radioNOVO News for Williamsport: August 6, 2026

RNN WILLIAMSPORT 08/06/26          A WILLIAMSPORT TEENAGER WAS SENTENCED TUESDAY TO TIME SERVED AND THREE YEARS PROBATION FOR HIS ROLE IN A MARCH 2024 RETALIATORY SHOOTING.  18-YEAR-OLD TYKIR JIHAD SMITH PLEADED GUILTY TO MISDEMEANOR CHARGES OF RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT AND CRIMINAL MISCHIEF.           AUTHORITIES SAY SMITH WAS WITH A GROUP THAT FIRED SHOTS INTO A LOYALSOCK TOWNSHIP APARTMENT IN RETALIATION FOR A FATAL SHOOTING AT A LOCAL RESTAURANT THE NIGHT BEFORE. NO ONE WAS INJURED IN THE INCIDENT. SMITH SERVED 336 DAYS IN THE LYCOMING COUNTY PRISON PRIOR TO SENTENCING.          ELEVEN MEN........... FIVE OF WHOM HAIL FROM LYCOMING OR CLINTON COUNTIES.......... SURRENDERED YESTERDAY TO FACE CHARGES IN CONNECTION WITH A HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION INVESTIGATION AT A FORMER LOYALSOCK TOWNSHIP MASSAGE PARLOR.          STATE POLICE SAY THE MEN WERE CHARGED WITH PATRONIZING A VICTIM OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND PATRONIZING PROSTITUTES AT THE FORMER GREEN SPA AND MASSAGE. THE CHARGES STEM FROM A SIX-MONTH INVESTIGATION INTO THE BUSINESS, WHICH WAS RAIDED AND SHUT DOWN BY LAW ENFORCEMENT IN JUNE.           ALL ELEVEN DEFENDANTS WERE RELEASED ON 50-THOUSAND DOLLARS BAIL EACH AS THEY AWAIT THEIR PRELIMINARY HEARINGS.