Police investigating stolen trailer,

motorized cycles

LEWISTOWN — Lewistown Police Department officers are looking to identify two males who were allegedly involved in the theft of a utility trailer from the 800 block of West Fifth Street in Lewistown at 9:36 a.m. on Oct. 1, according to a release issued on Friday, Officers also received additional reports of five different motorized cycles, including dirt bikes and mini bikes, which were stolen from several locations across Lewistown, the report said. Officers obtained surveillance images of the subjects stealing the items, the report said, and surveillance images depict a dark or black SUV, believed to be a GMC Acadia, leaving the area of the trailer theft with the stolen trailer attached. Officers also obtained surveillance from several locations of the same SUV driving around town with the trailer and stolen dirt bikes loaded onto the trailer, the report said. Officers and detective have obtained daytime surveillance images of the subjects and used facial recognition software of the suspects, the report said. The facial recognition yielded a match for one of the subjects, who has an extensive criminal history and active arrest warrants from Mifflin County for unrelated criminal acts, the report said, and officers are attempting to positively identify the second subject . Anyone with information is encouraged to call police at (717) 248-6716.

Police seeking information

about thefts from vehicles

LEWISTOWN — The Lewistown Police Department is encouraging anyone with information about numerous reports of thefts from motor vehicles on the south side of Lewistown Borough, mainly in the areas of South Wayne and South Grand streets and surrounding areas at 8:51 a.m. on Sept. 28, according to a press release issued on Friday. Most reports were for small amounts of cash and coins stolen from within the vehicles, the report said, and one resident reported their vehicle was locked however there were no signs of forced entry. Several other vehicles that were entered were unlocked, the report said. Officers obtained video surveillance of a subject entering a resident’s vehicle, but the video can’t be used for positive identification, the report said. If anyone with information should call (717) 248-6716.

Lewistown woman

charged with possession

LEWISTOWN — A 64-year-old Lewistown woman was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia while gathering her belongings after an alleged domestic dispute on the 300 block of Bratton Avenue at 3:58 p.m. on Sept. 27, according to a release issued by the Lewistown Police Department on Friday. After arriving on scene, officers observed a meth pipe sticking out of Cheryl A. Reed’s purse, the report said.

Lewistown woman

charged for drug offenses

LEWISTOWN — Florene Lisa Shirey, 59, of Lewistown, was charged with drug offenses after Lewistown Police Department officers found her to be in possession of methamphetamine, methamphetamine paraphernalia, and marijuana at 4:46 p.m. on Sept. 27, according to a release issued on Friday. Officers were on patrol when they observed a woman — later identified as Shirey — in the dumpster at Lewistown Liquidators, located at 75 E. Hale St. in Lewistown, the report said. Shirey exhibited nervous demeanor, the report said.

Juvenile charged with

burglary, underage drinking

LEWISTOWN — Lewistown Police Department officers received a complaint from the first block of Chestnut Street in Lewistown from a

16-year-old juvenile who was complaining that he was struck in the face with a broom handle by another subject at 9:58 p.m. on Sept. 30, according to a release issued on Friday. Officers spoke with involved parties and discovered that the juvenile tried confronting an 18-year-old male on Central Avenue, but the older male would not answer the door, the report said. Police said the juvenile learned that the male was visiting his girlfriend on the first block of Chestnut Street, and the juvenile went to this location armed with a shovel and began yelling confronting the male inside. The 18-year-old opened the door and the juvenile entered the residence, the report said, and the juvenile was shoved outside and used his shovel to prevent the door from being closed. The 18-year-old struck the juvenile in the face with a broom handle causing a laceration, the report said, and the juvenile left but then returned and was greeted by a female resident. The juvenile pushed his way back into the residence but was shoved back outside. Officers contacted the juvenile, who was found to have consumed alcohol while underage and was under Mifflin County Juvenile Probation, the report said. The juvenile was charged with burglary, underage drinking, and other crimes, the report said.