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POLICE REPORTS

INSIDE TUESDAY

These items have been collected from various police departments.

2 a.m. Sunday — John Glessner, 28, of Bowie, Md., was arrested for allegedly groping a woman's buttocks at Frisco's lounge in the Days Inn on Route 8. Glessner was arraigned on charges of indecent assault and disorderly conduct, and placed in the Butler County Prison in lieu of $5,000 bond.

3 p.m. Saturday — Mary Ann DeMarco, 50, of Zelienople reported that someone broke the taillight of her vehicle overnight while it was parked at her house.

1:39 p.m. Saturday — Vehicles driven by Maureen Marie Mitro, 39, of Harmony and Maureen Grace Shumsky, 70, of Freedom, Beaver County, collided at South Clay Street and Route 68.

Saturday — Police responding to a vehicle break-in recovered 14 compact discs and a flashlight near the front entrance to Maple Court apartments on South High Street.

11:10 a.m. Saturday — Dale and Susan Krysinski reported that a vehicle at their Bluff Street house was broken into and CDs and a change purse were taken. Police later recovered all but one CD.

12:50 p.m. Dec. 3 — Cindy Schnarviler reported that a holiday lighted polar bear, valued at $80, was taken from the front porch of her South High Street home.

2:05 a.m. Nov. 27 — A vehicle driven by Kimberly Dambach, 48, of Zelienople sheared off a utility pole along East Grandview Avenue. The road was closed for five hours as cleanup crews had to deal with downed electrical lines. Dambach told police the crash occurred when she possibly fell asleep at the wheel.

5:15 p.m. Monday — A sport utility vehicle driven by a 16-year-old Portersville woman, who police did not identify, and a truck driven by James Lighty, no age given, of Emlenton collided at Route 108 and West Park Road in Worth Township. The girl, who was wearing a seat belt, suffered minor injuries.

3:44 p.m. Monday — Cars driven by Karen Yost, 45, and Marilyn Mansfield, 73, both of Renfrew collided on Valencia Road in Forward Township.

3:36 p.m. Monday — A 15-year-old Slippery Rock boy was arrested for allegedly breaking into the Shawnee Lane apartment of a 33-year-old woman in Slippery Rock Township.

Police said the boy broke into the apartment through a basement door and was caught in the bedroom. The tenant, who police did not identify, told officers she suspected someone had been breaking into her apartment for the past two weeks.

She said she became suspicious of previous break-ins because some of her personal items had turned up missing and she had returned home to find her bed disheveled. She did not know the boy who was arrested Monday, police said.

Police charged with boy with burglary, theft, trespass and criminal mischief. He was later turned over to juvenile court authorities. A detention hearing was not immediately scheduled.

1:35 p.m. Dec. 5 — A sport utility vehicle driven by Nathan Slee, 20, of Rimersburg skidded on ice and collided with a pickup truck on Frair Point Road in Madison Township, Clarion County. Byron Myers, 34, of Rimersburg was driving the pickup.

2:45 a.m. Monday — Gregory Larko Jr., 27, of Brackenridge, Allegheny County, was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence on Route 28 in South Buffalo Township, Armstrong County.

10:51 a.m. Sunday — A car driven by Christopher Roher, 32, and a pickup truck driven by Wayne Hohmann, 24, both of Volant, collided on Black Run Road in Liberty Township, Mercer County. Roher, who was wearing a seat belt, suffered minor injuries.

1:45 a.m. Saturday — Douglas Foringer, 27, of Slippery Rock was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence on Route 258 near Black Run Road in Liberty Township, Mercer County. In addition to DUI, he faces charges of careless driving and failing to drive within his lane of traffic.

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