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Wednesday, February 02, 1994     Page: 4A QUICK WORDS: POLICE BLOTTER

WILKES-BARRE — Police on Tuesday morning reported a break-in at a storage
shed at Elias Used Car lot on Hazle and Stanton streets.
   
A tool box, automobile batteries, a battery charger and an air tank were
reported missing.
    Boy reports accident
   
WILKES-BARRE — A 12-year-old boy told police Tuesday morning he was struck
by a car near the intersection of Rose Lane and South Hancock Street.
   
Police reported that Donald Pientka of South Grant Street would be taken
for medical treatment by a family member.
   
The boy said a car traveling west on South Hancock Street slid on the snow
and hit him. The driver of the car stopped to offer aid, but the boy walked
home, police said.
   
Police did not identify the driver and said the woman fulfilled her
obligation by stopping at the scene.