These items have been collected from various police departments.

Sunday — Franklin Hartzell, 53, of Lyndora was arrested for allegedly growing marijuana at his home.Authorities served a search warrant at the Bessemer Avenue home of Hartzell, already on probation for a 2004 drug conviction, and found a large marijuana plant, according to the task force.Officers also found other cultivating and packaging materials as well as suspected marijuana already packaged. Also seized was a digital scale and $400 in currency.District Judge Sue Haggerty arraigned Hartzell on charges of possession with intent to deliver marijuana, manufacture of a controlled substance, and possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.Hartzell is being held in the Butler County Prison on $20,000 bond as well as a probation violation.

Sunday — A 1992 Chevrolet Lumina, black with red pin stripes, was stolen between midnight and 7:45 a.m. on Bonniebrook Road in Summit Township.Frank Jupin Jr. of Coraopolis, Allegheny County, owns the car, which bears the Pennsylvania license plate ERG3085.Police did not say if the unknown thief could be the same person who tried to steal a vehicle overnight at the Herman Road home of Wayne Geibel inSummit Township.Sunday — An unknown burglar between July 8 and Sunday broke into a Dittmer Road home in Summit Township. Police did not disclose if any property was taken.3:45 p.m. Saturday — Two suspected purse-snatchers were arrested outside the Clearvlew Mall in Center Township.Joe Moore, 21, of Butler allegedly took the purse from Karen Graham of Butler as she was by her vehicle in the Giant Eagle parking lot. Dave Courson, 23, of Butler allegedly drove the getaway car. Police said both men face theft charges.3 p.m. Saturday — Two of three boys were captured after escaping from Summit Academy on Herman Road in Summit Township. Athird boy was still at large as of Sunday.2:30 a.m. Saturday — Police investigated a hit-and-run crash that occurred when a car struck a utility pole and tree along Route 528, one mile north of Wahl Road in Forward Township.The driver of the car, owned by Jeremiah Harrold of Evans City, fled the scene before officers arrived.Sunday — Mary Ortz of Cabot told police someone between 6 and 6:30 p.m. stole her purse from her car parked in the area of the Butler-Freeport Community Trails on Marwood Road in Winfield Township.Saturday — Shawn Wagner reported that a children's 20-inch, Huffy bicycle was stolen Friday or Saturday from the back porch of a Meadowbrook Lane home in Center Township.10:48 p.m. Friday — Joshua McWilliams, 24, of Butler was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence after his car collided with a mini-van on Route 68 in Donegal Township.Police said five people, including a young child, were injured in the crash.McWilliams was westbound on Route 68 when he lost control of his car, police said, and traveled into the opposite lane, colliding with the eastbound van driven by Richard Taylor Jr., 63, of Kearney, N.J.Aubrey Hepp, 33, of Butler, a passenger in the car, was flown by medical helicopter with moderate injuries to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.Treated at ACMHHospital in Kittanning for minor to moderate injuries were Taylor and three passengers in the van:Carol Taylor, 63, of Kearney; Wendy Taylor, 35, of Karns City; and a 6-year-old Karns City boy, who police did not identify.Police said that all occupants in the vehicles were wearing seat belts; both vehicles sustained major damage.In addition to DUI, McWilliams faces charges of accidents involving injury while not properly licensed as well as numerous traffic offenses.1:27 p.m. Friday — Asport utility vehicle driven by William Welter Jr., 77, of Butler and a pickup truck driven by Jessie Roudebush, 20, of Easy Brady, Clarion County, collided at Kittanning Pike and Trimbur Road in Fairview Township.Police said both drivers and a passenger in the SUV, Ethelreda Welter, 78, of Butler, suffered unknown injuries; all were wearing seat belts.Friday — Police are investigating a case of identity theft after aParker Township woman reported that someone between May 1 and Friday used her personal information to make online purchases.

3:50 p.m. Sunday — A Rimersburg man was seriously injured when he crashed his pickup truck into a tree along Lawsonham Road in Madison Township, Clarion County.Richard Brown, 67, was trapped inside the pickup, which rolled onto its side after slamming into the tree. Rimersburg volunteer firefighters helped free Brown from the wreckage, before he was flown by medical helicopter to an undisclosed hospital. Police said Brown was not wearing a seat belt.3:42 a.m. Saturday — David McMaster, 18, of Butler was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence at Spudic and Traister roads in Madison Township, Clarion County.

10 p.m. Saturday — Heather Lee Cousins, 24, of Kittanning was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence of a controlled substance on Route 28 in South Buffalo Township, Armstrong County.Police said that Cousins and a passenger, Chris Brian Myers, 24, of Butler, were wanted on warrants out of Butler County; both were placed in the Butler County Prison without bond.Troopers also learned that a second passenger, Justin Dane Johnson, 24, of Kittanning, was also wanted on a warrant out of Armstrong County; Johnson was placed in the Armstrong County Jail without bond.

6:05 p.m. Saturday — Cars driven by Mary Kearns, 61, of Glenshaw, Allegheny County and Heidi Jabaut, 22, of Prospect collided at Route 173 and Scrubgrass Road in Wolf Creek Township, Mercer County. Kearns, who was wearing a seat belt, suffered minor injuries.3:10 p.m. Saturday — Robert Coleman, 55, of Lisbon, Ohio, was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence after his car crashed on Route 258 near Route 208 in Springfield Township, Mercer County.