Police Beat Dec. 19
CUMBERLAND
Simple assault charge: Brian Eugene Rush, 46, of 336 Kovalchecks Road, was charged Monday with simple assault and harassment. Cumberland Township police responded to a domestic dispute Sunday between Rush and his wife, Margo, at their home. Margo told police her husband grabbed her face and busted her lip, according to court documents.
Check forged: Tiffany Lynn Wilson, 38, of 694 Crucible Road, Rices Landing, was charged Dec. 7 with forgery, identity theft, theft by deception, receiving stolen property and bad checks after Cumberland Township police said she used a deceased woman’s check to purchase six purses and two shirts in from a township resident in July. Police said the Allegheny County woman died in June and her bank account had been closed shortly after.
MORGAN
Simple assault charge: Tiffany Ann-Marie Harrington, 26, of 16 Circle St., Mather, was charged Sunday with simple assault, terroristic threats and harassment. State police said an argument between Harrington and Ryan Paul Baxter became physical when Harrington asked him to leave Sunday afternoon. Baxter told police Harrington grabbed two knives from the kitchen and he locked himself in the basement.
FRANKLIN
Theft charges: Jessica Jade Raulerson, 34, of 263 E. High St., Waynesburg, was charged Friday with felony access device issued, theft by deception and 14 counts each of theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property. A district attorney’s office detective investigated an incident where Raulerson allegedly misused the debit card of a woman, who relies on Raulerson’s home care. Court documents said Raulerson used the card to make multiple purchases totaling $875.37.