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8:27 p.m. Tuesday — Dakota Lynn Martinez, 26, of Butler was arrested on a felony warrant at the Lafayette Building on South Main Street where police were called for a report of a loud party and possible drug activity.

Officers found Martinez at an apartment that smelled of marijuana. She was searched and found with 11 stamp bags of suspected heroin and seven hypodermic needles, according to court documents.

Police already had an arrest warrant for Martinez in connection with a break-in last month at a city home.

The defendant in that case is accused of entering a house in the 300 block of Third Street though a side window at 5:46 p.m. March 26. A surveillance camera captured her on footage, documents said.

Martinez knows the occupant, Bernie Fitzpatrick, police said, but she did not have his permission to be there.

Fitzpatrick told police that he was also missing two rings, for which the suspect is charged with stealing.

Martinez was arraigned on felony charges of burglary and trespass and a misdemeanor charge of theft in the break-in case.

In the other case, she is charged with misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.

She was placed in the Butler County Prison on $50,000 bail following arraignment.

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Monday — Jan E. Fisher Sr., 59, of Lyndora was charged with being more than three times over the legal limit for alcohol following a traffic stop last month on Hansen Avenue.

An officer about 12:14 a.m. March 20 spotted Fisher, who police knew to be a suspended driver, according to court documents. The suspect eventually stopped upon making it to his home in the 700 block of Hansen Avenue.

Police said Fisher reeked of alcohol and he admitted drinking. He was arrested after failing field sobriety tests and taken to Butler Memorial Hospital for a blood test.

Toxicology results showed his blood-alcohol level was 0.275 percent. A level of 0.08 percent is considered intoxicated under state law.

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11:30 p.m. Tuesday — Rebecca L. Jamison, 44, of Petrolia lost control of her car on Annisville Road about two miles north of Route 268 in Parker Township, crashing into a tree and traveling over an embankment before hitting a ditch.

Jamison told police that the crash happened when a deer jumped onto the road. She was not hurt but her car had to be towed. She was cited for disregarding traffic lanes and failing to immediately notify police of an accident.

4:10 a.m. Tuesday — Derek D. Stewart, 35, of Concord Township was arrested after he allegedly entered a neighbor’s home on Zion Church Road without the owner’s permission.

The victim told police that after he let his dog out, Stewart walked in the home through the front door, according to court documents. The homeowner confronted the defendant, telling him to leave. The suspect walked out the same door.

But after he left, the defendant began “walking up and down the homeowner’s driveway,” documents said.

Police found the suspect at his home, where he was arrested. Also there was Azza M. Gaines, 37, who lives with Stewart. But when asked for her identification, documents said, Gaines gave a bogus name.

Police later identified Gaines, who was wanted on a warrant in Warren County. She, too, was arrested on the warrant.

Stewart was arraigned on a felony charge of trespass and a misdemeanor charge of loitering and prowling at night. He was released on $10,000 unsecured bail following arraignment.

Monday — Police obtained a felony arrest warrant for Jonathan R. Shuler, 29, of Clearfield Township in connection with the Christmas Day theft of guns during a break-in at a home in Clearfield Township.

He is charged in the warrant with burglary, theft and trespass.

Shuler is already being held in the Butler County Prison on unrelated burglary and simple assault charges. He was booked Feb. 2 into the prison on $200,000 bail.

In the recent case, according to court documents, one of the homeowners at the house on Criley Lane noticed Shuler between 1 and 1:30 a.m. Dec. 25 on their property. The suspect was seen around the garage before fleeing into the woods.

The victim reported hearing an all-terrain vehicle in the woods and shined a spotlight in that direction, and saw Shuler on the ATV. Police noted that the victim knows Shuler and the property is “well lit.”

Later, police said, the homeowners discovered missing from the garage were two guns — a Remington .30-06 pump-action rifle and a Mossberg 12-gauge slug gun. The firearms are valued at a combined $900.

During a previous interview with police investigating several other break-ins he allegedly committed in the area, Shuler admitted “that he could travel to and from burglary scenes on an ATV,” documents said.

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