These items have been collected from various police departments.

Butler Police

12:44 a.m. today — Police said they found marijuana in a Butler man’s car spotted running a flashing red light on Fourth Avenue. Officers stopped the car in the 100 block of Mercer Road.

The driver, Robert J. Draper, 38, it turned out, also had a suspended license, according to a police report.

A search of Draper’s vehicle turned up a marijuana pipe in the center console and a plastic box containing suspected marijuana wedged between the driver’s seat and the console.

Draper faces charges of possession of a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, driving while suspended and not stopping at a flashing red light. Police noted that Draper has two prior convictions for driving with a suspended license.

9:26 p.m. Monday — Two people, one a child, were hurt in a one-car crash on Center Avenue. Stephanie A. Barron, 37, of Butler lost control of the car traveling around a left-hand curve near East Boyd Avenue and struck a utility pole.

Barron and her passenger, 12-year-old Carley Barron of Butler, both were taken to Butler Memorial Hospital with minor injuries. Police said neither was wearing a seat belt.

12:16 p.m. Saturday — A fight at a downtown store landed two Butler men in trouble with the law.

Police were called to the Dollar General store on North Main Street after Douglas J. Lambert, 20, and Donald J. Hutchinson, 23, allegedly got into a tussle during which items were knocked off shelves.

When an employee advised them police were on the way, the men ran out of the store. Officers caught one suspect at Cedar and Cunningham streets and the other suspect on South Monroe Street near the car wash.

Each man blamed the other for starting the fight that damaged several food items and a cooler at the store. Damage was estimated at $26.70.

Lambert and Hutchinson are both charged with disorderly conduct and criminal mischief.

Butler Township Police

2:33 a.m. Sunday — Train traffic was temporarily shut down after a crash left one car upside down and disabled on a set of railroad tracks on Delwood Road near the Route 422 overpass. Scott Martin, 25, of Butler was injured in the one-vehicle wreck.

Martin lost control of his 2004 Acura coupe while approaching a right curve. The car struck a small embankment and became airborne. It landed and rolled over one time before ending on its roof on top of the tracks, owned by the Canadian National Railway.

Police said Martin managed to get out of the car on his own but fled without reporting the wreck. Officers later found him at Butler Memorial Hospital where he went for treatment of injuries.

Police had to notify the railroad to stop any passing trains until the wrecked car could be removed from the tracks.

Martin is charged with driving with a suspended license, driving too fast for conditions, careless driving, failing to immediately notify police of an accident and abandoning a vehicle on private property.

Sunday — Police during the weekend received a number of reports of unlocked cars being entered and items taken. The thefts happened Saturday and Sunday throughout the township. Owners are reminded to lock their vehicles or not to leave valuables in the vehicles.

11:20 p.m. Friday — Kyle Nieves, 22, of Greenfield, Lackawanna County, was nabbed throwing snowballs at cars traveling Route 422 at the Route 8 exit. Police cited him for disorderly conduct.

1:28 p.m. Thursday — Amanda K. Platt, 25, of Butler, a Walmart employee, was caught allegedly taking 56 items at the store in Butler Commons. The pilfered merchandise totaled $184.84, according to a police report. Platt is charged with retail theft.

Thursday — Krystal Ann Otto of Butler was nabbed allegedly shoplifting about $50 in merchandise at the Butler Commons’ Walmart. While investigating that case, police identified Otto as the suspected shoplifter of $5.96 in merchandise on March 8 at the same store.

Otto faces two separate counts of retail theft.

Thursday — Jennifer L. Soose, 34, of Butler is accused of shoplifting $78.80 in merchandise from the Walmart at Butler Commons. Soose, who has a prior shoplifting arrest, is charged with misdemeanor retail theft.

Zelienople Police

March 13 — Police charged a former employee with using a company credit card for personal use. Emily R. Rau, 30, of Allison Park, Allegheny County, allegedly used the card owned by Power Conversion Technologies to make 26 separate online purchases between Feb. 2 and March 9.

An executive for the company on Halstead Boulevard stumbled onto the alleged theft scheme earlier this month while fixing a problem with the suspect’s e-mail account at work, according to court documents.

The executive opened an e-mail from Walmart and found that Rau had made a purchase with the company credit card at the store. The item was delivered to the defendant’s home. That company reviewed its credit card account and turned up the other alleged fraudulent charges to Amazon, PayPal and Walmart.

In all, the unauthorized purchases totaled $1,045.37, documents said.

Rau is charged with 26 felony counts of access device fraud and 26 misdemeanor counts each of theft and receiving stolen property.

State Police, Butler

2:05 a.m. Sunday — Michael C. King, 33, of Chicora was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence on Route 138 south of Thomsontown Road in Clay Township.