WILLIAMSPORT — Four witnesses spoke Monday in a trial pitting a West Cameron Township woman against two former Shamokin police officers — Mark Costa and William Miner — whom she alleges engaged in excessive force and battery against her in the lobby of the city police department in 2004.
The trial, expected to last at least two days, is ongoing at the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Lycoming County before U.S. Magistrate Judge William I. Arbuckle, of the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
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