Carnegie

Timothy R. Baker, 46, of the 600 block of Ridge Avenue, was charged twice with public drunkenness. One incident took place Sunday on Ridge Avenue and the other occurred two days earlier on West Main Street.

Matthew H. Lasich, 23, of the 500 block of Constitution Circle, Clairton, was charged Aug. 20 with reckless endangerment after he left a loaded handgun on a bed at Carnegie Towers.

Christopher O. Houghton Jr., 21, of the 300 block of Knox Avenue, was charged last Sunday with simple assault after an incident on Knox Avenue.

Brian C. Clark Jr., 18, of the 100 block of Jacunda Street, Pittsburgh, was charged with simple assault and harassment after an incident at Carnegie Towers.

William R. Jordan II, 22, of the 900 block of Kennedy Street, was charged Aug. 18 with disorderly conduct on Kennedy Street after police received complaints about a loud guitar on Kennedy Street.

On Aug. 19, a man was found assaulted on Bouquet Street and taken to Allegheny General Hospital. Police, who do not know if the assault took place in Carnegie, are investigating.

On Aug. 17, a JVC stereo was stolen from an unlocked attached garage in the 700 block of Collier Avenue.

Collier

Aaron Scarber, 20, of Arlington Court, Pittsburgh, was charged Aug. 19 with underage drinking and possession of a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. The incident occurred at Callahan's, Great Southern Shopping Center.

On Aug. 20, a resident of St. Mellion Drive in Nevillewood reported the theft of five expensive bottles of wine from his wine cellar. Four were worth $150 each, but the fifth, which was a gift, was valued at $4,000. The thefts are believed to have occurred between July 19 and Aug. 17.

Kennedy

Dennis Deluca, 20, of Carnegie, and Julio Medina, 21, of Bulger, were arrested Aug. 16 in connection with armed robberies at two North Hills hotels.

The men were stopped in a vehicle on Route 910 near Interstate 79.

The Pine-Marshall-Bradford Woods police department found drug paraphernalia and evidence from the crimes inside a room the men had rented at the Travel Inn in Kennedy.

Robinson

Police arrested three women Aug. 9 on charges that they stole nearly $800 worth of merchandise from Kohl's.

Charged with retail theft, receiving stolen property and criminal conspiracy were Cama Hunsberger, 24, of Franklin; Rebecca Smith, 25, of Coraopolis; and Danielle Ratti, 18, of Imperial.

Sharon Lepore, 33, of Pittsburgh, was charged Aug. 8 with simple assault, theft and criminal mischief after failing to pay for services at Nail Studio II. Police said Lepore assaulted an employee who confronted her.

Andrea Asher, 22, of Carnegie, was charged Aug. 8 with driving under the influence of alcohol, endangering the welfare of children and reckless endangerment after a one-car accident on Glass Road.

Scott

Three boys, one from Scott and two from Carnegie, have been charged in connection with three recent break-ins.

Two occurred Aug. 12 at two businesses at the Superior Mill Complex, where, police said, they vandalized the company interiors.

In the third, the boys are accused of entering a window of a residence in the 500 block of Magazine Street and stealing a large plastic bottle containing $170 in bills and an unknown amount of change.

Shortly after 8 p.m. Aug. 17, a young boy was playing football with some friends near Railroad Street when another boy came along and asked to borrow his cell phone. The boy ran away with it. The next day, police found the phone in the possession of one of three boys who were lounging around Cress Street.

John Young, 56, of the 500 block of Carothers Avenue, was charged Aug. 16 with public drunkenness after, officers said, they saw him staggering at Carothers and Creek Street.

Matthew Kline, 39, of the 200 block of Locust Street, was charged Aug. 17 with public drunkenness after, police said, they spotted him staggering and holding onto phone poles on Finley Avenue.

A Dell laptop computer and accessories in a Samsonite case were reported stolen Aug. 12 from a car that had been towed for salvage to Walt and Al's Body Shop on Noblestown Road. The theft could have occurred as early as June 6.

Four incidents of identity theft were reported recently to police.

On Aug. 12, two people reported receiving e-mail messages requesting passwords from what looked like eBay.

Complying with such a message gives the sender information to access those accounts. Another person reported Aug. 15 the fraudulent use of a Visa card for $134.35. The caller believes the theft might have occurred while he was buying prepaid phone minutes last month.

Another person reported Aug. 12 that her name, date of birth and Social Security card had been used fraudulently to obtain a Best Buy credit card in Garland, Texas.

On Aug. 12, a woman reported that her mother, who lives on Hughes Street, received a phone call saying she had won $500,000. The woman used the star key on the telephone key pad and the numbers 57 to obtained the caller's phone number and provided it to the phone company.

Between 8:30 p.m. Aug. 11 and 6:30 a.m. Aug. 12, it was reported that someone siphoned $70 worth of gas from a truck parked on Greenvalley Drive. The theft was noticed after the truck wouldn't start and a puddle of gas was found on the ground near the gas tank.

An employee at the Sunrise Assisted Living facility on Greentree Road reported that someone entered his locked car in the parking lot, opened the glove compartment and stole $30 and a Visa card between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Aug. 13.

The manager of Wal-Mart, Raceway Plaza, reported that someone stole a $200 power washer from the front of the store between 11:30 p.m. and 11:55 p.m. Aug. 15.

A new 20-inch blue mountain bike was reported stolen the night of Aug. 12-13 from a front porch in the 500 block of Center Street.