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Former Franklin County, Pa., jail warden John Wetzel received unanimous approval Tuesday from the Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee as its choice for state corrections secretary. Wetzel, a Chambersburg, Pa., resident, is awaiting a confirmation vote from the Senate as a whole. He has been acting corrections secretary for 12 weeks after being tapped by Gov. Tom Corbett for the position. Wetzel said he's visited 20 of the state's 27 prisons in his time as acting corrections secretary.

A Mississippi truck driver who led police on a three-state chase Monday morning that miraculously ended without injury faces a stack of criminal and traffic offenses in West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Thomas L. McNeel, 42, of Pontotoc, Miss., was being held Tuesday in Franklin County Jail on $250,000 bond, a jail spokeswoman said. He was charged in Pennsylvania with fleeing or attempting to elude police, intent to possess a contraband substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence of a controlled substance, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, reckless driving, careless driving and traffic offenses, court records said.

A man who had been held in a Pennsylvania state prison was in Washington County District Court on Monday for a bond hearing on child sexual abuse charges from a decade ago, court records said. William Thomas Berry III, 28, formerly of Hagerstown, is being held on charges of sexual abuse of a minor, sexual abuse of a minor as a continuing course of conduct and child abuse, court records said. Berry was being held on an interstate detainer from Pennsylvania, although Washington County Assistant State's Attorney Michele Hansen said she did not know what sentence he had been serving in that state.

Reading, Pa., man charged with rape is taken into custody WAYNESBORO, Pa. - A man charged with rape in Berks County, Pa., was taken into custody in Waynesboro on Tuesday morning, Waynesboro police said in a news release. Police said Keyen Darnell Camper, 29, of Reading, Pa., was arrested at 519 Pratt Court in Waynesboro. He is charged with rape, indecent assault and burglary by the Hamburg (Pa.) Police Department, the news release stated. Camper was incarcerated in the Franklin County (Pa.)

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A 34-year-old woman was charged Wednesday with sexual exploitation of children for conduct with her own sons, according to the Chambersburg Police Department. The unidentified woman was also charged with unlawful contact with minors and indecent assault, police said. The incidents involved the woman's 13- and 14-year-old sons, police said. The woman was jailed on $125,000 bond in the Franklin County Jail, police said. Her name was not released to protect the identity of the children, police said.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A 34-year-old woman was charged Wednesday with sexual exploitation of children allegedly involving conduct with her two sons, according to the Chambersburg Police Department. The unidentified woman also was charged with unlawful contact with minors and indecent assault, police said. The incidents involved the woman's 13- and 14-year-old sons, police said. The woman was jailed on $125,000 bond in the Franklin County Jail, police said. The woman's name was not released to protect the identity of the children, police said.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. -- Police are seeking a Franklin County Jail inmate who failed to return from work release Saturday morning, according to a press release from Warden John Wetzel. The inmate, James Vrdzick, 21, was incarcerated July 2 for a parole violation on an original charge of receiving stolen property, Wetzel said. He has about 16 months left on his parole, Wetzel said. Vrdzick's last known address was in Falling Waters, W.Va. His work-release job was in the Chambersburg area, Wetzel said.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- An inmate who escaped from a work-release job in Franklin County, Pa., Saturday has been recaptured in Virginia, the Berkeley County (W.Va.) Sheriff's Department said in a news release Wednesday night. The Berkeley County Sheriff's Department received information Wednesday that James William Vrzick, 21, was attempting to leave the county, the release said. According to the release, officers were able to find Vrzick as he was traveling into Virginia. They contacted Virginia State Police, who set up a traffic stop at around the 319 mile marker on Interstate 81. Vrzick was taken into custody without incident.

Pa. man charged with indecent exposure CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. -- A Chambersburg man was charged with indecent exposure and corruption of a minor after he allegedly exposed himself to a 13-year-old boy Wednesday in the 1800 block of Johnson Road, according to a Pennsylvania State Police press release. Marc Johnson, 57, was released Saturday from the Franklin County Jail after posting $10,000 bail, a jail spokeswoman said. Further details were unavailable. Pa. woman charged with assaulting ex-boyfriend CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. -- A Fayetteville, Pa., woman was charged with simple assault for attacking her ex-boyfriend after she found him in bed with another woman Sunday morning, Pennsylvania State Police said.

FALLING WATERS, W.Va. -- A 21-year-old escapee from the Franklin County, Pa., Jail was spotted in Berkeley County Tuesday but eluded police, according to the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department. Police received information that James William Vrzick was staying in an Econo Lodge motel at 5595 Hammonds Mill Road, according to a news release. At about 11:30 a.m., officers from the sheriff's department, the West Virginia State Police and the U.S. Marshal's Service went to a room at the motel where Vrzick had been staying and found two people, but not Vrzick, police said.