Police Probe Car Break-Ins, Thefts In Butler Co.

Heroin and crack heads.
Hey... commisioners don't cut deputy jobs !
UTILIZE THEM ! YOU FUGGING MORONS !

Lock your car doors! You friggin morons!

Vigilante wrote:

Heroin and crack heads.
Hey... commisioners don't cut deputy jobs !
UTILIZE THEM ! YOU FUGGING MORONS !

There are aprox 23 city police officers. Get them out of A+ and on patrol.

There were similar incidents in Butler City around the hospital last summer with garages and cars being broken into. I wonder if the circus has just pulled up stakes and gone to a new location?

I hope the state police and city police share information on such crimes. One thing watching Cold Case and other Crime dramas while recovering from colds last winter taught me was that information often doesn't cross jurisdictions.

23 officers. do you think they all work all the time? idiot.

It might be important to note that the break-ins were not in the city, but rather in Oakland Township, which is covered by the Pennsylvania State Police.

State police believe a man arrested for driving under the influence of marijuana also stole more than 200 items from vehicles in the past two months in Butler County.

Adam Harris, 27, of Connoquenessing, is in the Butler County Jail on drunk driving and theft charges. It's not clear if he has an attorney.

Police say they stopped him Friday about 1 a.m. and then searched his home after they found tools in his car that could be used to break into vehicles.

Police say they found more than 200 items including firearms, money, medical supplies, a prom dress and a curling iron reported stolen in five county municipalities in recent weeks. The items are worth more than $20,000 total.

Looks like the state cracked the case... Good job troopers.

moron wrote:

23 officers. do you think they all work all the time? idiot.

I don't think ANY of them work ANY of the time. Still alot of break ins on the west end. Vandalism to vehicles ect.

23 officers; 24 hours a day; about 6 per shift; just can't be everywhere all the time. we are lucky to have them at all. lock your car doors.

do the math wrote:

23 officers; 24 hours a day; about 6 per shift; just can't be everywhere all the time. we are lucky to have them at all. lock your car doors.

AND carry a firearm!

More "Concerned citizens" who have all the answers, and none of the knowledge. The City police works 4-5 cops per shift. 1 of them is at the station answering the phone, leaving 3 or 4 to patrol the city. Of those 3-4, one is a superviser that does not have to do anything. Now, what do we have? 1-2 cops on patrol. Now, when the community calls them for anything and everything, can they actually patrol the city and guarantee the safety of our property?
I have it on good info that the current mayor and chief have promoted their best friends that did not deserve a promotion, and then several never have done nothing cops to even things out. What's left? The morale in the dept is so low it crunches underfoot!
Lock your doors people! Bad guys are everywhere, and they want your stuff!

would like to know where you get your good info. you are totally incorrect. promoted their best friends? wow.

There are car break-ins in the City all the time. Most of them are unlocked cars. Those who want to critical of the City Police please enlighten us all on how to stop this since you are obviously so knowledgeable about these type of things. Anyone who has driven through the city at night should know that there is constant foot traffic all hours of the day and night. Should the police go all Gestapo and stop every person that chooses to walk anywhere every time the sun goes down? Or maybe they should spend their shifts making sure that everyone locks their car doors. Correct me if I am wrong, but 3 or 4 cars cannot possibly be on 100+ miles of road at one time. Maybe they should hire 200 new officrs and put one on every street 24 hrs a day. Or people could just lock their car doors. I live in the country and lock my car doors in my driveway if I run into the house for 30 seconds. Get real people.

Chester wrote:

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I don't think ANY of them work ANY of the time. Still alot of break ins on the west end. Vandalism to vehicles ect.

I don't who works or doesn't work, but I do know that all of us have to take more responsibility for ourselves and our belongings. Lock your car no matter where it is. Lock your house. Stay off of the streets especially at night. No matter how old you are "Do not talk to strangers". Stay home at night when not at work. If you do go out, let a family know where you are going and with whom you are going. And girls, don't pick up guys that you don't know. And guys don't hit on women so much, do it in a gentleman fashion if you want to meet a certain gal. We all have to take responsibility for ourselves, our actions and our belongings. I do, and so far it works. Of course always report anything suspicious. If we go out and booze, chances are one of 2 things will happen; 1. We will get into trouble or 2. trouble will find you. Boozing, partying with drugs of course just to have a good time, is probably a great way to set ourselves up for a future disaster. As far as thieves, protect your belongings and report a problem always.Too bad life has gotten to this, but it has.

thank god we have state troopers to back up the city police, in a joke of a town called butler pa.
the whole town is totally distored, something is definately in the water here. so sad to see a town made up of mostly non thinking people, its functional difficulties are so obvious. the streets are covered with litter rarely swept by the city, nothing for the kids, but a nice new prison, the most expensive new construction in the city, that shows you the direction butler is headed, nothing for the kids, except a jail they will be paying for for years to come, come one come all to the greatest show on earth .

Butler has some non thinking morons? Ever checked out Saxonburg???

Don't you see? Butler has invested in the future of the children. The new prison will be their future home!

I agree with the folks who point out that each individual has to be responsible for their own safety and their own security in property. Lock your car and house doors. The police cannot be there to hold your hand and walk you across the street. Quit blaming the crime problem on the police and adress the social/cultural problems that are the root of crime. Oh, and just to let you know, there is mothing "in the water" here in Butler. We need to encourage a sense of civic pride and duty in our residents.

keep telling yourself that.... or maybe open your eyes and see butler for what it is, hard to have pride in a city over run with addicts and decay regardless of whats really in that water no thinking goes on in that town. butler pa what a joke