12/2/16
by News Department on 12/02/16Abduction charges...

Summit Hill police have charged a Coaldale woman for her part in an alleged abduction and robbery that occurred last month and are still looking for her two accomplices.
Authorities said 49 year old Kerri Blasko along with 54 year old John Russup, of Tamaqua and 31 year old Amber Neff, of Spring Grove, were wanted in connection with an alleged abduction that resulted in the stabbing and robbery of a Tamaqua woman on the evening of Nov. 18.
According to police, the woman reported that she had been picked up in Tamaqua and driven to East Mountaintop Road in the White Bear section of Summit Hill, where she was robbed and stabbed by two women and a man. The assailants then took her money and threw her out of the vehicle.
Blasko was picked up on an arrest warrant for the incident by Mahoning Township police following a traffic stop on Sunday, was arraigned and jailed in the Carbon County Correctional Facility unable to post $10,000 bail.
Warrants have been issued for Russup and Neff.
Anyone with information on their whereabouts are asked to call Summit Hill police at 570-645-7429 or call 911.


