Man arrested for evading police

A Lancaster County man visiting friends in State College this weekend was arrested Saturday morning, four hours after police said he drove away from State College Police Department officers in the middle of a traffic stop.

Justin Stauffer, 19, was pulled over after police spotted him driving the wrong direction down West College Avenue. After giving an officer his name, police said Stauffer sped away from the scene. After a brief pursuit, officers decided to call off the chase because of the danger it might pose to the crowded downtown area, police said.

Police arrested Stauffer at 7:30 a.m. when they encountered him in his broken down car on the side of a road in State College. He was charged with fleeing and evading police, driving with a suspended license and several other traffic violations, police said. Stauffer was arraigned in front of Centre County Judge Jonathan Grine and placed in Centre County Correctional facility in lieu of $10,000 bail.

Police: Man arrested for burglary, theft

The State College Police Department arrested a visiting Lancaster County man after police say he entered a downtown apartment, and during his stay, enjoyed pornography on a resident's computer and stole a digital camera.

A man sleeping at his girlfriend's apartment at 205 E. Beaver Ave. awoke around 5 a.m. and saw Thomas Reynolds, 23, sitting in front the computer watching pornographic movies and masturbating, police said.

Reynolds fled on foot after the man told him to leave the apartment. The man then realized his digital camera had been taken from the top of the television set and proceeded to chase Reynolds down the street. The victim eventually caught up with Reynolds at the 100 block of East Beaver Avenue and waved down a police car.

Reynolds was arrested and taken to the Centre County Correctional Facility in lieu of $15,000 bail. He is charged with burglary, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property and indecent exposure, police said.