Clymer Borough Police report drug charges filed in separate incidents last week.
In the first, on Thursday afternoon, police were completing an investigation into a wanted person at an address in the 400 block of Franklin Street when drug paraphernalia was observed. A search warrant was obtained, and that evening officers discovered a glass pipe filled with suspected marijuana, baggies, pipes, scales, straws, residue, and razors used in the packaging of drugs, and a bag containing a small amount of suspected methamphetamine. The meth was in the bedroom of Michael Shirley. He and Richard Shirley are both facing charges.
The second incident happened on Saturday night, just before midnight. Police were called for a fight on the roadway on Penn Street. Four people were there and one of them, 54-year-old Thomas Heinle of Spring Church, Armstrong County, was agitated and standing on the street.
A man told police that Heinle had just assaulted a woman who was inside a vehicle. The woman had black pavement marks on her hands and a lump on her head. She told the officers that she and Heinle had been fighting over a cell phone he had bought her when he picked her up and slammed her down onto the pavement. Police observed a digital scale with a white powdery residue near the center console in the vehicle. They then found several bags, all of them with documents with Heinle’s name on them, along with a glass meth pipe, a plastic straw, and a torch lighter.
Police took Heinle in, and at the police station they found a plastic straw in his pocket, which he said he used to snort meth, and three prescription pills. He was charged with simple assault, possession of drug paraphernalia, misbranding a controlled substance, harassment, and public drunkenness.
In yet another case, Clymer police also report charges of aggravated harassment by prisoner, resisting arrest, and criminal mischief against a juvenile girl after she spit in an officer’s face while he was serving a warrant.
