Thursday, March 28, 2013
The former Butler County man tried to get a 17-year-old Pine-Richland student to get in the car with him, according to police.
The suspect in a possible child luring attempt in Richland Township was arrested Wednesday after Northern Regional Police used surveillance footage from a nearby GetGo gas station to track him down. Mitchell Gregory Klein, 24, of West Sunbury, is charged with trying to lure a child into his car in Monday's incident. According the police, a 17-year-old Pine-Richland student was getting off the bus at about 3 p.m. near her stop at Grandview Drive and Oakhill Drive when a male driver stopped his vehicle and offered her a ride, telling her “It is cold out there.” The girl refused the ride after the driver asked her several times to get in the vehicle, Amann said. “He asked her three times,” he said. “After the first time she said no, and he …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The former West Sunbury man, who recently moved to West Deer Township, tried to get a 17-year-old girl to get in the car with him, according to police.
Northern Regional Police have obtained an arrest warrant for the man they say was involved in a child luring incident Monday in Richland Township. Police Chief Robert Amann said police have arrested Mitchell Gregory Klein, 24 of West Sunbury. Police and the Pine-Richland School District issued an alert to parents Monday evening after a student reported the incident to them. Amman said the 17-year-old female student was getting off the bus at about 3 p.m. near her stop at Grandview Drive and Oakhill Drive when a male driver stopped his vehicle and offered her a ride, telling her “It is cold out there.” The girl refused the ride after the driver asked her the same question three times, Amann said. After the girl reported the incident to …
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Northern Regional police.
Northern Regional police are asking for the public's help in obtaining more information after a possible child-luring attempt Monday in Richland Township. Police and the Pine-Richland School District issued an alert to parents Monday evening after a student reported the incident to them. According to an alert on the district’s website, the 17-year-old female student was getting off the bus at about 3 p.m. near her stop at Grandview Drive and Oakhill Drive when a male driver stopped his vehicle and offered her a ride, telling her “It is cold out there.” The girl refused the ride after the driver asked her the same question three times, the district statement said. The car's description: The driver's description: The vehicle continued on …
Monday, March 4, 2013
Northern Regional officers pose as customers interested in buying stolen construction tools in order to arrest man who later admitted to burglaries in Cranberry, McCandless, Hampton and Pittsburgh.
Northern Regional police are proving you can find just about anything on Craigslist -- even burglary suspects. Chief T. Robert Amman said officers from the department used the classified advertisement website to track down a Pittsburgh man suspected of stealing power tools from businesses across the North Hills. “It was good work done by them,” Amman said. “They were checking Craigslist and they found some matches on the tools taken.” Jeremy Lee Caskey, 31, of McKees Rocks, is charged with theft, receiving stolen property, burglary and criminal mischief in the incidents. According to Amman, Caskey broke into vehicles and storage trailers at Air Duct Maintenance Inc., and Knobeloch Heating and Cooling in Bakerstown Feb. 20 to steal …
Friday, February 22, 2013
Levi Staver is charged with criminal homicide.
The preliminary hearing for Levi Daniel Staver, who is charged with stabbing his grandmother to death at their Richland Township home, has been postponed. Originally scheduled for Friday, the hearing has been postponed until June 7 before Judge Donna Jo McDaniel, according to court documents. Staver, 26, is in the Allegheny County Jail; his bail request was denied. Staver stabbed his grandmother in the back Tuesday morning as she and his grandfather were sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast, Northern Regional Police Chief T. Robert Amman said. Staver lived with his grandparents and mother at the home in the 3900 block of Gibsonia Road (Route 910). Visitation services for his grandmother, Connie (McCall) Johnston, will be held …
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Richard Bone is charged with statutory sexual assault and other offenses.
A former Richland resident will stand trial on charges of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl in 2005. Magisterial District Judge Suzanne Blaschak on Wednesday ordered Richard Bone, 46, to stand trial on felony counts of statutory sexual assault; involuntary deviate sexual intercourse; aggravated indecent assault; unlawful contact with a minor; corruption of minors and endangering the welfare of children. Bone also faces two misdemeanor counts of indecent assault. He now lives in Hampton. His formal arraignment is set for Feb. 21; he is free from jail on a $25,000 bond. The alleged victim, who is now 22, told Northern Regional Police that Bone was a family acquaintance who started "courting" and then had a sexual …
Thursday, January 31, 2013
The case against Richard Bone began when a woman told therapists and police he'd initiated a relationship with her when she was 15, according to a criminal complaint.
After years of therapy, a 22-year-old woman told Northern Regional Police that a man more than two decades her senior had a sexual relationship with her when she was 15 years old, according to a criminal complaint. Her allegations led police to charge Richard Bone, 46, formerly of Richland Township, with felony counts of statutory sexual assault; involuntary deviate sexual intercourse; aggravated indecent assault; unlawful contact with a minor; corruption of minors and endangering the welfare of children. Bone also faces two misdemeanor counts of indecent assault. He now lives in Hampton. His preliminary hearing is set for Feb. 6 before Magisterial District Judge Suzanne Blaschak. Police initially filed charges in October, but the hearing…
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Break-ins occurred in McCandless, Franklin Park, Ross, Pine, Ohio and Moon townships.
When Brian Flesher met with police at the beginning of December, he told them he wanted to get everything out in the open so he could begin to get help for his drug addiction, according to a criminal complaint. "Everything" included burglaries at homes and a business in McCandless, Franklin Park, Ross, Pine, and Ohio townships, court documents state. The 26-year-old Pittsburgh man now sits in the Allegheny County Jail, unable to post bail, facing a multitude of burglary, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal conspiracy charges. Flesher also is charged in Moon Township with stealing jewelry from a Shafer Road home. In nearly every burglary, Flesher kicked in a side or rear door to gain entry into the home; he told police he …
Friday, January 4, 2013
Edward, Keith and William Hohman and Shawn Graham were preparing to burglarize a Wallace Road home when the owner surprised them.
Four men charged in the Dec. 27 attempted break-in of a Wallace Road home in Pine Township were in court Wednesday for preliminary hearings. William Allen Hohman, 29, of Butler, and Shawn Graham, 34, of Lyndora, waived their preliminary hearings before Magisterial District Judge William K. Wagner. Hearings for Edward Eric Hohman, 30, of Russelton, and Keith Hohman, 22, of Butler, were postponed until Jan. 16. Graham was released; the three Hohmans remain in the Allegheny County Jail. What happened? The resident of the Wallace Road home called 911 around 2:30 p.m. to report that a man was trying to kick in his door, according to the criminal complaint. The resident later identified William Hohman as that man, court documents state. Hohman …
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Matthew McDonald and two co-defendants are ordered to stand trial.
Cases against three men charged in the November robbery of the BP convenience store and gas station in Wexford advanced Wednesday to the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court. Following a preliminary hearing, Magisterial District Judge William K. Wagner ordered Matthew McDonald, who is charged with being the gunman during the holdup, to stand trial. Co-defendants Travis Hallam, 19, and David Piatt, 21, waived their cases. Both Washington, PA, men are charged with criminal conspiracy. McDonald is charged with robbery, criminal conspiracy and theft. The BP is located along Route 910 in Marshall Township in the T-Bones shopping plaza near the I-79 interchange. Formal arraignments are set for Feb. 20. A fourth man charged in the case—Charles …
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8:10 am on Thursday, March 28, 2013
just asking but does revealing where the child lives need to be in the report? Great that alleged Jagoff was caught good work by the Police who do a great job. more ›