A woman wanted on warrants issued in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties was arrested when New Kensington police spotted her inside a McDonald’s restaurant.

Police also charged her with felony possession of contraband after they said she handed a crack pipe over to a deputy sheriff who came to transport her to the Westmoreland County jail, according to her arrest papers.

Officers responded June 9 to the Sheetz on Freeport Street in Parnassus after receiving a tip that Rachel Marie Mautino, 44, of Blue Ridge Road in Plum, was sitting outside the convenience store shortly after 9 p.m., according to a criminal complaint.

Police said Mautino, who is known to them and had active arrest warrants, was gone when they arrived.

A Sheetz employee told officers that she left on foot along Freeport Street, the complaint said.

Mautino was found inside a McDonald’s a half mile away and taken into custody.

Officers asked Mautino three times while taking her to the New Kensington police station for processing if she had any narcotics or drug paraphernalia in her possession, the complaint said.

She told police that she had some “Chore Boy” in her purse.

Chore Boy is the brand name of a copper scouring pad used when smoking crack cocaine to retain some of the vapors for a second hit from the pipe, according to the Urban Dictionary website.

The material was confiscated by police but they did not charge her with possession of drug paraphernalia, the complaint said.

That changed, however, when a Westmoreland County sheriff’s deputy showed up to transport Mautino to the county jail.

She is accused of handing the deputy a glass crack pipe she concealed in her bra that was not discovered when she was searched before being placed in a cell, authorities said.

Mautino is awaiting trial in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court for felony counts of retail theft filed by Penn Hills police in November, according to court records. A judge issued a bench warrant for her arrest after she failed to show up for a hearing, court records show.

She also was ordered to stand trial in Westmoreland County on a felony retail theft charge filed in January by New Kensington police, according to the court docket.

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