Lawsuit Filed in Restaurant Groping Case
By Ed Lewis (Times Leader) WILKES-BARRE — A Hazle Township former restaurant owner sentenced to three years probation for groping a teenage female employee is the subject of a civil lawsuit filed in Luzerne County Court by the girl. Harry Werkeiser, 69, of state Route 940, Harleigh, hired a then 17-year-old girl to be a…