A 12-year-old boy was injured Saturday afternoon in a farming accident in Leola.
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Amos Stoltzfus, 12, son of Levi and Naomi Stoltzfus, of Center Square Road, became caught under a harrow hay baler around 4:15 p.m. The boy was airlifted to Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center with a broken leg and an open wound, his mother reported, but was conscious.
A spokeswoman at Hershey said the boy was listed in critical condition Saturday night.
ACCIDENTS: New Holland police investigated an accident Wednesday in which a vehicle driven by Paula Hutchinson, of the 300 block of Redwell Road, New Holland, collided with a vehicle driven by Joseph Sheesley Jr., Goodville.
Hutchinson turned in front of Sheesley as she was attempting to enter a private driveway, police said.
Sheesley was taken to Ephrata Community Hospital by New Holland Ambulance, police said.
Hutchinson and Sheesley were being sent summonses for, respectively, a turning violation and driving while under suspension, police said.
Both vehicles required towing.
•Traveling west on Hopeland Road just west of Kleinfeltersville Road, Linda K. Stauffer, 59, of Ephrata, lost control of her car on the wet roadway, drove off the north side and struck a tree at 12:10 a.m. Friday, state police at Ephrata said.
BURGLARY: State police at Lancaster reported that a diagnostic scan kit, an impact wrench and a DeWalt saw were stolen from DR Auto Body, 110 Hensel Road, East Drumore Township, between 12:01 and 7:30 a.m. Saturday.
Anyone with information may contact police at 299-7650.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: A business sign at Katie's Kitchen Restaurant, 200 Hartman Bridge Road, Strasburg Township, was spray-painted sometime between Thursday and Friday, state police at Lancaster reported.
DOMESTIC: A 45-year-old mother and her 17-year-old son were both charged with harassment after a domestic dispute in the 400 block of Twin County Road, Caernarvon Township, at 2:15 p.m. Saturday, state police at Ephrata said. Police allege the mother bit the son on the shoulder and the son choked his mother.
DRINKING: David M. Chidley, 26, of the 4200 block of Lincoln Highway, Parkesburg, was arrested for public drunkenness at 3:45 a.m. Saturday at the Sheetz store, 698 W. Main St., New Holland police said.
DUI: Bradley Hall, 39, Christiana, was stopped by state police at Lancaster at 12:53 a.m. Saturday on Chestnut Road, south of Route 30, Salisbury Township, for traffic violations. Police said Hall was under the influence of alcohol and was arrested.
FIGHT: A street brawl involving an estimated 50 people was reported in the 400 block of South Shippen Street around 8:20 p.m. Saturday.
Lt. Michael Bradley, of city police, said the fight moved to the vicinity of Howard Avenue but was quickly broken up. Bradley said two girls were arrested.
SOLICITATION CHARGES: A 13-year-old Earl Township boy is being charged for attempting several times to solicit sex from a 5-year-old boy April 26, New Holland police said last week.
The younger boy was visiting the older boy in his home at the time of the alleged incident, police said.
The criminal solicitation charges were approved by the county district attorney's office, according to police.
RETAIL THEFT: A 16-year-old Lancaster girl was charged with retail theft after she tried to take $41.98 worth of merchandise at Burlington Coat Factory at 5:29 p.m. Friday, East Lampeter Township police said.
STOLEN: A woman's purse was stolen while she attended a party in the 700 block of South State Street in Ephrata at 12:30 a.m. Saturday, Ephrata police said. The purse was recovered, but $130 cash and personal items were missing, police said.
THEFT: Michael P. Marshall, 29, of the 500 block of Meetinghouse Road, Gap, was charged with theft for taking a purse containing $200 from a woman Wednesday in New Holland, borough police said.
Marshall was at the victim's home in the 900 block of West Main Street when he took the purse and fled on foot, police said.
•Jessica Oberholtzer, 19, of the 500 block of West Market Street was charged with retail theft and possession of a controlled substance Friday, East Lampeter Township police said.
Police allege she tried to take $42.93 worth of merchandise at the Burlington Coat Factory, 2090 Lincoln Highway East, and was found in possession of the prescription drug Suboxone, a marijuana pipe and needles.
THEFT TRY: Employees of A.B.C. Groff Inc. reported the attempted theft of a $6,000 Zero-Turn riding mower at 11:23 a.m. Friday, New Holland police said.
The mower was removed from the lot and found in the driveway of the business at 110 S. Railroad Ave., police said.
WARRANTS: Adolfo Villegas-Huertes Jr., 47, of the first block of Prospect Avenue, West Grove, was picked up on a bench warrant from the Coatesville District Attorney's office for writing bad checks Saturday, police said.
He was stopped in the 2900 block of Lincoln Highway East for an equipment violation at 3:06 a.m., police said.
•Shelby Brown, 27, of Kleinfeltersville, was picked up on a bench warrant during a traffic stop on West Main Street at Reading Road in Ephrata Borough at 7:30 a.m. Friday, Ephrata police said.
Brown was taken before District Justice Gere Willwerth and released, according to police.
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