POLICE REPORTS
These items have been collected from various police departments.
Butler Police
Monday — Police reported they charged a 17-year-old Chicora boy with drugged driving in connection with a 1:43 a.m. Feb. 23 traffic stop on East Wayne Street. Officers pulled over the teen’s car after he failed to dim his high beams and because the vehicle’s license plate was obscured by snow.
The boy, who authorities did not identify, appeared to be impaired. He admitted he was under the influence of marijuana.
Officers searched the car and found suspected marijuana wax wrapped in paper next to the driver’s seat. Marijuana wax is the product of extracting THC, the hallucinogenic chemical in marijuana, from the cannabis, which authorities say provides the user with a more potent high.
Toxicology results last week showed the boy had three times the legal limit of THC in his blood.
Police said the boy is charged in juvenile court with driving under the influence of a controlled substance, possession of a small amount of marijuana, driving with a suspended license, improper use of high beams and improper display of a license plate.
6:24 p.m. Saturday — Stacy R. Byers, 25, of Butler faces a felony drug charge after she was arrested for public intoxication at the Island Bar on South Washington Street.
Police were called to the bar for a report of an unresponsive woman. Officers found Byers on a bar stool being tended to by other patrons.
Butler Ambulance Service and Butler Fire Department medical crews arrived and started treating her. However, she refused further medical treatment.
Police said that while speaking to Byers, they suspected she was drunk and arrested her, believing she was a potential danger to herself and because she was annoying others at the bar.
Byers was taken to the Butler County Prison where a search turned up a plastic baggie containing 2 grams of suspected cocaine in her bra. Also in the bra was $334.
Police said she also was found with two cell phones.
Byers was arraigned on charges of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and public drunkenness. She was placed in the prison on $50,000 bail following arraignment.
8:45 p.m. Friday — Janice Ann Galbreath, 61, of Butler was arrested on a bench warrant at North Main and Pearl streets. She was placed in he Butler County Prison on the warrant that was previously issued after she failed to appeared for a court hearing in a 2012 access device fraud case, court records showed.
3:49 p.m. Friday — Jeremy M. Flood, 30, no known address, was arrested after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend, 44-year-old Jodi L. Wyant, and threatened to break her jaw during a domestic dispute at her home in the 100 block of West Cunningham Street.
Wyant, who came to the station to make a report, had a bloody cut on her face. She told officers that Flood had hit her in the face with a stack of compact discs that he threw at her, a police report said.
Police also learned that Catholic Charities, which owns the building where the woman lives, had barred Flood from the property.
Officers later went to the apartment and found Flood hiding under a pullout mattress. Police also found that he was wanted by Pittsburgh police on a warrant.
He was placed in the Butler County Prison on charges of terroristic threats, simple assault and defiant trespass, and for the out-of-county warrant.
March 26 — A thief stole a Verizon tablet and a book bag from an unlocked vehicle at a home on Garfield Avenue. The property, valued at an estimated $200, was taken between 5:30 and 10:50 p.m.
Butler Twp. Police
Monday — Police charged Erin C. Torres, 26, of Butler stemming from a suspected road rage incident about 11:35 a.m. Feb. 24 at the Butler Crossing shopping plaza parking lot.
Officers suspect Torres got upset with another motorist at the nearby Butler Commons plaza and followed the alleged victim to Butler Crossing, where the alleged assault occurred. Torres is charged with stalking, simple assault, harassment, disorderly conduct and driving with a suspended license.
2:21 p.m. Thursday — A car driven by Emily Elder, 19, of Emlenton rear-ended another vehicle on New Castle Road in front of the Target store. Rebecca Traggiai, 46, of Sarver was the other driver.
Monday — Police charged Joshua P. Macko, 40, of Butler with drunken driving after he was found about 12:35 a.m. March 21 passed out behind the wheel of his truck at the McDonald’s restaurant drive-through at Butler Crossing. He is charged with driving under the influence.
State Police, Butler
1:30 p.m. Monday — Jennifer C. Matus, 20, of Cabot was hurt in a two-vehicle collision at Saxonburg Boulevard and Blakely Road in Jefferson Township. The crash happened when a sport utility vehicle driven by Kayla M. Wagner, 22, of Harmony turned in front of the SUV that Matus was driving.
Matus, who was wearing a seat belt, suffered minor knee pain. Wagner was cited for a stop sign violation.
Monday — Police reported two 17-year-old boys have been charged in connection with three separate fights between March 26 and 31 at the Summit Academy reform school in Summit Township. Both boys, who police did not identify, are charged in juvenile court with three counts each of simple assault and harassment.
1 a.m. Sunday — Jonathan L. Madden, 35, of Butler was arrested for suspicion of driving the influence at Route 38 and Thorn Hill Road in Summit Township.
12:58 a.m. Sunday — Someone shot out a second-story window of a man’s home on Powder Mill Road. The unknown suspects drove away in a small, light-colored four-door sedan.
9:45 a.m. Friday — Dean M. Minto, 45, of East Butler was arrested for suspicion of drugged driving after he was found asleep at the wheel of his running car at a book store parking lot on Route 38 in Summit Township.
Another motorist first notified authorities after she followed Minto from Center and Drive and Monroe Street in Butler, out of the city, onto Route 68 and eventually to Route 38. The other driver described the suspect’s erratic driving that stopped only when he reportedly pulled into the Paradise Book Store and went to sleep with the engine on and the transmission in reverse.
Troopers got there, reached into the car and put it in park, and awakened Minto, according to court documents. Police noticed a baggie of suspected cocaine between his legs. The officers in speaking with Minto believed he was impaired.
He was arrested and taken to Butler Memorial Hospital for a blood test.
Minto later arraigned on charges of driving under the influence of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, disregarding traffic lanes, careless driving and not wearing a seat belt. He was placed in the Butler County Prison on $7,5000 bail following arraignment.
Court records show that Minto was arrested for driving on drugs March 2 in Jackson Township. He is awaiting his preliminary hearing later this month in that case.
1:57 a.m. Friday — Raymond Boldstridge-Widenhofer, 23, of Lyndora was arrested for suspicion of DUI at Route 8 and North Benbrook Road in Center Township.
State Police, Kittanning
4:10 a.m. Monday — A 19-year-old Kittanning man was found with suspected heroin and other contraband at ACMH Hospital in East Franklin Township. The man, who police did not identify, faces charges of possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.
