Published November 04, 2009 03:03 pm - A compilation of reports from area police and fire departments.
Police, Fire from November 5, 2009
Herald staff
Greenville-West Salem Township
• Paul Daly, 2 Lancaster Ave., Greenville, was cited Saturday for letting dogs run at large, police said.
Grove City
• A 13-year-old was charged with disorderly conduct after police responded Oct. 22 to reports of a juvenile igniting wood chips with gasoline at the Union Street playground, police said.
Hermitage
• Silas Copeland Jr., 19, of Kent, Ohio, was arrested at 3:27 p.m. Tuesday at East State Street and Buhl Farm Drive on charges of receiving stolen property and driving without a license for driving a car that had been stolen Saturday in Kent, police said. A passenger, Jessica Krall, 24, of 18 E. Stewart Ave., Greenville, was charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, police said.
• Mark A. McNulty Jr., 21, of 353 Davis St., Sharon, was arrested at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 28 at Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers, 120 N. Hermitage Road, by agents of Pennsylvania Probation and Parole on a probation violation for entering the fast-food restaurant when he had been banned from there, police said. A charge of possession of drug paraphernalia was added when police found two marijuana pipes in his van, police said.
Sharon
• Someone between 9 and 11:30 a.m. Monday stole about $1,000 in jewelry, including several rings and a necklace from a home in the 400 block of Smith Avenue, police said.
SW Mercer County Regional
• Russell L. Bennett, 39, of 114 Wallis Ave., Farrell, has been charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct for participating in the beating of a woman at about 3 p.m. July 8 at 319 Federal St., Farrell, police said. While another man held the woman in a headlock and hit her in the head, Bennett hit her in the head with a car anti-theft device, police said.
State police
• Someone stole various electronic items last Thursday from a home in the 400 block of Stoneboro Road in Wolf Creek Township, police said.
Residents should pay close attention to people stopping and knocking on doors to see if anyone is home or any suspicious people or vehicles, police said, adding they should write down license plate numbers and descriptions of such people.
• Someone early Oct. 25 stole two vide game systems, a number of games, a computer and monitor and a .22-caliber bolt action rifle from a home on State Line Road in Greene Township, police said. They also stole a pickup and drove it south before getting it stuck in a ditch about 100 feet from the home, police said.