling away with her arm inside of it. The footage did not directly show Lukasik driving over Simmons’ foot, police said.
Lukasik admitted he bumped Simmons’ vehicle and then, when she refused to move, bumped it a second time, police said.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9:45 a.m. on July 21 before District Judge Alyce Farrell.