Friday, March 1, 2013
Christopher Menosky originally was from Beaver County.
The human remains discovered along Dutilh Road in Cranberry Feb. 16 have been identified as a missing Butler man. Cranberry police Sgt. Chuck Mascellino said investigators used dental records to identify 47-year-old Christopher Menosky, who was reported missing in July. Mascellino said Menosky’s last known address was in Butler. He originally was from Beaver County. Police do not know how Menosky died at this time, Mascellino said. Foul play is not suspected. “We don’t suspect anything suspicious at this time,” Mascellino said. Investigators were able to identify Menosky with help from a wallet with identification in it found near where the skeletal remains where discovered across from Dutilh United Methodist Church. Police were called to …
Monday, February 18, 2013
Investigators find a wallet with identification in it near where the skeletal remains were discovered Saturday.
The human remains found along a wooded area of Dutilh Road in Cranberry over the weekend may be those of a Beaver County man reported missing in July, investigators said. Sgt. Chuck Mascellino said police would not release the name of the man, who is believed to be in his 40s, until a positive identification is made on the remains. “We have a tentative idea of who it is,” Mascellino said. Investigators found a wallet with identification in it near where the skeletal remains were discovered Saturday across from Dutilh United Methodist Church, Mascellino said. Police were called to the area at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday after a man walking from UPMC Passavant Cranberry to the Cranberry Mall saw the remains and dialed 9-1-1. Mascellino said a…
Saturday, February 16, 2013
A man walking toward Cranberry Mall found the remains Saturday afternoon.
A forensic anthropology team from Mercyhurst University in Erie is assisting Cranberry Township Police in identifying human remains found Saturday afternoon in a wooded area along Dutilh Road. A man walking from UPMC Passavant-Cranberry to a Cranberry Mall found the skeletal remains about 2:30 p.m. on hospital property near Dutilh United Methodist Church (see map). Officers said clothing indicates the remains were that of a man and that there was no apparent cause of death. The remains have been taken back to Mercyhurst for further analysis, KDKA-TV reported. “We’ll do a complete forensic anthropological analysis of it to determine the age, the sex, the stature, the ancestry, and then take a look at trauma, for example, and do a careful …
Monday, August 20, 2012
The owner of a motor home received a minor burn on his arm.
Fire destroyed a pair of recreational vehicles parked at the Rent-a-Space self-storage facility off Route 228 and Dutilh Road in Cranberry Sunday afternoon. Fire chief Brian Kovac said the owner of one of the RVs was working on the engine at about 1 p.m. when it caught fire. The man, whose name Kovac did not know, tried to put out the flames with a fire extinguisher, but the extinguisher did not work, Kovac said. When the man returned with another extinguisher, flames already had engulfed the vehicle, Kovac said. The fire also destroyed a second motor home parked next to the first recreational vehicle. The fire did not affect the self-storage unit buildings. Kovac said the RV owner received a minor burn on his arm. He was treated by EMS …
