Saturation detail aid burglary probes
State police conducted a saturation detail in the Connellsville area Monday night that resulted in multiple arrests and the uncovering of a hoard of evidence after an investigation led them to a home in Uniontown. State police Cpl. Chuck Frey said that while the detail focused on the Connellsville area, members of the state police Troop B Vice Unit obtained information during the detail regarding recent burglaries in Uniontown and surrounding areas. Frey said that as a result of the information, officers obtained a search warrant for a home in Uniontown. A team of police officers entered the residence around 9 p.m. Frey said officers found a stolen safe and a stolen handgun from a burglary at Byers Market on Main Street in Uniontown earlier this month.
Evidence also was recovered from three area drugstore burglaries in recent months, Frey said.
Frey said that several thousand pills, including Vicodin and morphine, were found at the home, in addition to Fentanyl patches and heroin.
Frey added that about $2,500 was discovered at the residence, as well as a bank bag from another burglary in the area in recent weeks.
“As a result of this search warrant, at least four burglaries are going to be solved,” Frey said, noting that state police will work in conjunction with Uniontown police to make multiple arrests.
Aside from the items seized at the Uniontown home, Frey said that officers also issued 14 traffic citations, 29 traffic warnings and made three arrests for drunken driving in Connellsville during the patrol Monday evening.
Throughout the evening, the state police Auto Theft Unit also processed more than 800 license plates and were able to recover a stolen all-terrain vehicle during the sweep.
Frey said a Cadillac Escalade was seized during a traffic stop, along with more than $750, which was found by the state police K-9 Unit.
State police troopers from the Uniontown, Waynesburg and Belle Vernon barracks along with members of the state police crime unit in Uniontown, the Troop B Vice Unit, the Auto Theft Unit, the state police K-9 Unit, Connellsville police and the state Parole Board participated in the detail.