Luzerne County Senior Judge Charles Joseph Rehkamp on Sunday was arrested on assault and harassment charges.District Judge Donald Whittaker issued an arrest warrant for Rehkamp, 61, early Sunday after state police at Wyoming responded to a reported assault at Rehkamp’s residence Saturday night, state police said.
According to court papers, Trooper Matthew Slacktish responded to Rehkamp’s home at about 8:56 p.m. and interviewed Rehkamp’s wife, Valerie, who told him that she and the judge returned from dinner at about 8:15 p.m. and that she told her husband that he had not acted appropriately at dinner and asked him to sleep elsewhere for the night.
Valerie Rehkamp told police her husband pushed her down and started to choke her, she screamed and told him to leave, according to the paperwork.
The judge then allegedly confronted his wife’s son, Lee Elliot Egenlauf, of the same address, and left the home in his dark blue Ford Crown Victoria in an unknown direction. Valerie Rehkamp added that the judge had been drinking that night, the paperwork said.
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Geez...they can't seem to clean up Luzerne County, can they?
ReplyDeletewhat is going on here? judicial positions filled by the wrong people?
ReplyDeleteI think they call that the "Lawyer Disease."
ReplyDeletesay it ain't so .... a judge drinking and breaking the law, why someone should help this poor soul.
ReplyDeleteI mean jail is cool and all, but let's not forget the psych eval and overlook the need for a guardianship. Poor man cannot manage the ordinary affairs of life.
Hey, nothing here that Title IV-D won't pay for ----- SIGN this man up!!!!! and see to it that he receives the services he so clearly needs.
Yep, a guardianship for him indeed!
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