These items have been collected from various police departments.

[naviga:h2]Butler Police[/naviga:h2]

7:29 a.m. Thursday — A car driven by Michael J. Mascara Jr., 22, of New Kensington, Westmoreland County, and a sport utility vehicle driven by Amy S. Cottrell, 48, of Naperville, Ill., collided at East Cunningham and South McKean streets.

Police said Mascara faces a ticket for failing to stop at a red light.

9:06 a.m. Saturday — A Clinton Township man suffered a minor injury when an SUV struck him at North Main and East Locust streets.

Shawn McCommon, 38, was hit as he was attempting to walk across East Locust Street, according to a police report.

The front left corner of the vehicle, driven by Melissa D. Savannah, hit McCommon. He was knocked down and his head hit the road.

Savannah recounted that she was southbound on North Main Street and turned left onto East Locust Street when McCommon “suddenly appeared,” the report said. She was not cited.

[naviga:h2]Butler Twp Police[/naviga:h2]

Thursday — Michael R. Linn, 30, of Franklin Township was charged with being more than 3½ times over the legal limit for alcohol stemming from a reckless driver call last month.

Police said they found Linn about 4 p.m. March 14 at the GetGo store on Route 8 north. He reeked of alcohol, according to court documents. His car was parked at the gas pumps.

Store surveillance footage later showed Linn pulling into the parking lot and hitting the curb and pole near the pumps.

He was taken to Butler Memorial Hospital for a blood test after refusing to take field sobriety tests. Toxicology results showed his blood-alcohol level was 0.30 percent, documents said. A level of 0.08 percent is considered intoxicated under state law.

Linn is charged with driving under the influence and driving with an unauthorized inspection sticker.

Wednesday — Bradley J. Harriett, 43, of Butler was charged with drugged driving stemming from a call last month at the Rent-A-Center parking lot at Butler Commons.

Police said they found Harriett after a caller reported a possible impaired driver. He was subsequently arrested after failing field sobriety tests and an evaluation by a drug recognition expert, according to court documents.

Toxicology reports later showed he had cocaine, methadone and the anti-anxiety medication alprazolam in his system.

In addition to driving under the influence of a controlled substance, Harriett is charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia, making a false report, false identification to law enforcement authorities and driving with a suspended license-DUI related.

[naviga:h2]Adams Twp Police[/naviga:h2]

4:10 p.m. Sunday — Kimberly Ann Goucher, 32, of Allison Park, Allegheny County, was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs on Three Degree Road. Police said they initially stopped her for having an expired inspection sticker.

A search during the traffic stop turned up five stamp bags of suspected heroin, a Suboxone strip and drug contraband, police said. Goucher was taken to UPMC Passavant Cranberry for a blood test. Toxicology reports are pending.

In addition to DUI, she was arraigned on two counts of possession of a controlled substance and charges of possession of drug paraphernalia, driving without a license, driving an unregistered vehicle, driving without insurance and the inspection sticker violation.

Goucher was placed in Butler County Prison on $10,000 bail following arraignment.

[naviga:h2]Butler County Detectives[/naviga:h2]

Saturday — Christopher L. Matthews, 35, of Petrolia was arrested nearly five weeks after he allegedly cut off his electronic ankle monitor and left his home on Sunbury Street.

Matthews was on house arrest Feb. 27 when he removed the monitoring device, according to court documents. He was sentenced Dec. 20 to 90 days on house arrest in connection with a simple assault case.

Probation officers went to his home after the ankle bracelet registered an alarm signaling he had cut off the device.

But when the officers got there, the suspect was gone. They recovered the device, which had its strap cut.

Zelienople police arrested Matthews, who is charged with escape, a felony.

[naviga:h2]Slippery Rock University Police[/naviga:h2]

March 31 — Police charged an Allegheny County teenager with making up a story about being robbed while walking on campus.

The suspect, George D. Curry Jr., 18, of Allison Park, about 1:40 a.m. Feb. 5 called 911 to report that three males had pulled up in a car on Maltby Avenue, and one of the occupants had pointed a handgun at him, taking $25, according to court documents.

He hung up. When a dispatcher tried calling him back, he did not answer.

About 35 minutes later, a police affidavit said, 911 got another call from a man stating “his friend had called to report that he was robbed. He then stated that the call was not real, then hung up.”

Curry is charged with making a false report and disorderly conduct.

[naviga:h2]State Police, Butler[/naviga:h2]

March 31 — Duwayne M. Craig, 59, was arrested on charges he was growing marijuana last summer at his home in Marion Township.

A call from Craig’s son Aug. 15 led police to the house on Boyers Road. There, according to court documents, police found nine potted marijuana plants in a greenhouse-type shed.

The defendant let troopers search the house, which uncovered nothing illegal.

As for what was found in the shed, documents said, Craig told police that it was a product of seeds he had kept from a prior marijuana buy.

“The seeds were then planted to produce plants from which he intended for his own personal use,” according to a police affidavit.

Craig was arraigned on a felony charge of manufacturing a controlled substance, and later released on $10,000 unsecured bail.

March 31 — Police charged an Indiana County teenager with vandalizing a Slippery Rock Township home in March. The suspect, Ryan W. Hoff, 18, of Indiana, is accused of throwing a propane cylinder through a window at the home on Cobblestone Road about 3 a.m. March 5.

Hoff is charged with criminal mischief.

[naviga:h2]State Police, Kittanning[/naviga:h2]

12:05 a.m. Monday — Police are searching for a suspect accused of attempting to start a fight with a 28-year-old Sarver man before firing a gun into the air outside a home near the Allegheny-Butler County line.

Christopher A. Mystkowski, 28, of New Kensington is wanted on an arrest warrant in the case.

Mystkowski allegedly fired “multiple rounds” from a firearm during the altercation at the home on Route 98 in Fawn Township. A 26-year-old woman who lives there has a protection from abuse order against the suspect.

Police said Mystkowski was gone before they got there. He is charged with failing to surrender all his firearms after being served with a PFA.

Additionally, he is charged with terroristic threats, two counts each of reckless endangerment and simple assault, disorderly conduct and trespass.

2:29 p.m. Sunday — Curtis C. Shaffer, 43, of Worthington allegedly failed to scan multiple items while at the self-checkout at the Hilltop Plaza Walmart in East Franklin Township.

Police said when store employees tried to stop Shaffer, he fled. He is charged with misdemeanor counts of retail theft and receiving stolen property.