Police beat July 12
False identification: Joshua Thomas Rodriguez, 24, of 310 Fifth Ave., Crucible, was charged by Cumberland Township police with false identification for allegedly giving his brother’s name to a police officer during a traffic stop early Sunday morning on Route 21 in the township, according to the criminal complaint. Rodriguez allegedly used a false identity to try to conceal several magistrate warrants for his arrest, police said.
Simple assault: Shana Lea Puthuff, 27, of 139 Cedar Ridge Road, Franklin Township, was charged with simple assault and harassment for an incident that happened Friday afternoon, state police said. Puthuff allegedly struck her daughter’s father, Christopher Ramsey, in the face and bit him on the arm, while he was at her residence to pick up the child, police said.
Theft: Justin Lee Gillogly, 20, of 860 Bonar Avenue, Franklin Township, was charged by state police with theft for allegedly stealing a television and selling it for drugs, according to the criminal complaint. Gillogly allegedly took a TV that did not belong to him from an upstairs bedroom at his residence and sold it for cigarettes, marijuana and Subutex, police said.