A Butler man with 31 convictions for public drunkenness faces hearings in three more cases for the same charge stemming from separate incidents, all in less than a day's time.

Anthony D. Riegel, 48, is no stranger to Butler police. Officers since 2013 have cited him two dozen times for being intoxicated in public places.

Most recently, police said they found him about 9 a.m. April 17 badly impaired in brush amid scattered empty cans of beer at the Butler Athletic Field on East Cunningham Street near Connoquenessing Creek.

Several fishermen and their families, out for the second day of trout season, came upon Riegel, who was passed out, and notified authorities.

He was so inebriated that he could not tell police how he ended up in the bushes with two 12-pack cases of beer with him, according to court documents.

A day earlier, police noted, they had warned Riegel not to return to the athletic filed after finding him there allegedly intoxicated.

He was taken to the police station and placed in the holding cell until sober. Police charged him with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, as well as summary charges of public drunkenness and littering.

A preliminary hearing is set for May 9.

On the same day police filed the criminal case, they issued Riegel two citations for being drunk several hours apart April 16.

Officers at 1 p.m. that day found him impaired at the Butler Athletic Field.

Seven hours later, police came upon Riegel again in the parking lot at a convenience store on South Main Street, his ticket said.

Those two summary cases are still pending.

Citations for being a public drunk are not new to Riegel, according to court records. Last year, he pleaded guilty to eight cases in Butler County.

In 2014, he was convicted six more times for public intoxication; in 2013, seven times; and in 2012, once, all in Butler County.

His record in Allegheny County shows nine additional convictions for public drunkenness between 1999 and 2009.