POLICE REPORTS
These items have been collected from various police departments.
8:05 p.m. Friday - Joseph Buccini, 64, owner of P.J. Billiards, 154½ N. Main St. was cited for allowing a 15-year-old girl in his pool hall. Youths under 18 are not permitted in hall without a parent or guardian.
Monday - William Durci said someone between Aug. 2 and Monday stole two chain saws valued at $700 from his Westminster Road home in Clinton Township.7:35 p.m. Sunday - Michael Speicher, 25, of 102 Elmwood Lane was arrested on a warrant at his Clay Township home. But when troopers picked up Speicher on the warrant for reckless endangerment and cruelty to animals, they allegedly found him with suspected drug paraphernalia.Speicher is in the Butler County Prison in lieu of $3,000 bond stemming from the warrant and a new charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.Sunday - Dennis Brannen reported a blue, Kawasaki all-terrain vehicle was taken between 10 p.m. Saturday and 4:30 p.m. Sunday from his Hufnagel Road home in Muddy Creek Township.3:30 p.m. Saturday - A motorcycle driven Michael Cousins, no age given, of Evans City struck the rear of a car driven by Molly Thomas, no age given, of Renfrew on Route 68 in Connoquenessing Township. Cousins, who was wearing a helmet, suffered minor injuries.
Saturday - Two dogs died of suspected poisoning while in the fenced yard at the Water Street home of Richard Titus in East Brady, Clarion County.Titus told police that his dogs - a 4-year-old Labrador retriever and a 1-year-old mixed breed - were poisoned between 5 and 10:30 p.m. Anyone with information in the case is asked to call the barracks at 724-226-1710.
1:14 p.m. Monday - Fifteen suspected illegal aliens from Mexico were found in a vehicle stopped on Interstate 80 in Wolf Creek Township, Mercer County. Police have detained the suspects pending action by federal immigration officials.Police over the weekend stopped 50 other suspected illegal aliens in four separate traffic stops on I-80 in Mercer County. Four of those remain in the Lawrence County Jail while the others were released upon the direction of immigration authorities.
