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Monday — Police charged a new employee with stealing money from the cash register at Pizza Joes on North Main Street.

The suspect, Justin R. Manny, 36, of Butler is accused of taking $201 “on multiple occasions,” court documents. A store official reported the theft Aug. 14.

Police said they reviewed store surveillance video that showed the defendant taking the money out of the cash register and placing it in his pants pocket. Manny is charged with a first-degree misdemeanor count of theft.

Monday — A Connoquenessing Township man was charged with misdemeanor assault nearly two weeks after an altercation with his daughter’s ex-boyfriend left him with a bleeding head wound.

Richard M. Kroll, 59, told police that he had gone to his daughter’s home on North Sixth Avenue about 9:45 a.m. Aug. 16 to remove Marc A. Pippens, who apparently had been living there, too. Kroll had taken a wooden baseball bat with him with for protection, according to court documents.

Kroll set the bat down when he got into the house. He and Pippens were the only ones there. They eventually tussled during which the suspect allegedly punched Kroll in the face, documents said.

The older man admitted “he may have struck Pippens in the facial area,” documents said. The younger man, who had swelling to his forehead, told police that Kroll struck him with the bat.

But Kroll suffered worse injuries. He was taken to Butler Memorial Hospital with bleeding cuts on the head.

Police that day arrested Pippens on a charge of felony assault. Kroll is charged with simple assault.

Monday — Police charged an Armstrong County man with using a Butler man’s bank card to make unauthorized withdrawals totaling $462 from an automated teller machine at the A-Plus store on West Jefferson Street.

Store surveillance video helped police identify Thomas C. Rob Jr., 38, of Foxburg, who is accused of using the card 10 times earlier this month, according to court documents. He is charged with access device fraud.

8:36 a.m. Saturday — Cindy L. Tristani, 61, of Butler was caught allegedly shoplifting a box of nasal spray, valued at $3.25, at the Dollar General on North Main Street.

Tristani apologized to police and told them “she believed she would be a dollar short so this is why she took the item,” according to court documents.

The defendant, who has one prior shoplifting conviction, is charged with misdemeanor retail theft.

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6:51 p.m. Tuesday — Jennifer L. Schenck, 32, of Butler was caught allegedly shoplifting $167.89 in merchandise at the Butler Commons’ Walmart. She is charged with misdemeanor retail theft.

Aug. 23 — Jessica J. Davis, 31, of Harrisville was charged with having drugs and other contraband in connection with a call for a woman passed out in a vehicle July 29 in back of the Greater Butler Mart on Route 8 south.

Davis is charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.

Aug. 23 — Police cited Katherine E. Wilczynski, 68, in connection with a dispute between neighbors last month in Lyndora. She is accused of pushing a gate onto the victim, who suffered a cut foot in the altercation.

Wilczynski is charged with harassment.

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Friday — Julian G. McFadden, 20, was arraigned on charges he had drug contraband earlier this month when police arrested him on a warrant at his Slippery Rock Township home.

Police on Aug. 13 went to the home on Etna Road and served McFadden the warrant for parole violations. While arresting the defendant, officers found him with a makeshift marijuana pipe. He is charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Aug. 23 — Police charged a Westmoreland County woman with pointing a handgun at another motorist as the two were traveling on Interstate 79 last month in Muddy Creek Township.

Deanna Cupka, 54, of Lower Burrell and the other driver, a woman, were both northbound about 3:35 p.m. July 14 when Cupka allegedly pulled next to the victim in the left lane and pointed the gun at her.

Cupka is charged with simple assault, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.

Aug. 23 — Aeric B. Harris Jr., 22, of Ellwood City was charged with drunken driving stemming from a July hit-and run wreck in Slippery Rock Township. Police said he crashed his car into another car about 12:10 a.m. July 15 on New Castle Road just east of Conroy Lane, and fled.

Police later found the suspect’s car on New Castle Road near Stoughton Road. The car was missing its rear bumper and had “damage all over,” police said.

Harris, who had a bleeding arm injury, was unconscious in a grassy area along the road. He was taken to Grove City Medical Center for treatment. Police spoke to him in the emergency room.

“The defendant related, ‘I was drunk,’ according to court documents, “and had ‘smoked weed’ prior to the crash.” He also acknowledged that the marijuana and other contraband in the car was his, police said. He also admitted he had vodka in a container that was in the center console.

Results of a blood test subsequently showed he had marijuana in his system and his blood-alcohol level was 0.148 percent. A level of 0.08 percent is considered intoxicated under state law.

He is charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance, driving under the influence of a combination of alcohol and drugs, possession of a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, and hit-and-run.

Additionally, he is charged with driving with a suspended license, driving without a license, driving an unregistered vehicle, driving without insurance, driving without valid inspection driving with an open container of alcohol, and failing to stop and give information after an accident.

Aug. 23 — A Clarion County man was charged with being more than 2½ times the legal limit for alcohol following a one-vehicle crash that left him injured earlier this month in Parker Township.

Police said they found Ronald E. Roudebush, 52, of Rimersburg in his wrecked car about 5:10 a.m. Aug. 9 in front of a home on the 1800 block of Kittanning Pike.