Sep 16, 2004 2 min read

September 16, 2004 Masontown

Monthly activity report

In August, the borough police department responded to 275 requests for police services that included 26 suspicious person or activity reports, 12 alarms, 12 assists to other agencies, three 911 hang-up calls, 11 criminal mischief, four accidents, 14 juvenile complaints, 11 miscellaneous complaints, 16 traffic/parking complaints, two abandoned vehicles, seven escorts, 17 domestics, four animal complaints, five community services, two reported borough ordinance offenses, two “302” commitments, five motorist assists, four child custody disputes, six Automated External Defibrillators responses, one terroristic threats, two neighbor disputes, two stolen vehicles, two lost property cases, one recovered property and 39 requests for departmental information.

Police arrested six people in 20 disturbances, four people in four public drunkenness reports, three arrests in 10 harassments cases, two arrests out of 15 reported thefts, one arrest out of three trespass reports, one arrest out of five drug offense reports, two arrests out of two reckless endangerment situations, one arrest out of two assaults reported, one arrest out of one reported burglary, three arrests in three warrant services and one arrest out of one fraud case reported.

Police also issued 15 traffic citations and recovered $5,700 in $7,800 of lost or stolen property.

Masontown

Rash of thefts

Borough police are urging all residents to remove their keys from their vehicles and lock the doors at night due to a recent rash of thefts in the area. Most recently, assistant Masontown Volunteer Fire Department chief Donald Beck III told police $25 and a fire department monitor were stolen from his truck while it was parked in front of the fire station early Tuesday morning while Beck was fighting the Dollar General fire on Washington Street.

Masontown

Vehicle recovered

Borough police recovered the 1997 CJ-5 Jeep reported stolen Sunday night by owner Derek Corcoran, 20, of 2 Cedar St. in a driveway off North Main Street. Police said the Jeep had moderate damage on the front and rear bumpers.

Masontown

Two arrested

Borough police arrested a 25-year-old McClellandtown man and a 26-year-old Masontown man in addition to citing Geary Harris, 21, of McClellandtown for disorderly conduct after a large disturbance inside Mickey Magee’s Tavern on South Main Street Saturday night. State police and officers from Point Marion and Fairchance assisted the borough police department in quelling the disturbance.

Uniontown

Man cited

Terry Lee Back, 39, of 51 Bradbury St., Uniontown, was cited with public drunkenness following a disturbance on Main Street at 7:23 a.m. Tuesday, city police said.