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9:13 p.m. Monday — Robert W. Budmark, 45, of Lyndora was arrested for drunken driving and resisting arrest at the parking lot of the Lyndora Hotel. Police found him after they got a call for a reckless driver on Kohler Avenue in a vehicle traveling with two broken rear wheels.

Budmark became “belligerent” and resisted officers who tried to place him in a police car after his arrest, according to a police report. His alleged belligerence continued at Butler Memorial Hospital where he was taken for a blood draw. He also is accused of threatening an officer.

In addition to driving under the influence and resisting arrest, he was arraigned on charges of terroristic threats, disorderly conduct, driving an unregistered vehicle, driving a vehicle without insurance, failing to keep right, failing to yield the right of way and careless driving. He was placed in the Butler County Prison on $10,000 bond following arraignment.

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6:22 p.m. Friday — No one was injured when a car driven by Howard Foltz, 37, of Canonsburg, Washington County, struck a sport utility vehicle at Mahood and Jamisonville roads in Center Township. Brandi L. Addison, 34, of New Cumberland, W.Va., was the other driver.

1:59 p.m. Friday — A 9 mm pistol was reported stolen from a car at a home on the 400 block of Saxonburg Road in Jefferson Township. The owner told police the gun was taken within the past two weeks. The pistol is a desert tan, Sig Sauer M17 and it contained an empty magazine.

May 11 — Police charged an Armstrong County man with being more than 2½ times the state’s legal limit for alcohol and drugs stemming from a March traffic stop in Clearfield Township. The defendant, Robert D. Ganley, 58, of Ford City, was pulled over around 10:45 p.m. March 25 on Route 422.

Toxicology results following a blood test showed his blood-alcohol level was 0.21 percent, according to court documents. In Pennsylvania, a level of 0.08 percent is considered intoxicated. Ganley also had the following prescription drugs in his system: quetiapine, amitriptyline, nortriptyline and gabapentin.

He is charged with driving under the influence of a combination of alcohol and drugs, DUI, disregarding traffic lanes and careless driving.

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