Driver damages police cruiser

WAYNESBURG – A Waynesburg man who crashed into a utility pole on North Richhill Street late Saturday night is accused of fighting with borough police officers and damaging a patrol car.
Waynesburg police said they responded to a crash in the 700 block of North Richhill Street shortly before midnight Saturday and found the car driven by Marquell L. Bailey with heavy damage to the driver’s side door.
Neither Bailey nor a woman riding with him was seriously injured, but officers said they could smell alcohol and marijuana on Bailey.
Police also found marijuana paraphernalia in the car.
Officers placed Bailey in handcuffs, but he began to struggle as they put him in a patrol car, police said.
Police said Bailey shouted obscenities at them, refused to get into the car and was even able to get his right hand out of the handcuff.
Police said they were eventually able to get Bailey into the patrol car, but he allegedly ripped a rubber gasket from the rear door and later kicked the side window out of the doorframe.
District Judge Lee Watson arraigned Bailey, 24, of 146 W. Lincoln St., early Sunday morning and he was released on $25,000 bond.
Bailey faces charges of resisting arrest, institutional vandalism, criminal mischief, driving under the influence, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, disorderly conduct and multiple traffic citations.