SUNBURY - Northumberland County Judge William H. Wiest reportedly suffered an infection Monday morning at the county courthouse that made him very weak and required him to be transported by ambulance to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.
The veteran judge, who fell ill shortly after 10 a.m., was escorted in a wheelchair from the second floor in an elevator to the sheriff's office on the first floor. He was then taken through a side exit in the sheriff's office to an awaiting ambulance, which transported him to Geisinger.
A nursing supervisor at Geisinger reported Wiest was still undergoing medical treatment at the facility at 8 p.m. Monday.
All of Wiest's court cases scheduled for Monday were either reassigned to county President Judge Robert B. Sacavage or continued.
The judge is expected to miss at least one day of work from his illness.