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Man charged with carrying meat cleaver

Published August 29. 2016 01:03PM

Tamaqua Police responded to Depot Square Park at 7:41 p.m. on Aug. 21 after receiving a report about a person armed with a weapon.

At the gazebo, officers spoke with Dustin Gene Starkey, 18, of East Elm Street, Tamaqua. Starkey admitted he was carrying a meat cleaver in the pocket of his cargo pants, saying he was carrying the weapon because he had been threatened and harassed by another man.

Starkey will be charged with carrying a prohibited weapon.

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