Paul Peirce stories, Page 29
Troopers accuse Mt. Pleasant man of stealing car, resisting arrest
State police accused a Mt. Pleasant man of fighting with troopers and resisting arrest as he was being taken into custody on car theft charges over the weekend, according to court documents. An area man drove to the Sherwin-Williams paint store in the Countryside Plaza in East Huntingdon around 10...
Greensburg parolee charged with assault, strangulation after battered woman shows up at police station
A man who was released from state prison after pleading guilty to brutally assaulting a woman in Latrobe is now charged with another alleged attack in Greensburg. A woman went to the city police station around 8 p.m. Saturday to report that Glenn J. Whittier assaulted her at his Walnut...
Police investigate homicide of Philadelphia man found in Indiana County
Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for killing a Philadelphia man whose body was discovered last week along a rural road in Indiana County. The death of Dashawn C. Green-Brewster, 27, of Philadelphia, was ruled a homicide...
New Stanton woman charged with making 40th false alarm to 911
A New Stanton woman who has been charged 11 times since September with making false alarm calls to 911 allegedly made her 40th unnecessary call to the dispatch center — one that landed her in the county jail, according to state police. Twandrea N. Brown, 33, who is awaiting hearings...
Man charged with assaulting disabled East Huntingdon resident
A 20-year-old West Newton man was ordered held in the county prison after failing to post $10,000 bond Friday on charges of assaulting a physically-challenged man and damaging a police car. George R. Babilya was arraigned on charges of disorderly conduct, harassment, institutional vandalism, making terroristic threats, reckless endangerment and...
Police investigating ‘suspicious’ death of man found along rural road in Indiana County
State police in Greensburg and Indiana labelled the death of a man whose body was discovered Thursday afternoon along a rural road in Indiana County as “suspicious.” Trooper Cliff Greenfield said the man’s body was discovered along Mulligan Hill Road in West Wheatfield Township, near Indiana County’s border with Westmoreland...
Vandals damage Biden, Black Lives Matter signs in GreensburgVideo
Barbara Mabry pulled back the curtain in the front window of her Greensburg home after a car stopped early Thursday and watched as someone vandalized a Black Lives Matter sign in her yard. The person used orange spray paint to mark Xs on both sides of the sign that has...
Greensburg woman charged by police with stabbing boyfriend
A Greensburg woman is accused of stabbing her boyfriend with a kitchen knife during an argument last weekend, city police said. Laura M. Piper, 29, is charged with aggravated assault, harassment and simple assault after the incident Sunday morning at the Eastmont Estates apartment complex, according to city police. She...
Patient at Penn Township nursing home charged with sexual assault
Police this week charged a 68-year-old patient at a Penn Township personal care home with sexually assaulting another patient. Daniel Gross is charged with indecent assault in connection with the Dec. 30 incident at Golden Heights Personal Care Home along Route 130. A nurse’s aide completing patient room checks before...
Penn Township police charge man with transmitting obscene photos of ex-girlfriend
Penn Township police this week charged a McKeesport man with posting partially nude photographs of woman on social media. Det. Brad Buchsbaum charged Shawn Himich Jr., 24, with 12 counts each of dissemination of intimate materials and illegally transmitting obscene and sexual materials. Buchsbaum said in court documents the woman,...
Mt. Pleasant Township man accused of assault, threatening others at gunpoint
State police arrested a 19-year-old Mt. Pleasant Township man on charges of assaulting a woman and threatening four people with a handgun after they came to his home over the weekend to check on the woman’s welfare. Blade L. Cole is charged with simple assault, making terroristic threats, harassment, illegal...
Cash 5 ticket worth $373K sold in Murrysville
A winning Cash 5 ticket worth more than $373,000 was sold at the Giant Eagle store in Murrysville, Pennsylvania Lottery officials announced Tuesday. The jackpot winning ticket matched all five balls drawn, 2-11-12-30-32, on Saturday. The store at 4810 Old William Penn Highway earns a $500 bonus for selling the...
Spirit Airlines expands flights from Arnold Palmer Regional Airport to Florida, Myrtle Beach
After months of commercial flight slowdowns and outright shutdowns, the terminal at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport is about to become bustling again with airline passengers. While covid-19 and an $18 million runway widening and facility improvement project took their toll on commercial flight offerings over the last 11 months, officials...
Retired Indiana Area School District teacher accused of assaulting teen
A former Indiana Area School District teacher was arrested Thursday on charges he sexually assaulted a teenager on multiple occasions beginning in 2009. Indiana Borough Police Chief Justin Schawl said officers, working with the district attorney’s office, filed charges of corruption of minors, indecent assault on a person under 16...
Hempfield hit-and-run victim gives police photo of alleged driver, leads to arrest
As Eugene Hunter was being wheeled to an ambulance on a gurney Thursday afternoon, he handed state police a cellphone he said contained a photo of the driver who ran him down in a Hempfield parking lot. Trooper Tristan Tappe reported in court documents that the photograph, taken moments before...
Latrobe men charged by police after daylight brawl involving knife, pepper spray
Two men were arrested when an ongoing feud resulted in a daylight brawl Wednesday along a main thoroughfare in Latrobe, city police said. Police said one person allegedly used pepper spray and a small knife during the fight along the 1900 block of Ligonier Street near Latrobe Elementary School about...
State police investigating vehicle-pedestrian accident in Hempfield
State police are investigating a vehicle-pedestrian accident Thursday in a Westmoreland County Housing Authority complex in Hempfield. An unidentified man was taken by Mutual Aid Ambulance to Forbes Hospital in Monroeville with multiple injuries after being hit by a vehicle along Lenhart Avenue in the West Hempfield Townhomes complex, according...
Pennsylvania firearms background checks shatter record in 4th quarter 2020
Word that Pennsylvania State Police saw a record surge in firearm license background checks in 2020 didn’t surprise Mark Boerio, owner of Latrobe’s Army Navy & Indoor Pistol Range. Business soared last year — and has continued into 2021, he said. “It’s the same everywhere,” Boerio said. “First you had...
Unity man charged with locking child in closet now accused of child rape
A Unity man awaiting trial on charges of locking his 9-year-old son inside a closet and nailing it shut was arrested this week by state police, who accused him of raping a girl. Shawn L. Waulk, 33, who was free on $25,000 unsecured bond on the 2020 complaint, was ordered...
Man accused of threatening woman with gun in Unity also charged with drug possession
State police say they seized a handgun from a hidden safe and numerous bags of heroin and methamphetamine Monday from a Unity apartment. Jerome W. Thorton II, 30, of Wilkinsburg, was arraigned on charges of illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, terroristic threats, possession of a firearm...
After weeklong closure for ignoring covid restrictions, Tin Lizzy bar set to reopen
After a weeklong shutdown for defying Gov. Tom Wolf’s temporary restrictions on indoor dining during a surge in covid cases, the Tin Lizzy Tap Room and Restaurant in Youngstown will reopen 7 a.m. Tuesday. “A trooper from liquor control was in here (Monday) and gave us the OK to reopen,”...
State police accuse East Huntingdon woman of abusing 5-year-old girl
An East Huntingdon woman is accused of seriously injuring a 5-year-old girl last month, according to state police. Shelbi Lee Richter, 28, was arraigned on charges of aggravated assault on a victim less than six-years-old, child endangerment and simple assault filed by state police in connection with the alleged Dec....
Hempfield District Judge Anthony Bompiani retires with year left in term
Saying he wanted to “start a new chapter” in his life, Hempfield District Judge Anthony Bompiani has hung up his robe. Bompiani, 41, of Hempfield served as district judge for five years. He retired, effective Dec. 31, according to county special courts administrator Christopher A. Haidze. “I’ve been thinking about...
Latrobe man accused of indecently assaulting Adelphoi runaway
Police filed indecent assault charges against a Latrobe man accused of helping a 17-year-old run away from an Adelphoi Village group home. Eric L. Mallin, 50, and his wife, Michele L. Mallin, 48, were charged with corruption of minors after police say they helped the girl when she left the...
Salem man jailed in connection with $16K trailer theft
A Salem man on the lam from state police since New Year’s Eve was apprehended Wednesday and arraigned on theft and receiving stolen property charges. William Elvin Cochran, 33, of Hawk Drive, is in the county jail on $250,000 bond after state police charged him with receiving stolen property and...
