Butler woman charged with hitting officer with car
BUTLER TWP — Police on Monday charged a 31-year-old Butler woman with hitting a township officer with a car during an apparent getaway last week at a shopping center on New Castle Road.
Shayna M. McDowell faces felony and other charges in the incident shortly after 6:30 p.m. May 16 at Point Plaza.
State police on Friday arrested McDowell, who was already wanted on unrelated felony and misdemeanor drug warrants.
And her list of cases is expected to mount, police said, as vice officers found more than 70 stamp bags of suspected heroin stuffed in her bra when they nabbed her in Summit Township.
She is being held in the Butler County Prison on $50,000 bail on charges related to the previously issued warrants.
In the latest case, Butler Township police said, the defendant is accused of hitting Patrolman Rachel Dovidio with her car on the evening of election day.
Dovidio was not hurt.
A full story will appear in the Tuesday edition of the Butler Eagle.
