Police Reports
These items have been collected from various police departments.
3:07 p.m. Tuesday — Heather A. Wager, 33, of Penn Township was arrested after allegedly shoplifting a bottle of soft drink and a bottle of perfume from the Kmart store at Pullman Square. Wagner ran out of the store but soon was found hiding in the brush off CDC Drive.The stolen property was valued at $30.Wagner, who has four prior convictions for shoplifting, was arraigned on a felony count of retail theft and placed in the Butler County Prison on $2,500 bail.Retail theft, normally a misdemeanor, is upgraded to a third-degree felony when a defendant has at least two prior convictions for the same crime.
7:23 p.m. Tuesday — Marcus Register Jr., 42, of Grove City is accused of swiping two large rolls of hamburger from the Aldi's store and a mask from the Spirit of Halloween store next door, both in Butler Commons. He allegedly hid the items in a back pack.Register is charged with retail theft, receiving stolen property and possessing an instrument of crime.2:06 p.m. Tuesday — A car driven by Jan Nieto, 56, of Butler rear-ended another car on the ramp from Route 8 south to Route 422 west. Connie Severino, 55, of Butler was the other driver.
Wednesday — Police reported minor injuries in a two-car crash that happened when a vehicle driven Ruth Jaskol, 91, of Grove City rear-ended a truck on East Main Street at Madison Avenue. Gordon McClearn, 61, no address given, was driving the truck. Police provided no other information about the accident.Oct. 15 — A black, hard plastic tool box with an unknown amount of tools was reported stolen from the rear porch of a home in the 100 block of Grant Street.
Oct. 17 — Eight months after James E. Speicher Jr., 33, reported that his sport utility vehicle was stolen from his home on Webb Road in Clay Township, police charged him with insurance fraud.Speicher on Feb. 7 notified police that his 1994 Jeep Wrangler was missing and believed stolen. Investigators listed the vehicle as stolen in the FBI's National Crime Information Center database.Investigators said Speicher filed a claim with his insurance carrier, reporting vehicle was stolen.Police later found the Jeep, burned and stuck in a pond in woods behind the West Sunbury American Legion. Interviewed after the finding, Speicher admitted the vehicle was not stolen, according to court documents.He denied burning the Jeep but claimed he knew who did, and “would take care of that himself,” documents said. Police said he would not provide them with the name of the purported suspect.In addition to insurance fraud, a felony, Speicher is charged with false reports to police, a misdemeanor.
