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West Police Blotter
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Bridgeville

• Christopher P. Norton, 22, of Pittsburgh, was charged Friday with driving under the influence of alcohol and several minor traffic violations following a one-vehicle accident on Cook School Road.

• Megan Ann Boe, 20, of Dillon, Mont., was charged Aug. 25 with being a transient retail merchant for, police said, selling cleaning products door-to-door without a permit. Her boss, Stewart Silvers, was charged with criminal conspiracy in the same incident.

• Paul A. Zuccaro, 19, of Carnegie, and Tyler Blake, 19, of Collier, were charged Aug. 24 with two counts of criminal mischief for, police said, throwing cement through two car windows on Osceola Street.

• Thomas M. Lento, 47, of Imperial, was charged with two counts of theft after, police said, he took $120 in cash and a credit card from a Vesper Street home.

Carnegie

• Mark Staub, 25, of Scott, was charged Aug. 23 with driving under the influence of alcohol and failure to stop for a red light in an Aug. 3 incident at Mansfield Avenue and Jane Street.

• Ronald J. Day, 49, of Plum, was charged by summons Aug. 25 with theft by deception in connection with an unfinished window replacement job on Parkview Drive.

Collier

• Carmen Caliguiri, 58, of Carnegie, was charged Aug. 19 with driving under the influence of alcohol on Ewing Road.

• David Weber, 19, of South Fayette, was charged Aug. 19 with retail theft, receiving stolen property, identity theft and access device fraud for, police said, using his store clerk job to activate in-house credit cards and obtain $1,068.70 in cash from Office Max, Great Southern Shopping Center.

• Lisa Lange, 35, of Bridgeville, a cashier at Big Lots, Great Southern Shopping Center, was charged Aug. 23 with retail theft for, police said, allowing some shoppers to leave without paying for $1,019 in merchandise.

• Anna Wojciewszynska, 21, of Windber, Somerset County, was charged Friday with public drunkenness and disorderly conduct at RPMs, Washington Pike.

• Daniel Tallon, 19, of Robinson, was charged Aug. 17 with driving under the influence of drugs, possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia and trespass by a motor vehicle. His passenger, Peter Roman, 19, of Heidelberg, was charged with public drunkenness and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The incident occurred Aug. 8 on Fifth Street, where an officer saw a car parked off the road under some power lines. A check of the vehicle indicated the car smelled of marijuana.

• Tyler Pruss, 18, of Collier was charged Aug. 24 with driving under the influence of drugs, possession of a prohibited offensive weapon (brass knuckles) and recklessly endangering another person on Aug. 14 after, police said, an officer found him inside a car parked on the Panhandle Trail. A female juvenile was a passenger in the car.

Findlay

• Lewis J. Walters of Carnegie was charged Aug. 24 with disorderly conduct after, police said, he displayed a weapon in an intimidating fashion in a road rage incident on Cliff Mine Road.

Heidelberg

• Patricia L. Harke, 44, of Ingram, was charged Saturday with 10 criminal charges, including driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, endangering the welfare of children and possession of narcotics after, police said, the vehicle she was operating caught the attention of police on Washington Pike because it had two flat tires and was riding on its rims. Police said they found an open bottle of vodka in the car, as well as various bottles of pills.

Her 4-year-old granddaughter, who was in the back seat, was turned over to the county's Department of Children, Youth and Families after her legal guardian could not be reached.

• After police responded early Aug. 22 to a loud noise complaint on Second Street, Donna M. Emling, 29, of Heidelberg, Robert S. Gallocher, 28, of Bridgeville, and Tyler R. Blake, 19, of Collier, were charged with selling or furnishing alcohol to minors. Mr. Blake was also charged with possession of a controlled substance and underage drinking.

• Nate A. Smith III, 19, of Bridgeville, and a female juvenile were charged with underage possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages.

• Thomas J. Keady, 25, of Pittsburgh, was charged Sunday with driving a vehicle with stolen plates, having no automobile insurance and other motor vehicle violations, as well as possession of drug paraphernalia on Washington Pike at Greentree Road.

Kennedy

• An 18-year-old Carnegie woman was charged Aug. 25 with littering after, police said, she tossed trash out the window of her car onto Clever Road.

• Jesse Rager, 22, and Joseph Druzak, 43, both of Aliquippa, were arrested Aug. 24 on drug charges after, police said, they found suspected drug paraphernalia in their vehicle, which police said had been stopped after failing to observe stop signs in the Kennedy Center Shopping Center.

McDonald

• Gregory Sweetie, 52, of McDonald, was charged Aug. 24 with criminal mischief, two counts of stalking and two counts of harassment after complaints Aug. 3 from a McDonald woman.

Scott

• Frank J. Wagner, 38, of Scott, was charged Saturday with aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after a domestic dispute on Scrubgrass Road.

• Tyler R. Blake, 19, of Collier, was charged Aug. 24 with driving under the influence and liquor law violations after police received a report from Bridgeville police about a criminal mischief incident. Mr. Blake was stopped on Washington Pike, police said.

• Matthew Jeffreys, 26, of Scott, was charged Saturday with driving under the influence of alcohol on Washington Pike.

• Raymond A. Quevi, 37, of Pittsburgh, was charged with burglary, criminal mischief and possession of marijuana after police received a report Friday about an intruder inside a vacant house on Border Street.

• Nathan Stoner, 27, of Pittsburgh, was charged Aug. 25 with possession and drug paraphernalia after being stopped for a traffic violation on Greentree Road.

• Jason D. Burge, 38, of Pittsburgh, was charged Saturday with public drunkenness after police responded to a loud party complaint on Scrubgrass Road.

• David Pozzuto Jr., 40, of Pittsburgh, was charged Saturday with public drunkenness on Scrubgrass Road.


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First published on September 2, 2010 at 5:56 am