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Drunken men reportedly knocked at Pa. police station

UNIONTOWN, Pa.

Authorities in southwestern Pennsylvania say they charged two men with public drunkenness after the two knocked on a police station door.

A Uniontown police report says 30-year-old Alan Scritchfield of Uniontown and 30-year-old Peter Dominick of McClellandtown came to the police station about 9 p.m. Sunday.

A police sergeant says Dominick was slurring his words, and Scritchfield was drinking out of a plastic cup. Asked what was in it, Scritchfield reportedly told police, “Alcohol, Crown Royal,” before saying he was drunk.

Scritchfield’s home phone is disconnected. The Associated Press could not locate a listed number for Dominick.

Police say they subdued Dominick with a stun gun after he realized he was being arrested and tried to run away.

Assault charge reduced after victim apologizes

CINCINNATI

A Las Vegas man who pleaded guilty in a Cincinnati beating was sentenced on a reduced charge after the victim apologized to his attacker and told prosecutors he can be belligerent when he drinks.

A Hamilton County Common Pleas judge on Tuesday sentenced Michael Taylor to 18 months for aggravated assault.

The prosecutor agreed to a reduced charge from the original felonious assault.

The 56-year-old victim, Robert Meehan, said he didn’t remember what happened and apologized in court to Taylor for the way things turned out, saying he had a worse criminal record than Taylor, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Wednesday.

“This is probably the most ironic case I’ve ever had,” Judge Charles Kubicki Jr. said. “The victim apologized to the defendant for assaulting him.”

67-inch gator killed by DNR in W.Va. wildlife area

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va.

State officials are trying to determine how a 67-inch alligator took up residence in a western West Virginia wildlife-management area.

The animal was found at the Upper Mud Wildlife Management Area in Lincoln County when Division of Natural Resources officials responded to a call from fishermen who reported seeing the alligator.

“There he was on the bank, eating a pretty-good-sized bass,” DNR Wildlife Resources Chief Curtis Taylor said Wednesday.

The alligator was killed Saturday because it was considered a threat to humans, he said.

“None of my guys have the skill or equipment to capture an alligator,” he said. “An alligator could never survive the winter in West Virginia — never. Rather than let it suffer a slow death, I think we did the right thing.”

Alligators are normally found from Texas to the North Carolina coast.

Associated Press