Crime Blotter: Women Charged with Felonies - Aggravated Assault, Retail Theft

Woman Charged With Public Drunkenness, Aggravated Assault

A Butler woman is facing multiple charges after police answered a call July 17 to remove her from the Two Bit Tavern in Richland Township, according to a police report.

Shari D. Drissler, 51, of Butler was charged with a felony count of aggravated assault; a misdemeanor count of resisting arrest; and summary offenses of harassment, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 23 before Magisterial District Judge Regis Welsh Jr.

When police arrived at the bar on Route 8 around 3:45 p.m., the bartender pointed to a female lying on her back on the floor near the pool table, the police report states.

After police asked the woman for her identification, "she took her Pennsylvania driver's license from the right side of her bra and put it on the left side," according to the police report.

When the officer asked the woman whom to call to pick her up, the woman replied by cursing, police said.

When he asked her a second time, she again told the officer in foul language to get away from her "and while still on her back she began to kick the reporting officer," the police report said.

Drissler resisted when the officer handcuffed her, police said.

During the struggle, her driver's license fell from beneath her shirt and the officer identified her she was identified as Shari Drissler. The officer again asked her to whom she could be released.

 “Ms. Drissler responded by spitting at the reporting officer," the report said.

Police took her to the Northern Regional Police station on Pearce Mill Road in Pine Township, and then to the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh, the report said.

Gibsonia Woman Charged with Retail Theft From Walmart

A Gibsonia woman will be formally arraigned Sept. 7 in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on a felony charge of attempting to steal merchandise from the Walmart in Richland Township, police said.

Amanda K. Schmittlein, 31, is facing a felony charge because she has been convicted twice already with prior retail thefts, police and court records show.

She was charged July 16 with attempting to steal 31 items valued at $190.88, the police report stated. According to the police report, Schmittlein removed security tags from the items and tried to leave the store before a security officer stopped her.

Police took her to the Northern Regional Police Station and then to the county jail.

Computer, Bluetooth Stolen from Vehicle

Someone stole a Dell Latitude laptop computer and a BlueAnt Bluetooth from an unlocked vehicle while it was parked in the owner's Richland Township driveway, police said.

Kurt Hundertmark told police the items were stolen between 5 p.m. July 20 and 6:50 a.m. July 21 from his Chevrolet Trailblazer outside his home on Sandy Hill Road.

The Dell Laptop computer, which was inside a black fabric carrying case, belongs to Hundertmark's employer, Peoples Natural Gas Co., the police report stated.

The Dell is valued at $1,000 and the Blue Ant at $120, according to the police report. Other items of value inside the vehicle were not touched, police said. 

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