A local man, with a laundry list of charges pending against him from various Shenango Valley towns, escaped jail time for his guilty plea in a Sharon case.

Brad A. Laverty, 24, pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and driving without insurance. District Justice James E. McMahon. Sharon, sentenced him to 2 years' probation.

Another charge of possession of drug paraphernalia and two traffic citations were dropped.

Police have been using two addresses for Laverty: 6349 Frogtown Road, Hermitage, and 1120 Weitz Ave., Farrell.

Hermitage and Southwest Mercer County Regional police also have charges pending against Laverty, mostly stemming from a series of car break-ins in Hermitage, West Middlesex, Shenango Township and Brookfield.

Hermitage police added to the list of charges Thursday by three counts of theft against Laverty, accusing him of stealing items between 10 p.m. Nov. 8 and 6:45 a.m. Nov. 9 from three vehicles that were parked at CCL Container, 1 Llodio Drive.

Laverty cut the plastic window of a convertible top of a Jeep and stole $2 in change, police said.

He entered two unlocked vehicles and took three compact discs from one and a carton of cigarettes from another, police said.

In cases that have already proceeded to Mercer County Common Pleas Court, Laverty is charged by Hermitage police in 16 cases with 22 counts of theft, 14 counts of criminal mischief, 10 counts of forgery, six counts of receiving stolen property, two counts of access device fraud and one count each of defiant trespass, possession of drug paraphernalia, possessing instruments of crime and identity theft, and by Southwest police in two cases with two counts each of theft and receiving stolen property and one count of criminal mischief.