AREA STATE POLICE NEWS

Identity theft

State police are looking into a case of identity theft case victimizing a Potter County man last week.

Troopers at Denton Hill report that someone obtained credit card information belonging to Ronald Schiffler of Harrison Valley and used it to purchase almost $400 worth of items on the internet.

Escapes injury

An Emporium driver escaped injury in a one-vehicle crash Saturday evening on Route 120 in Lumber Township.

According to state police from the Emporium barracks, Kenneth Miller was headed west when his Dodge Dakota went off the road, struck an embankment and rolled over, coming to rest on its roof.

On the rocks

Police in two states are also looking for two men who stole an ice machine from the Gold Country Store in Potter County last Thursday around 5:30 p.m.

The 40-cubic-foot cooler, owned by Annie's Ice of Wellsville, N.Y., held about 60 sacks of ice. The men loaded the cooler onto a white Ford F150 extended cab pickup with New York State plates and headed north on Route 449.

Value of the stolen items was about $1,665. State police from Denton Hill are heading the investigation.

Fuel shortage

Thieves took a full five-gallon red plastic gasoline can from the property of Henry Cusumano on the Cherry Ridge Road in West Branch Township, Potter County, sometime over the past three weeks. The can was being stored outside Cusumano's garage.

Watch your mouth

A McKean County man has been cited for disorderly conduct for an incident Saturday night in the Emergency Department at Charles Cole Memorial Hospital.

State police at Denton Hill have charged 35-year-old Marcus Tampuu of Port Allegany with causing a public inconvenience while being treated by hospital staff by raising his voice and using profanity.

Truck clips fence

A truck driver from Tioga County is facing charges for damaging a gate at Howard's Inc. in Sweden Valley late Monday or early Tuesday.

Franklin Moore of Blossburg was at the wheel of a tractor-trailer that damaged the gate when Moore delivered a shipment to the business at the intersection of Ice Mine Road and Rt. 6.

Charged with DUI

State police charged an Emporium woman with DUI and related traffic offenses Sept. 26.

Police said Connie Andrews, 42, was pulled over for speeding and subsequently found to be intoxicated.