Avalon Police are continuing to investigate a traffic accident on Ohio River Boulevard on Feb. 3 in which injuries were reported. The accident involved vehicles and a motorcycle.

Officers also investigated an accident on California Avenue that day. The driver told police that the vehicle’s gas pedal stuck and the car hit a utility pole.

Rented items appeared to be popular choices for burglars in Avalon during the past week, with two different incidents involving the reported theft of goods leased from a rental center.

A North Home Avenue resident reported Oct. 1 that someone had broken into her apartment. In addition to a quantity of expensive jewelry and purses, two rented coffee tables and a rented flat screen television were reported stolen.

Avalon Police began the Megan Law notification of schools, businesses and residents after being informed on June 7 that a violent sex offender was residing at the Avalon Motel. Later that day, police were informed that Timothy Mitchell, 27, no known address, had moved out.

A burglary at an automotive business on california Avenue was reported June 5. A plate glass window had been smashed to get inside the shop.

Another 60 stamp bags of heroin were taken off the streets of Avalon and a suspected dealer arrested.

Some 44 bags of suspected heroin, along with marijuana, paraphernalia and stolen electronics, were recovered when the Avalon Police entered a room at the Avalon Motel on Jan. 5.

Police say they were dispatched to the motel to check on the welfare of William Clokey, 20, of Ohio River Boulevard, Avalon. They found him in a room with a woman later identified as Jaclyn Handlow, 20, of Roosevelt Road, 15237.

Officers also found the heroin, marijuana and a bag containing two spoons and three syringes, as well as two laptop computers and gaming systems determined to have been stolen.

A Bellevue woman was arrested on two outstanding bench warrants in Avalon. Police say that Amanda L. Veneziale of Irwin Avenue was in possession of suspected heroin and paraphernalia when she was taken into custody on California Avenue on June 1.

Property was reported stolen from a vehicle on Marie Avenue on June 1.

Avalon and Bellevue firefighters responded to an electrical fire in the bar at the Avalon motel on June 3. Water leaking into electrical lines caused the problem.

Avalon and Allegheny County police were called to the scene of an apparent fatal heroin overdose on South Ohio Street on April 4. Police say the 25-year-old man was dead when they arrived. Officers found 17 empty stamp bags of heroin.

Avalon and county police also are jointly investigating an alleged sexual assault reported to have occurred at the Avalon Motel on April 1. No arrests have been made.

The burglary of a vacant house on Marie Avenue was reported April 7. Three rifles and a silver tea set were reported stolen.

The theft of water meters from two Avalon properties created potentially dangerous basement flooding situations.

The owner of a California Avenue building discovered March 6 that someone had broken into the basement and stolen the meter, leaving water filling the basement.

The same condition was discovered at a vacant Harrison Avenue home on March 5. Neighbors called police after hearing water running in the house.

In other news from Avalon Police, April Jackson, 39, of Bellevue, was charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana during a traffic stop on March 7.

Police are still looking for the man believed responsible for stabbing a Pittsburgh woman multiple times at the Avalon Motel.

Michael Oliver, 23, of Natrona Heights, was able to evade officers in a foot chase into the woods near the McDonald’s restaurant on Route 65 on July 17. Police say he stabbed a woman as many as eight times while they were sharing a room at the motel. She was taken to the hospital for treatment, and released by the next day.

In other news from Avalon Police, a Pioneer radio was reported stolen from a vehicle parked at the Rusty Dory on Route 65 on July 17.