Freedom Township Altercation Lands Man in Jail

A Gallitzin man was jailed after an altercation with Freedom Township police resulted in one officer getting kicked.

According to Freedom Township police, an officer was on patrol when he spotted a vehicle parked near the intersection of Dunnings Highway and Municipal Street and two men standing outside the car.

When the officer stopped to question the men, he discovered they were both “extremely intoxicated.” When the officer requested the men to sit in the back of his cruiser to get them off the roadway, one man complied but the other, identified as Devin McMullen, 24, began walking...