Police Beat Aug. 21
CUMBERLAND
False identification charge: Brian Keith Karadavut, 31, of 64 Second St., Crucible, was charged with false identification to police and possession of drug paraphernalia Sunday after Cumberland Township police said they stopped a car on Ceylon Road and Karadavut, who was the passenger, provided an alias instead of his legal name when asked for identification. A glass smoking pipe was found in the passenger area, along with a digital scale near the center console, police said. Karadavut was taken to the Greene County jail on outstanding warrants.
DUNKARD
Receiving stolen property charges: Jacob Allen Shields, 25, and Carrie Lee Riley, 37, no addresses, face receiving stolen property charges after state police received a report Sunday that a vehicle stolen in Morgantown, W.Va., was pulled off the road along Walnut Hill Road in Dunkard Township. Police said Shields and Riley were both in the back seat when troopers located the vehicle. Both are being held at the Greene County jail on $20,000 bond.
FRANKLIN
Contraband charges: Greene County jail inmates William R. Burghy, 33, of 390 Mt. Morris Road, Mt. Morris, and Kody Alan Scott, 22, of 206 S. Washington St., Waynesburg, both face charges of contraband and possession of a controlled substance. Burghy also was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. State police received a report Sunday Burghy and Scott were passing items back and forth between their cells the day before. During a search, jail staff said they located a white powdery substance in a plastic bag in a toilet paper roll in Burghy’s cell. Police said a field test indicated the substance was Suboxone, and field testing also indicated that a white powdered substance in an open sugar packet in Scott’s cell was Suboxone.
Food stamp fraud charge: Pamela L. Parry, 43, of 302 W. Roy Furman Highway, Wind Ridge, was charged with fraud to obtain food stamps Friday. The state Office of the Inspector General alleges in the criminal complaint that Parry failed to report her live-in son’s income, resulting in $3,024 in overpaid benefits.