Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Authorities were alerted to the situation by school officials, who apparently found sexually explicit images on a student’s cell phone.
Collier Township police and the Allegheny County district attorney’s office are investigating a widespread sexting case at Chartiers Valley High School. Authorities were alerted to the situation Tuesday afternoon by school officials, who apparently found sexually explicit images on a student’s cell phone. Collier police Thomas Devin said they’re in the “early stages” of the investigation, but that it’s becoming clear that numerous students are involved. “It’s one of those things that it starts out as one and just keeps growing,” Devin told Chartiers Valley Patch. “We know there are a couple (students) involved and we’ll be investigating them. As far as this goes, it keeps growing.” He would not say who the students are because of their …
Monday, May 14, 2012
Jeffery James Yeargin, 36, is charged with felony count of theft.
A 36-year-old man charged with taking a silver 2005 Mini Cooper S for a test drive and never returning it to Billco Motors in Wexford is scheduled for a June 25 formal arraignment. Jeffery James Yeargin, formerly of Mount Washington, waived his preliminary hearing last week when he appeared before Magisterial District Judge William K. Wagner. He is charged with a felony count of theft by unlawful taking. Yeargin remains in the Allegheny County Jail, with bail set at $10,000. A Billco salesman told Northern Regional police that Yeargin came in about 7 p.m. Jan. 16 to take a test drive and never returned, the criminal complaint states. The salesman made a photocopy of Yeargin's license and entered the name into the company's computer, …
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
The 19-year-old has been missing since saying she was headed to Florida with a boyfriend.
Alivia Christine Kail, a 19-year-old living in Mt. Washington, went to her brother's home in West Mifflin on March 5, 2011, to gather some clothes. Alivia told him she planned to move to Florida with her boyfriend, Alexander Lorenzi, of Pittsburgh's Esplen neighborhood. When her family was unable to contact her by phone for several days, they became concerned. Then Alivia's phone was shut off for non-payment. When Lorenzi reappeared in Pittsburgh without Alivia and gave conflicting accounts as to her whereabouts, the family's worry deepened. Lorenzi was arrested on March 30, 2011, for unrelated drug and gun charges. While searching Lorenzi's home and vehicle, police found three spent shell casings, a pink tote containing woman's clothing…
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Patricia K. Smith used the money she stole from Baierl Acura in Pine to fund a lavish lifestyle.
After living an extravagant lifestyle that included multiple homes, exotic trips and gifts lavished on family members, Patricia K. Smith will spend the next six and a half years behind bars. Senior United States District Judge Gustave Diamond on Wednesday sentenced Smith, of Cranberry, to 78 months in prison and three years of supervised release. In addition, Smith was ordered to forfeit her homes and numerous items of personal property to the government and to pay restitution of more than $10.3 million. Formerly the controller of the Baierl Acura car dealership in Pine, Smith, 58, pleaded guilty in January to one count of wire fraud According to court documents, the married mother of three grown children and grandmother to three …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Rite-aid was evacuated after smoke filled the building. Plus, Adams Area Fire District rescues family trapped in elevator.
The power has been restored along Route 19 in Cranberry after an hourlong outage Tuesday afternoon. Penn Power spokesman Robbie Lombardo said about 1,967 customers were affected by the outage. Electricity was restored at 2:45 p.m. While the company is still investigating an official reason for the power loss, Lombardo said the recent storms that swept through area in the last few days likely caused the outage. The Cranberry Township Volunteer Fire Company also was kept hopping during the outage with half a dozen almost simultaneous calls. Firefighters responded to the Rite-Aid on Route 19 after smoke filled the building. Fire Chief Brian Kovac said motors inside two rooftop HVAC units burnt up during a power surge caused by the outage. …
Tyler McWilliams had BAC of .366 percent, according to criminal complaint.
When police arrived at a Treesdale home around 1 a.m. on April 28 to check out a report of an underage drinking party, they discovered a 20-year-old man who was "completely unresponsive" and called for an ambulance. That man—Tyler McWilliams—is the man who was arrested and charged over the weekend with felony counts of possessing and dealing marijuana, as well as underage drinking, according to court documents. The Gibsonia resident also faces misdemeanor charges of possessing suspected marijuana and Metadate/Methylphenidate, the criminal complaint states. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday. McWilliams was taken to UPMC Passavant where tests showed he had a blood alcohol content, commonly referred to as a BAC, of .366 …
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Click the video to watch Cranberry firefighters conduct training drills and a structure burn at an empty house donated to the company.
Where there’s smoke … There’s the Cranberry Township Volunteer Fire Company. With help from state-certified fire instructors from across the region, including the Peters Township and Mt. Lebanon fire departments, Cranberry firefighters conducted a training session at 70 Burke Road over the weekend. While Saturday consisted of a classroom environment, volunteers got hands-on experience Sunday when they lit the vacant house on fire and conducted drills inside the burning home. The owner of the property donated the three-bedroom ranch-style home to the fire company for training. Fire Chief Brian Kovac said the resident had planned to demolish the house and build a new structure, but first called the fire company to ask if they could make use …
Monday, May 7, 2012
Patrica K. Smith could serve six years in prison.
Although the Cranberry woman who embezzled $10.2 million from Baierl Acura and used it to fund her lavish lifestyle and that of her family members won’t be sentenced until Wednesday, the prosecution recommends she serve five to six years in prison. Patricia K. Smith, the 58-year-old former controller of the Pine Township-based car dealership, pleaded guilty in January to one count of wire fraud before Senior United States District Judge Gustave Diamond. According to documents filed in federal court in Pittsburgh, Smith, a married mother to three grown children and grandmother to three, electronically transferred funds from Baierl’s payroll bank account to one of her personal bank accounts on more than 800 occasions from Dec. 2004 until …
Tyler Joseph McWilliams is charged with felony counts of possessing and dealing marijuana, the police chief said. Bryan Thomas Watt faces misdemeanor charges.
A week after law-enforcement officials spent the day investigating a Treesdale home for the possibility that a clandestine lab was manufacturing drugs or explosives, two men have been charged in the case, according to Northern Regional Police Chief T. Robert Amann. Tyler Joseph McWilliams, 20, of Gibsonia, has been arrested and charged with felony counts of possessing and dealing marijuana at an April 28 party at the Condor Lane home, said Amann. He also is charged with underage drinking. A second Gibsonia man, 19-year-old Bryan Thomas Watt, is charged with misdemeanor counts of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia, along with underage drinking, the chief said. His preliminary hearing is set for June 20. Police are awaiting lab …
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Each weekend, beginning May 12-13, Patch will review a missing person, an unidentified body or a cold case homicide victim from Allegheny or Washington counties.
The Pennsylvania Missing Persons website features the somewhat-haunting sketch of "Beth Doe" on its homepage. Nancy Monahan of Penn Hills, who started and runs the website, chose the sketch because, in nearly four decades, and despite social networking and modern forensics, no one has ever been able to determine where the woman came from or who she was. Monahan was intrigued in part because the woman would have been in her own age bracket. The details of the case are rather disturbing. The young woman had been dismembered and mutilated. She and her full-term, unborn child were stuffed in three suitcases and thrown from a bridge along Interstate 80 over the Lehigh River in Carbon County, PA. Police think the killer meant for the suitcases …
Alan Frankel
4:38 pm on Monday, May 14, 2012
How can a business allow this to happen? They must be pretty smart people, who wern't paying much attention to ther bottom line. They must make a ton of money on each vehicle sold, and must sell a ton of vehicles each year. I say shame on the Baierl family to allow this to happen and go on for so long. more ›