Friday, May 16
Item stolen State police said an MP3 player owned by a Waynesburg boy was stolen from his locker at Waynesburg Central High School in Franklin Township April 15.
Accident reported
State police said the driver and passenger of a vehicle that hit a tree on Hilltop Road in Jefferson Twp. were injured in an accident at 10:30 p.m. May 10.
Police said the vehicle’s passenger, James A. Webeck, 17, of Clarksville was flown to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, W.Va. for treatment of major injuries. Driver Theodore Yanak Jr., 17, of Brownsville was treated at Southwest Regional Medical Center in Waynesburg, police said.
Window broken
State police in Waynesburg said someone broke a window at Kimberly Plum’s home in Dilliner, Dunkard Twp., at 5:15 a.m. May 10. Charges are pending.
Wallet stolen
State police reported that Courtney Jellots of Clarksville had her wallet stolen from a vehicle parked at Reeseman’s Mobile Home Park in Morgan Twp. sometime between May 5 and 8.
Man charged
State police charged Donald Robert Dugan III, 24, of Uniontown with public drunkenness after he was allegedly found staggering down the middle of Nemacolin Road in Cumberland Twp. highly intoxicated at 12:10 a.m. May 9, police said.
Accident reported
State police reported no injuries when a dump truck driven by Scott J. Lynch, 46, of Pittsburgh and the trailer section of a truck driven by Clyde O. Hess, 53, of Elkview, W.Va., collided on Interstate 79 at 8:05 a.m. May 7.
Crash reported
Thomas Phillips Jr., 21, of Carmichaels was not injured when his car hit a utility pole and then the vehicle rolled onto its roof on Rt. 88 in Cumberland Twp. at 2:45 a.m. May 8, state police said.
Two charged
State police charged Harry Frederick Franks, 32, and Heather Dawn Franks, 27, both of Bobtown, with simple assault after they allegedly got into a fight at their home on South Moreland St. in Dunkard Twp. at 6:23 p.m. May 10.
Woman hit
David Charles Hornicsar, 45, of Elizabeth was cited with harassment after he allegedly hit Carol Ann Norton, 42, of Elizabeth in the head and face while driving on Lippencott Run Road in Franklin Twp. on May 3, state police said.
Woman charged
State police charged Michele Ann Wilson, 38, of Brownfield with harassment after an alleged confrontation with Ernest Jenkins, 40, of Adah on Minor St. in Greensboro Borough on May 11.
Juveniles arrested
State police in Waynesburg arrested two 14-year-old boys and one 13-year-old boy in Mt. Morris at 7:45 a.m. May 11. Police said that the boys stole a car in Gaithersburg, Md., and were eventually arrested in Greene County. The boys were charged with receiving stolen property and placed in the Westmoreland County Detention Center by Greene County probation officers, police said.
Accident reported
State police said Michael Curtis Craw of East Lansing, Mich., lost control of his vehicle and hit a guardrail on Interstate 79 in Whiteley Twp. around 6:13 p.m. May 10. Craw was not injured in the crash, police said.
Man arrested twice
A Marianna man was arrested this weekend for drunken driving twice in one night.
Shaun Rice, 22, was first arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol around 12:34 a.m. May 10, said state police Trooper John Pash.
By 2:13 a.m., Rice was released from police into his sister’s custody, with a warning not to drive.
Pash said Rice was dropped off at All Star Express, a gas station in Carmichaels. There, Rice was “given the keys to his vehicle, and he left the scene,” Pash wrote in a release.
Rice, police alleged, headed north on Route 88 before getting pulled over again.
A second charge of DUI was filed, police said.
Rice also faces charges of harassment and criminal mischief.
Pash alleged that before Rice left the gas station, he grabbed Kristie Huseman, 19, of Bentleyville by the neck and shoved her into a car.
Then Rice punched out the rear passenger window of Marianna resident Angela Gallagher’s 1992 Oldsmobile, police alleged.
Police did not say what Rice’s relationship is with either of the women.
The first traffic stop occurred near Route 21 in Cumberland Township, when Trooper Michael K. Hertig stopped Rice.