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7:41 p.m. Tuesday — Jeremy Lee Jones, 25, of Butler was arrested after he was caught allegedly shoplifting merchandise from the Kmart store at Pullman Square. He is accused of stealing three folding saws valued at $60.Police suspect Jones previously stole other items that he later returned for a store gift card worth $126, according to court documents.The defendant took off running from the store but he didn't get far. Police nabbed him near Pullman Park.A three-time convicted shoplifter, Jones was arraigned on a felony count of retail theft, and placed in the Butler County Prison on $3,000 bail.Aug. 27 — Police charged Laina L. Winters, 48, of Parker and Lisa L. Vozar, 50, of Butler with falsely incriminating another person. The pair, who are sisters, on Aug. 25 filed a robbery report against a man, claiming he had stolen $700 from them on Main Street, according to court documents.The defendants, in the report, told police the money was to pay their mother's credit card bill. They said that the man grabbed it out of Winters' hand and ran off.Police said that based on the sisters' information, they charged the man. The next day, however, the defendants' story unraveled.The man they had accused appeared at the police station for an interview. He showed investigators text messages from Winters that suggested she had contacted him Aug. 25, seeking to buy prescription painkillers, documents said.He recounted he met Winters on Main Street later that day and she gave him money for the drugs, police said. He walked to a nearby apartment building to buy the drugs from a dealer.“(The dealer) was to get the pills and return but disappeared with the money,” according to a police affidavit.The man's account, police said, was largely corroborated from another man.Winters and Vozar are both charged with filing a false report to police, a second-degree misdemeanor.

2:55 p.m. Tuesday — Lonn Shaffer, 47, of Harmony was hurt in a chain-reaction wreck at Route 68 and New Castle Road.The crash happened when a car driven by Isaac Harbison, 16, of Butler rear-ended a vehicle driven by Jacob Mohan, 16, of Butler. The collision, in turn, pushed Mohan's vehicle into the back of a vehicle that Shaffer was driving.Mohan and Shaffer were both stopped in traffic when the crash happened. Shaffer suffered a minor injury.Police said Harbison was cited for driving at an unsafe speed and careless driving.

Wednesday — Timothy P. Mainhart, 29, of Connoquenessing Township was arrested after he allegedly stole a woman's car in Summit Township last month.The car's owner reported the 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier, which was unlocked, was taken July 6 or 7 from her home in the 100 block of Brinker Road. Later, someone told her that Mainhart was seen getting into the car and driving away with it, according to court documents.The owner advised police that she did not give the defendant permission to take the car.On July 7, she contacted police informing them that Mainhart, while in contact with her son on Facebook, admitted taking the vehicle, documents said. She said the suspect acknowledged he took the car and apologized for taking it.Mainhart, in the Facebook message, claimed he “needed a ride and parked the vehicle behind (a sandwich shop) in Saxonburg,” a police affidavit said.District Judge Lewis Stoughton arraigned Mainhart on a felony charge of theft, a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized use of a vehicle and a summary charge of driving with a suspended license. He remains free on $10,000 unsecured bail.Tuesday — An unknown thief stole a wallet from a car on Charlemagne Drive in Jefferson Township. The theft happened between 11 p.m. Monday and 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.Monday — Someone between 8:30 and 9 a.m. stole $750 from Lee's Place bar on Herman Road in Summit Township. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 724-284-8100.Aug. 22 — Police charged Paul S. Carson, 29, of Pittsburgh will illegally trying to buy a gun at Sportsman's Supply Company in Summit Township earlier this year.Carson allegedly lied on his application Feb. 28 to buy the firearm. In completing a federal form required to buy the gun, according to court documents, the defendant denied that he has any pending criminal case against him.A police affidavit, however, showed that he is currently facing in Allegheny County Court a felony charge of carrying a firearm without a permit.Police noted the Pennsylvania Instant Check system, an automated system by which gun dealers can determine if someone can legally buy a gun in the state, denied Carson's gun purchase in February.He is charged with unlawfully attempting to buy a firearm, a felony and unsworn falsification to authorities, a misdemeanor.

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