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Friday, March 16, 2012

News Nearby: Ross Detective to Appear in 'America's Most Wanted' Story on Armored Truck Employee

Ross Police Detective Brian Kohlhepp will be among local law enforcement officials featured on the Lifetime Channel's 'America's Most Wanted' at  9 tonight.

Ross Police Detective Brian Kohlhepp will be among local law enforcement officials featured on the Lifetime Channel's "America's Most Wanted" at 9 p.m. tonight. The officials will be interviewed about Kenneth Konias Jr., the Dravosburg man who is being sought as a suspect in the Feb. 28 homicide of a Garda armored truck employee and the subsequent robbery of more than $2 million in Pittsburgh. The investigation in this case is ongoing. Police believe one of the last people to have seen Konias' partner at Garda was an employee at the Crate and Barrel at the Ross Park Mall. Police also are investigating accounts of a gunshot heard about an hour later in the parking lot of the Ross Home Depot .  Police are featuring Konias on electronic …

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Ross Township Police Department (in North Hills Patch) and Home Depot (in North Hills Patch)

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Cranberry Police Use DNA Evidence to Make Arrest in 2002 Rape Case

Ralph Skundrich already was in prison on unrelated charges at the time of arrest.

Using new DNA evidence, Cranberry police have arrested and charged Ralph S. Skundrich in the 2002 rape of a woman in the Village of Laurelwood Apartments complex in Cranberry Township. Skundrich, 45, who has resided in Valencia in Butler County and in Westmoreland County, currently is behind bars on unrelated charges following a four-year manhunt. According to WTAE, Skundrich was on house arrest in South Greensburg in 2005 and awaiting trial in connection with a plot to rob an Indiana County businessman of $1 million when he disappeared. After Skundrich was featured in an episode of America’s Most Wanted, a tip from a viewer led to his arrest in 2009 in Pompano Beach, FL. Sgt. Chuck Mascellino said testing performed after Skundrich's …

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