A woman reported a man known to her committed theft at a construction site in Snyder Township on April 29 between 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
The unidentified woman reported the man who was operating as a business took numerous building materials from a residential construction site. The materials were estimated at $59,000.
Police noted they were continuing their investigation as of Monday.
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An Antis Township business was the victim of a burglary sometime between May 18 and 19.
Police said the suspects broke into Caracciolo Steel & Metal on State Route 4019 by breaking into a front window. The burglars took $20 in cash and 25 of the company’s bankroll checks.
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State police are looking into a case of prowling in Antis Township which happened on May 19 at 12:45 a.m.
The victim reported seeing a tall man standing on the porch of her house on Kerbaugh Road. The prowler was scared off when he observed headlights turning into the driveway.
Police think the suspect parked an ATV across the road from the victim’s house in a wooded area. After he was scared off the property, he returned to the ATV and fled into the woods along the east side of Kerbaugh Road.
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A two-vehicle accident last Friday in Snyder Township left a Bellefonte woman with minor injuries.
The accident happened on State Route 8003, the off ramp of Interstate 99 at the Grazierville exit, shortly before 6 p.m., when 64-year-old Beverly McMurtrie’s vehicle hit a guide rail on the north side of the road while traveling west.
The other driver, 27-year-old Lance Conway of Duncansville, pulled to the left side of McMurtrie’s vehicle to check on her. McMurtrie’s vehicle then hit the right side of Conway’s and went diagonally across the road and hit a guide rail. McMurtrie’s vehicle then traveled back across the road and struck a cement bridge abutment and came to rest in a field on the north side of the road.
Police suspect McMurtrie was suffering from medical problems at the time of the accident. Conway and a passenger, 23-year-old Anthony Geist of Altoona, were both wearing seat belts and were uninjured.
McMurtrie was also wearing a seat belt. Her vehicle had damage to both sides of it.
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Three people, two drivers and a passenger, escaped injury in a two-vehicle accident on State Route 1001, just south of the Tipton intersection in Antis Township on Saturday, shortly before 11 a.m.
A vehicle driven by 50-year-old Joseph Ogershok, Jr. slowed down in the southbound lane of the road due to traffic. A pick-up truck driven by 31-year-old Bradley Clark of Tyrone was driving south behind Ogershok, Jr.’s vehicle and was unable to stop prior to hitting the rear end of it.
Clark’s vehicle had damage to the front end while Ogershok’s Chevy Blazer had rear end damage.
Clark, a passenger in his vehicle, 29-year-old Joyce Stiver of Tyrone and Ogershok were all wearing seat belts and escaped injury.
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A 48-year-old Smithmill man suffered serious injuries in a motorcycle accident on State Route 4015, approximately two-tenths of a mile north of Moser Road in Antis Township on May 21 at 3:35 p.m.
Edward Milton Ross was traveling south on State Route 4015, while rounding a slight curve. He lost control of his motorcycle and left the road and went into a drainage ditch on the east side of the SR 4015.
The bike then traveled out of the ditch into a yard. It continued for a short distance before rolling over. When the motorcycle rolled over, Ross was thrown from the bike. He landed in a drainage ditch about 36 feet from the bike.
Ross was taken to Altoona Hospital by Bellwood Ambulance. Police said he was wearing a helmet.
State police were also assisted on the scene by the Pinecroft Volunteer Fire Company.
