Dave Bohman

Emmy award-winning Investigative Reporter Dave Bohman focuses on breaking major stories, uncovering government corruption and waste, holding public officials accountable and telling the kind of in-depth investigative stories that help make Newswatch 16 one of the highest-rated television news operations in the US.

Dave’s stories hold public figures accountable, expose the depths of the region’s drug crisis, and act as a watchdog of state and local government. Here are just some of his major stories:
• He exposed a local car dealer who sold a new car to a woman but did not tell her that the salesman wrecked the car and had it rebuilt.
• He showed how the federal government cut off more than a million dollars in funding to a domestic violence program in Schuylkill County just because it used an ampersand “&” instead of the word “and” in its application.
• He showed how a local lawmaker got free luxury box tickets to a Penn State football game for this family trip, and how the lawmaker billed taxpayers for gas and mileage to and from the game.
• His investigative report, “The Faces of Meth” used two decades’ worth of mug shots to show how methamphetamine addicts aged drastically from drug use.

Before making Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania his home, Dave was on the “ Discover America” program, working as a reporter, anchor, and news manager at television stations in Vermont, North Carolina, Ohio, New Mexico, and Florida.
In nearly four decades of television news, Dave has won more than 40 broadcast awards, including six Emmys, and a national award for reporting on religious issues.

Dave also does a lot of work for community organizations, and uses his time to promote healthy activities, which is why you will likely find him golfing in tournaments, or running in road races that benefit local non-profits. His hobbies include cooking and reading, and this former high school shortstop follows his hometown Boston Red Sox, Celtics, and New England Patriots.

Dave is a graduate of Syracuse University after majoring in Broadcast Journalism He now lives in Drums with his wife and two teenaged daughters.

You can reach Dave at dave.bohman@wnep.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DBohmanWNEP
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DBohmanWNEP/

Recent Articles

  • Big Bucks for Blizzard Snow Removal in Wilkes-Barre

    WILKES-BARRE — Wilkes-Barre and Scranton share their names on an airport, a hockey team, and a baseball team. but when it came to paying for snow removal during March’s blizzard, the smaller of these two cities spent about twice as much as the larger one. On Brogan Avenue in the Miners Mills neighborhood of Wilkes-Barre, the street is partially covered with autumn leaves.  Six months ago, it was covered with so much snow many were stuck in their homes for […]

  • Contractor Sentenced for Theft

    DURYEA — His victims wanted him to do jail time, but Luzerne County contractor Joe Sekelsky instead will be on probation for the next four years. Sekelsky of Duryea was the subject of a Newswatch 16 investigation last year after three homeowners claimed he took money to do work he never did. Sekelsky pleaded guilty to theft of services back in August. On Tuesday, he told a judge that health problems kept him from completing the work. In addition to […]

  • U.S. Marshals Resolve Missing Inmate Cold Case

    SCRANTON — The U.S. Marshals Office in Scranton has closed the book on one of its longest-running manhunts. This week, authorities finally learned the whereabouts of a man who was an inmate at the state prison in Dallas and fled while he helped clean up local communities in the wake Hurricane Agnes. William Van Scoten was a known safe cracker who escaped from a prison in New Jersey in the 1960s. He was doing time at the state prison in […]

  • Hazleton Real Estate Scammer Ignacio Beato Sentenced to Prison

    HAZLETON — The former real estate agent from Hazleton accused of selling homes he didn’t own to unsuspecting buyers has been sentenced to prison. A federal judge sentenced Ignacio Beato of Hazleton to four years and three months in prison for wire fraud. He was also ordered to pay $65,000 in restitution. Authorities say Beato cheated almost 20 people from the Hazleton area out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. They say he sold homes without having titles to those […]

  • Scranton Raid: Why So Many Cops?

    SCRANTON — State troopers and agents with the state attorney general’s office descended on Downtown Scranton Thursday, spending 13 hours gathering documents and computer drives in a raid of three buildings. A day later, questions remain. What exactly were they looking for? And why did they need so many cops to do it? Police say most officers were needed at the Lackawanna County Prison on North Washington Avenue. Agents were sent inside a potentially dangerous prison environment to get paperwork […]

  • Lackawanna County Commissioners Out When Raid Took Place

    WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT — Lackawanna County Commissioners Pat O’Malley and Laureen Cummings were in Luzerne County Thursday morning when we caught up with them. They clearly did not want to talk about the raid on the jail and county offices while they were out. As state troopers raided the county administrative offices in downtown Scranton, Lackawanna County Commissioners Pat O’Malley and Laureen Cummings were at a meeting of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport board in Luzerne County. The airport board canceled […]

  • Two Vehicles Crash into Home in Scranton

    SCRANTON — Two vehicles slammed into a home in Scranton Wednesday afternoon. The crash happened just after 3 p.m. along Birney Avenue. A car and an SUV hit the first floor of the house. Witnesses said the driver of the SUV went to the hospital with what appeared to be minor injuries. Her 9-year-old daughter and the driver of the car were not hurt. A building inspector said the home is still livable, but the porch is off-limits until repairs […]

  • Uncertain Future for Museum in City Hall

    SCRANTON — People behind a museum operating in Scranton fear they’ll be forced to move out of the place they’ve called home for the last decade. The group Sons of Union Veterans run the museum and lease a room in Scranton City Hall, but that lease expires in late November. Right now, they don’t have another spot to go to or a place to put their valuable items in storage. Tucked away in Scranton City Hall are hundreds of guns, […]

  • Suspected Serial Bank Robber Nabbed

    DUNMORE – State police have announced the arrest of a bank robbery suspect who may be connected to a string of bank heists in our area over the last two years. William Fischer, 45, of Ward Street in Dunmore, is charged with robbing the Peoples Security Bank and Trust branch in Gouldsboro on Wednesday. Troopers were able to use surveillance video to track the car as it headed toward Newfoundland and eventually stop it. Police say he’s a suspect in 13 […]

  • Two Charged in Woman’s Shooting Death after Drug Deal Dispute

    FALLS TOWNSHIP — Two men face homicide charges after the shooting death of a woman from Susquehanna County during an alleged drug deal. State police said Micole Gumpper, 23, of Uniondale, died from a gunshot wound during a drug deal along Route 92 in Wyoming County Sunday night. .@WNEP BREAKING PSP Tunkhannock Arrests two men charging them with homicide after alleged drug deal goes bad. pic.twitter.com/voVCQhceoo — Dave Bohman (@DBohmanWNEP) September 11, 2017 Jesse Long, 28, of Pittston, is charged […]

  • Local Woman, Family Riding out Storm in Florida

    BRADENTON, Fla. — A woman from Lackawanna County, who moved with her family to a community south of Tampa, is currently riding out Hurricane Irma “It’s very windy. It’s very rainy. The palm trees are bent. The rain is really bad,” said Jenn Sholi. And it will likely get worse for the Clarks Summit native, whose home may be in the direct path of Hurricane Irma. The eye of the storm is expected to pass her neighborhood near Bradenton, Florida […]

  • Concern in the Poconos as Former Resort Burns Again

    STROUD TOWNSHIP — Charred wood covers the former Penn Hills Resort property the day after a fire destroyed its main building. “One of our concerns was it was going to burn into the woods,” said Schott Reickart. Scott Reickart’s son-in-law owns land that borders the old resort and Reickart witnessed Monday’s fire, another fire in 2016, and a fire set by someone in 2014. When a group of New York investors bought Penn Hills two years ago, they promised to […]