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Cops: Burglar made himself at homeCOALDALE — Police say a Pennsylvania burglary suspect made himself right at home, using the bathroom and watching TV while the woman who lived there screamed at him to leave.Online court records show 45-year-old Scott F. Smith remains jailed on burglary and defiant trespassing charges in the March 14 incident.Police in Coaldale say the woman was watching TV and waiting for a neighbor to bring her a newspaper when Smith walked into the home uninvited. Smith walked past her, used the bathroom, then went into a bedroom for long enough that she had time to call police.When he emerged, he sat down in her recliner and began watching TV until police arrived to remove him.

Ex-deputy, ex-postal worker indictedHARRISBURG — A former deputy sheriff, former U.S. postal worker and two others have been indicted in what federal prosecutors say was a $500,000 drug-trafficking operation that shipped about 200 pounds of marijuana through the mail between northern California and York County.The indictment says the four residents of Oroville, Calif., conspired to make and distribute marijuana and to launder drug proceeds between September 2014 and Jan. 7 of this year.

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