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POLICE REPORTS

The following items were gathered from various police departments:

4:09 p.m. Sept. 30 — A 28-year-old man was cited for harassment for grabbing a 26-year-old Butler woman's face at Bonniebrook Road in Jefferson Township. Police haven't released his name.

12:15 p.m. Sept. 30 — A 16-year-old female driver from Portersville lost control of a car she was driving on Muddy Creek Road. The car hit an embankment, sending the car rolling on its side. The female minor and her male minor passenger were both uninjured.

2:10 a.m. Sept. 29 — While driving on Oneida Valley Road, Zacary T. Hesselgesser, 18, of Chicora fell asleep and drove off the road. He hit a fence and sign belonging to Marshall Offstein salvage yard before the car flipped onto its roof. Hesselgesser suffered from minor injuries, but didn't have to be transported to a hospital.

11:56 a.m. Sept. 28 — Jolene Covert violated her PFA by watching her son's soccer game in Laura Doerr Memorial Park.

6:05 a.m. Sept. 28 — Jack Lambertson, 19, of Slippery Rock allegedly got drunk, broke into an apartment that didn't belong to him and fell asleep inside. When the owner of the apartment found Lambertson, police were called and they charged him with underage drinking and public intoxication.

2:26 a.m. Sept. 28 — While turning left onto Fairground Hill Road from Whitestown Road, Taite Martin Dusheck, 18, of Butler hit a fire hydrant. Neither he nor his two passengers were injured, but the car had to be towed.

8:10 a.m. Sept. 23 — Noah K. Spang, 22, of Kittanning was allegedly speeding in a Jeep when he lost control on Herman Road, crashing into a residential structure. Spangh and the occupants of the structure sustained minor injuries.

5:25 a.m. Sept. 22 — William Fallecker, 24, of Butler nearly hit a police car when it was driving north in southbound lanes at the North Main Street exit. When police pulled him over, they arrested him on charges of being under the influence of a combination of drugs and alcohol.

2:15 a.m. Sept. 22 — Daniel B. Newton, 25, of Portersville fell asleep behind the wheel and hit a second car on I-79 in Lancaster Township.

2:20 p.m. Sept. 21 — Laurie A. Redenbach, 49, of Prospect was turning her car into Artisan Restaurant on Route 422 when Caitlyn Phelps, 21, of Corry, Erie County rear-ended Redenbach's car. Redenbach said her neck was in pain, but Phelps didn't report any injuries.

6:49 a.m. Sept. 21 — Bernard J. Swick, 57, of Gibsonia was driving on Oneida Valley Road when a deer ran onto the road. Swick hit the deer with the car, causing damage to the front right section of the car.

Sept. 20 10 p.m. to Sept. 21 10 a.m. — Police are looking for individuals who are responsible for spray painting several doors and windows on a structure at Princeton Station Road.

9:53 p.m. Aug. 23 — Russell Little, 54, of Lyndora was charged with driving under the influence, drivers required to be licensed, driving while operating privilege is suspended and reckless driving. Little was allegedly seen driving recklessly in a school parking lot on Fairground Hill Road after a football game ended. He was allegedly found passed out behind the wheel stopped in the parking lot.

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