• A Cary woman was charged March 10 with assault with a deadly weapon and injury to real property. Police said Sarah Jane Gibbs, 48, of 8606 Chapel Hill Road, allegedly threatened a man inside her residence by waving a kitchen knife at him. Gibbs also reportedly smashed two window panes in a French door at the house.

• Loss prevention workers at a K-Mart store on Kildaire Farm Road caught an employee in a pattern of giving away merchandise for free. Michael John Reese, 39, of 3224 Calumet Drive in Raleigh, faces one count of embezzlement for allegedly scanning and then voiding the sales of about $1,200 in miscellaneous household items between 7:34 p.m. March 6 and 8 p.m. March 9.

• Cary police are investigating the theft of about $2,500 in household appliances from a new home under construction on Weycroft Grant Drive. An employee of Wardson Construction alerted police to the crime, which reportedly occurred sometime between noon March 6 and 8 a.m. March 9.

• On March 10 at 3:06 p.m., police in Cary arrested James Kyle Frey, 16, of 104 Whittlewood Dr., with one count of selling or delivering a controlled substance. Further details about Frey’s arrest were not immediately available.

• Police in Cary have arrested a Holly Springs man for stealing a large sum of money in January 2008 from Hotshots Billiards on Edinburgh Drive in Cary. Ryan Roy Pruitt, 24, of 213 Raleigh St. in Holly Springs, was charged March 9 with one count of burglary by forced entry.

• Someone stole a vehicle from the parking lot outside an apartment in the Merriwood Apartments between 7 a.m. March 8 and 6 p.m. March 10.

• Electronics and jewelry valued at more than $7,000 were stolen about 3 p.m. March 12 from a burgundy 2006 Ford sedan parked outside Auto Zone, 199 High House Road. Police said both passenger-side windows were shattered.

• Copper wire valued at $2,000 was stolen between 7 p.m. March 11 and 9 a.m. March 12 from the site of an apartment complex under construction at the intersection of Macedonia Lake Drive and Tryon Manor Drive.

• On March 10 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., someone broke the locking mechanism on a sliding glass door at a home on Skipwyth Circle and stole nearly $2,000 worth of jewelry and electronics, including a television and a camera.

• Cary police have charged the following people with driving while impaired: Richard Paul Barkemeyer, 26, of 244 Guy Road in Davidson, at 3:47 a.m. March 15 on Davis Drive near the intersection with Park Village Drive; Nikko Christy Terzieff, 20, of 2810 Glenverde Drive in Raleigh, at 11:18 p.m. March 9 on Tryon Road at Kildaire Farm Road.

• A teenager was robbed of his cell phone about 5 p.m. March 15 when a male suspect, described as 17 or 18 years old and wearing a red jacket, pushed the victim, causing him to drop the phone. Police said the suspect grabbed the cell phone and ran away with it.

• A Cary woman returned home from work at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 28 to find more than $1,700 in electronics and jewelry, including a gold ring, gold bracelet and gold watch, missing from her home on Arbor View Drive. The victim reported that she had left her garage unsecured, and police think that’s how the thief entered her home.

• Three suspects in a white van are being sought in connection with the March 12 burglary of a home on Ellynn Drive. According to police, the victim came home that afternoon to find her house ransacked and a television, two computers and other items had been stolen.

• Seven cars for sale at Cary Motor Company on East Chatham Street were damaged March 12 when an unknown suspect damaged the vehicles by scratching them with keys. Police estimated the total damage at about $7,000.