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POLICE REPORTS

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Butler Police

Monday — Police found a suspected crack pipe in Jeffrey D. McMillen’s shoe after they picked him up on a warrant at a home in the 200 block of West North Street. McMillen, 23, of Middlesex Township is charged with misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.

The case marked the second time in two months that city police charged McMillen with having drug paraphernalia. He was arraigned Dec. 22 on the previous charge and released on his own recognizance, court records showed. His preliminary hearing in the earlier case is still pending.

Friday — Julie Ann Steffy, 39, of Butler was caught allegedly under the influence and with a crack pipe and prescription medication at the Cliffside Apartments on South McKean Street.

A call for two intoxicated women at the apartment complex, where Steffy is not a tenant, sent officers there. The suspect appeared impaired, according to court documents, and admitted that she had been drinking alcohol.

Steffy was searched and found with drug contraband including a prescription bottle with no label on it. The bottle contained prescription stimulant pills. She is charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia, defiant trespass and public drunkenness.

Butler Twp Police

Tuesday — Bryan M. Webb, 30, of Butler was charged in connection with the Jan. 7 break-in of a home on Cottage Avenue. Webb is charged with burglary, trespass, theft, loitering and prowling at night, and criminal mischief.

Tuesday — Police charged Anna L. Frobe, 28, of Lyndora with bilking the buyer of a gift card Feb. 1 at Highfield Hall. She allegedly sold the card for $150. It turned out, police said, that the card had no value and had not been activated at the store.

Frobe is charged with misdemeanor theft by deception.

5:59 p.m. Monday — Carrie Lyn Meier, 32, of Butler is accused of taking a 2006 Chevrolet Monte Carlo without the owner’s permission. She is charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle.

4:16 p.m. Monday — Kimberly K. Mosler, 25, of Valencia was caught allegedly shoplifting $489 in merchandise from the Butler Commons’ Walmart. She is charged with misdemeanor retail theft.

4:16 p.m. Monday — Vehicles driven by Eric T. Dobson, 38, and Tammy Weiland, 43, both of Butler collided at Homewood Drive and North Main Street. Dobson was cited for a stop sign violation.

Monday — Police charged Charles G. Wright, 51, of Franklin Township with drunken driving after officers found him, and his parked pickup truck, outside a store at the Butler Commons shopping plaza.

Wright, who smelled of alcohol, admitted that he had hidden there after work, court documents said. A blood test later showed his blood-alcohol level was 0.19 percent, or more than double the state’s .08 percent legal limit.

In addition to driving under the influence, Wright is charged with driving with an open container of alcohol.

1:40 a.m. Sunday — Alcohol apparently got the best of three young people found in a vehicle pulled off to the side of Greenwood Drive.

Abby N. Christy, 21, of Slippery Rock, one of the passengers, was unresponsive and “highly intoxicated” and passed out in back of the vehicle, according to a police report. She was taken to Butler Memorial Hospital for overconsumption of alcohol.

The other passenger, Dustin J. Harvey, 23, of Cabot, was also intoxicated and “acting in a disruptive, disorderly manner,” the report said. He allegedly refused to comply with officers and was arrested.

Police cited both Christy and Harvey for public drunkenness. Harvey also was cited for the disorderly conduct.

The driver, a 21-year-old Butler man who police did not identify, is being investigated for driving under the influence.

3:37 p.m. Friday — Both drivers were charged in a two-vehicle wreck on Route 68 near Delwood Road. Mandy D. McCall was cited for driving too fast for conditions. Steven G. Ramsey, 29, of Wampum, Lawrence County, was cited for driving with a suspended license.

BC3 Police

1:08 p.m. Monday — Jake M. Euler, 21, of Pittsburgh was caught with suspected marijuana and other drug contraband after Butler County Community College police found his illegally parked car in the north lot on College Drive.

Police initially spotted what looked like a burned marijuana joint and marijuana flakes on the driver’s seat, according to court documents. A later consent search turned up a baggie and a plastic bottle containing suspected marijuana.

Euler is charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

State Police, Butler

Monday — Police filed a traffic ticket against the driver of a school bus involved in a crash earlier this month in Clearfield Township that injured six students.

Mary J. Craig, 62, of Butler was turning left from South Clearfield Road onto Old Route 422 east shortly after 9 a.m. Feb. 6 when her bus sideswiped a car that was coming to a stop at the intersection.

The bus was carrying 36 students between 6 and 12 years old. The injured children, three boys and three girls, suffered only minor injuries. Neither Craig nor the other driver, Edward P. Augustine, 52, of Fenelton, was hurt.

Police cited Craig for disregarding traffic lanes.

Feb. 6 — An unknown burglar stole about $360 and nine inspection stickers after breaking into Hay’s Service Center on Bonniebrook Road in Summit Township. A Genisys car computer scanner also was taken in the burglary that happened between 9:15 p.m. Feb. 5 and 5 a.m. Feb. 6.

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