By John Luciew
jluciew@pennlive.com
It took a while for police in northeastern Pennsylvania to catch up with a 36-year-old woman accused of having sex with a then-15-year-old boy up to six times a day.
But as the Citizens Voice reports, Joleen Gambardella, 36, who had fled the area, has now been arrested and charged by Pa. state police at Hazleton.
According to the newspaper, the case dates to January 2016 when a boy told police Gambardella and he started having sex when he was 15 years old and he enjoyed it.
They continued to have sex daily - at least six times a day, the boy told police according to the newspaper report.
All the while, Gambardella allegedly supplied the teen with prescription pills like Xanax, Percocet, Adderall - and then eventually introduced the teen to heroin, the Citizen Voice writes, quoting court papers.
In 2015, she allegedly posted nude photos of the boy online and advertised him for sexual hookups with strangers, according to the arrest papers quoted by the Citizens Voice.
The goal was to get money to buy more heroin, the boy told police, but he could not go through with sex acts with men, the newspaper wrote.
State police at Hazleton filed an arrest warrant against Gambardella in May 2016, announcing she had fled the area, the Citizens Voice writes.
It was not immediately clear how or when she was taken into custody last week.
She was arraigned Friday on charges of endangering the welfare of a child, promoting prostitution, corruption of minors and criminal use of a communication facility.
At last report, Gambardella was jailed in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in lieu of $100,000 cash bail.
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jluciew@pennlive.com
It took a while for police in northeastern Pennsylvania to catch up with a 36-year-old woman accused of having sex with a then-15-year-old boy up to six times a day.
But as the Citizens Voice reports, Joleen Gambardella, 36, who had fled the area, has now been arrested and charged by Pa. state police at Hazleton.
According to the newspaper, the case dates to January 2016 when a boy told police Gambardella and he started having sex when he was 15 years old and he enjoyed it.
They continued to have sex daily - at least six times a day, the boy told police according to the newspaper report.
All the while, Gambardella allegedly supplied the teen with prescription pills like Xanax, Percocet, Adderall - and then eventually introduced the teen to heroin, the Citizen Voice writes, quoting court papers.
In 2015, she allegedly posted nude photos of the boy online and advertised him for sexual hookups with strangers, according to the arrest papers quoted by the Citizens Voice.
The goal was to get money to buy more heroin, the boy told police, but he could not go through with sex acts with men, the newspaper wrote.
State police at Hazleton filed an arrest warrant against Gambardella in May 2016, announcing she had fled the area, the Citizens Voice writes.
It was not immediately clear how or when she was taken into custody last week.
She was arraigned Friday on charges of endangering the welfare of a child, promoting prostitution, corruption of minors and criminal use of a communication facility.
At last report, Gambardella was jailed in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in lieu of $100,000 cash bail.
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