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Police briefs

April 09, 2008

Incidents reported to Washington County Sheriff's Department



The following incidents were reported to the Washington County Sheriff's Department on Tuesday:

· Someone broke into a shed in the 9000 block of Garis Shop Road; nothing was taken, reported at 10 a.m.,

· $830 was stolen from a home in the 19000 block of Marble Quarry Road, reported at 7 p.m.

· Theft of an 18-inch gnome from a home in the 12000 block of Walnut Point Road, reported at 9 p.m.




Greencastle man charged after 723 counterfeit DVDs seized



GREENCASTLE, Pa. -- The alleged sale of a counterfeit DVD to an undercover Pennsylvania State Police trooper led to charges Tuesday, police said.

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Kevin Allen Burcker, 36, no fixed address, was being held this morning at the Franklin County Jail on $25,000 bond, a jail official said.

Burcker was taken into custody at the Truck Stop Car Wash in Greencastle shortly after he allegedly sold a counterfeit DVD to the officer, Police said.

Seized were 723 counterfeit DVDs along with marijuana packaged for sale, drug paraphernalia and $887 in cash.

Charges against Burcker include two counts involving the counterfeit DVDs, and one count each of possession of illegal drugs and the manufacture/delivery of marijuana, jail officials said.




Wallet reported stolen at Waynesboro Area YMCA



WAYNESBORO, Pa. -- A Mont Alto, Pa., woman reported her wallet stolen from a locker at the Waynesboro Area YMCA on Friday, April 4, Waynesboro police said.

Tammy Scott put her purse in a women's locker for 45 minutes that afternoon, police said.




Waynesboro man charged with trying to pass phony prescription



WAYNESBORO, Pa. -- A Waynesboro man allegedly tried to pass a phony prescription for Percocet at Savage Family Pharmacy on Monday.

Waynesboro police said Larry Dehart Jr., 37, of 7916 Tarman Spring Road, altered a prescription for Motrin using a white liquid to cover the ink.

When police arrived, they allegedly found a plastic tube with white powder in Dehart's possession.

He has been charged with attempting to obtain possession of a controlled substance by fraud and possession of drug paraphernalia.




Man charged in theft of Earnhardt cutout in Frederick



FREDERICK, Md. - A Monrovia, Md., man was was charged Monday in the March 12 theft of a cardboard cutout of late NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt from a convenience store in Frederick, Maryland State Police said in a news release.

Johnnie Murrah, 42, of 4703 Green Valley Road, was charged with theft less than $100 via a criminal summons, police said.

The Wawa store at 5833 Ballenger Creek Pike was auctioning the 5-foot-tall cutout to benefit Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore when it was taken March 12, police said.

It was returned to the store April 2, police said.

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