Published September 05, 2008 05:28 pm - A compilation of reports from area police and fire departments.
Police, Fire from Sept. 6, 2008
Herald staff
Brookfield
• Aloysius C. Carzoo, 20, of Hubbard, was charged at about 8:50 p.m. Aug. 29 with underage drinking in the 600 block of Collar-Price Road, police said.
Mercer County Sheriff
• William McBride, 47, of 214 Jameson Road, Jackson Center, was arrested at 2 p.m. Thursday after an investigation for failing to turn in firearms due to a protection-from-abuse order, sheriff’s deputies said.
McBride is also charged with manufacturing marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and persons not to possess a firearm, deputies said.
SW Mercer County Regional
• Kenneth L. Cupic, 41, Crestline, Ohio, has been charged with arson endangering people, arson endangering property and criminal mischief for torching a home Oct. 23, 2006, at 1001 Federal St., Farrell, police said.
The fire was reported at about 11:15 p.m. Cupic told police he had left home at about 8 p.m. to visit a friend in Conneaut Lake, but a neighbor told police she saw Cupic leave the house about 20 minutes before the fire, and a woman said Cupic was painting for her between 9 and 9:30 p.m., police said.
State police
• Kenneth L. Rutlin, 39, of 332 Shenango Blvd., Farrell, has been charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and false identification.
Rutlin was riding in a car stopped for a burned-out brake light at 7:45 p.m. June 27 on Union Street, Farrell, police said. He gave police a different name, and had marijuana in his pocket, police said.
• A 17-year-old boy escaped from George Junior Republic, Pine Township, and was apprehended at about 1:50 a.m. Monday three miles away, walking along state Route 58, police said.
• Someone stole a chainsaw, leaf blower and weedeater between 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 7:30 p.m. Sunday from a Greenfield Road home in Lackawannock Township, police said.
• Cody A. Noble, 22, Greenville, was slightly injured at about 7 p.m. Wednesday on state Route 358 in Perry Township when Dorothy J. Reed, 74, Hadley, pulled her car into the path of his motorcycle, police said.
Noble hit her car and was thrown over its trunk, landing on the road, police said. He managed to crawl off the road. An ambulance was driving behind the motorcycle, witnessed the accident, and immediately helped the motorcyclist, taking him to UPMC Horizon, Greenville, police said.