These items have been collected from various police departments.

[naviga:h3]Butler Police[/naviga:h3]

10:07 p.m. Friday — Donald J. Dobson, 41, of Summit Township was found with suspected crack cocaine following a traffic stop on Center Avenue near South Cliff Street.

Police said Dobson was pulled over driving a sport utility vehicle that matched one noticed at the scene of a drug activity call on the 300 block of Virginia Avenue. A search, according to court documents, turned up a folded-up piece of paper with suspected crack in his underwear.

Dobson is charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia, and driving with a suspended license.

12:57 a.m. March 29 — A man and woman were caught with suspected drugs after their car was stopped for a faulty brake light on North Washington Street near West North Street.

Police said when they got to the car they noticed two pills on top of the center console, according to court documents. The pills were subsequently identified as carisoprodol, a muscle relaxant.

Neither the driver, Amy M. Scheibel, 39, of Butler, nor passenger, Andrew J. McCue, 32, of Butler, claimed ownership of the pills. But when police asked Scheibel to empty her pockets, they allegedly found her with three pills of the same medication, for which she did not have a prescription

A pat down search of McCue, police said, turned up 14 stamp bags and several empty bags of suspected heroin, a crack pipe and metal spoons, documents.

McCue is charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia. Scheibel is charged with possession of a controlled substance and a lighting violation.

[naviga:h3]Butler Twp Police[/naviga:h3]

2:13 a.m. Sunday — Lauren A. Maher, 23, of Butler Township was arrested for being more than double the state’s legal limit for alcohol when her car crashed in a ditch at North Boundary Street and South Duffy Road.

Police said Maher told them that she was driving from a bar where she had two beers, according to court documents. A subsequent inventory search of her car turned up an open beer bottle and a marijuana pipe.

The defendant failed field sobriety tests and was taken to Butler Memorial Hospital for a blood test, which showed her blood-alcohol level was 0.167 percent. In Pennsylvania, a level of 0.08 percent is considered intoxicated.

In addition to DUI, Maher is charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and careless driving.

[naviga:h3]State Police, Butler[/naviga:h3]

Monday — Justin P. Warner, 35, of Parker was charged with drugged driving stemming from a February crash in Donegal Township. Police said he wrecked his car about 4:20 p.m. Feb. 22 in a yard on Route 68.

Warner admitted he was driving too fast and using his phone, according to court documents. He also admitted that he had taken Suboxone before the crash.

Police said he failed field sobriety tests, and a drug recognition expert’s evaluation suspected he was on narcotics. He was taken to Butler Memorial Hospital for a blood test.

Toxicology reports, documents said, indicated Warner had several drugs in his system, some of which included gabapentin, amphetamine, methamphetamine and buprenorphine.

In addition to driving under the influence of a controlled substance, he is charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, driving with a suspended license-DUI related, failing to keep right, disregarding traffic lanes, driving at an unsafe speed, texting while driving and reckless driving.

Police noted in their criminal complaint that Warner has three prior DUI arrests since 2005.

Monday — Police charged Kaitlyn M. Stroup, 27, of Chicora in a February shoplifting incident at a Clearview Mall store in Center Township. She is accused of leaving Boscov’s with a bag containing $245 in merchandise that she did not pay for, court documents said,

An employee caught up with and tried to stop Stroup, but she pulled away. She dropped the bag and took off with a man who police have identified.

Stroup is charged with a misdemeanor count of retail theft.

March 29 — Shawn P. Nolan, 45, of Butler was charged with DUI stemming from a traffic stop in Brady Township. Police said he was stopped about 12:45 a.m. March 13 after his pickup truck crossed the white fog line three times and the center line once.

Field sobriety tests indicated he was impaired, according to court documents, and he was taken to Butler Memorial Hospital for a blood test, which showed his blood-alcohol level was 0.162 percent. A level of 0.08 percent is considered intoxicated under state law.

Nolan is charged with DUI, disregarding traffic lanes and careless driving.

10:56 p.m. March 26 — Donna J. Ifft, 48, of Clay Township was arrested for drunken driving after a rollover crash on Route 308 in Cherry Township.

Police said when they got to the scene they found a badly damaged sport utility vehicle on its wheels but Ifft was gone. They later learned that she was driven home, according to court documents.

A witness told police that he came upon the wreck and spoke to the defendant, who was still in her vehicle. She asked him not to call police “because she would get a DUI,” documents said. When she got out of her vehicle, the witness recounted, she stumbled and fell down an embankment.

Police about 11:30 p.m. spoke to Ifft at her home and she admitted crashing the SUV after swerving to avoid a deer. Troopers suspected she was impaired but she refused a blood test.

She is charged with DUI, failing to immediately notify police of an accident, abandoning a vehicle on a road, disregarding traffic lanes, driving at an unsafe speed and careless driving.

[naviga:h3]State Police, Mercer[/naviga:h3]

Tuesday — A 17-year-old resident at George Junior Republic was charged with assaulting a staff member March 3 at the juvenile detention facility in Pine Township. The boy, from Lancaster, Pa., is charged in Mercer County juvenile court with felony assault.

Police provided no other information about the investigation.