Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Pine officials swear in the new law enforcement officers.
Two more officers have joined the Northern Regional Police force. At Monday’s meeting, Pine Township supervisors held a swearing in ceremony for the newest members in blue, Ryan Olszewski and Jennifer Dempsey. Police Chief Robert Amann said Olszewski, of Lower Burrell, replaces Officer Ken Young. An 18-year veteran on the force and the former chief of the Wexford Volunteer Fire Company, Young died in November 2011 after yearlong battle with cancer. Amann said Olszewski, 26, previously worked for four years as a police officer in Arnold borough. A Castle Shannon resident, Dempsey was a part-time police officer in McDonald before joining the Northern Regional Police Department fulltime. The 24-year-old is one of two female officers on the …
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Monday, May 6, 2013
The officer was checked over for neck and back issues before being released.
A Northern Regional Police officer was taken to UPMC Passavant in McCandless Monday morning after a driver struck his parked cruiser in Richland Township. Police Chief Robert T. Amann said the officer was checked over for neck and back issues before being released from the hospital. The other driver was not injured. Amann said the officer was stopped on Gibson Road just over the Hampton Township border after pulling over a female driver for a traffic violation when another driver, failing to see the police cruiser ahead of him, plowed into the back of the car. “My officer was in the car writing some information down on the driver that he had stopped, at which time he was struck from behind by a vehicle traveling in the same direction,” …
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Northern Regional Police Department
230 Pearce Mill Rd, Wexford, PA
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
The middle school student reported the incident to his principal, who called police.
Northern Regional Police have arrested a suspect in another child-luring incident involving a Pine-Richland School District student. This is the second time within a little more than a month that police have charged someone with attempting to entice a Pine-Richland student into a car. According to the district, a middle school student was leaving his school bus near Chaucer Circle and Renee Drive in Richland Township Wednesday afternoon when a stranger twice offered him a ride. Northern Regional Police Chief Bob Amann said the man offered to ride the 14-year-old "up the road." The following morning, the boy reported the incident to middle school principal David Kristofic, who in turn called police, Pine-Richland spokeswoman Rachel Hathhorn…
Thursday, March 28, 2013
The former West Sunbury man, who recently moved to West Deer Township, 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 …
Monday, March 25, 2013
The district issues an alert to parents after the incident Monday.
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 …
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Pine-Richland High School
700 Warrendale Rd, Gibsonia, PA
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Monday, March 4, 2013
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 …
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230 Pearce Mill Rd, Wexford, PA
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
A portion of Route 910 was closed for hours as the trucks were towed and an environmental crew cleaned the accident site.
No one was seriously injured in last week's head-on collision between a Federal Express tractor-trailer and a Gasline Service Co. utility truck on Route 910 in Pine Township, according to Northern Regional Police. McCandless-Franklin Park Ambulance Authority transported two people to area hospitals after Wednesday afternoon's accident—William Keyser, 56, of Verona, who was a passenger in the Gasline truck, and FedEx driver Joseph Kaiser, 54, of Aliquippa, police said. Both were treated and released. The accident occurred about 4:45 p.m. Feb. 20 on Route 910/Wexford Road near the Village Club Drive intersection. Police closed a portion of Route 910 between North Chapel Drive and Pearce Mill Road for hours while they towed the trucks and …
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Wexford Rd & N Chapel Dr, Wexford, PA
Accident occurred just east of this intersection
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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 …
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Levi Staver is in the Allegheny County Jail, awaiting a hearing Friday.
The 26-year-old Richland man charged with killing his grandmother told police he was sitting at the computer in his bedroom when the archangel directed him to “kill the witch”, according to a criminal complaint. Levi Daniel Staver is charged with criminal homicide for Tuesday’s stabbing death of his grandmother, Constance Johnston, at their Richland Township home. According to the criminal complaint, Staver told detectives that he made the sign of the cross, got dressed like a soldier, took a sword and said, “This thing has got to go”. Allegheny County detectives said Staver used a large, black bowie knife, not a sword, the complaint states. Staver was quoted as saying that if the archangels want him to do something, he does it, the …
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Levi Daniel Staver, 26, is in the custody of Allegheny County Police.
A 26-year-old man stabbed his grandmother to death Tuesday morning at their Richland Township home, Northern Regional Police Chief T. Robert Amman said. Levi Daniel Staver was outside the home in the 3900 block of Gibsonia Road (Route 910) when police arrived about 9:40 a.m. and took him into custody, Amann said. Staver's grandmother, Constance Johnston, 76, was dead on the living room floor where she had collapsed, the police chief said. Staver had come up from the basement and stabbed his grandmother in the back as she and his grandfather were sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast, Amann said. When asked about motive, the chief said Allegheny County Police are interviewing Staver at the county station now. Staver's grandfather …
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Evelyn Reynolds
7:13 am on Friday, May 10, 2013
I was born and raised in Gibsonia. I know Gibson road well and there are some places that have "blind spots." I understand the officer had his lights flashing but from what distance could the driver have seen them? I also understand that the driver was in excess of the speed limit and had been distracted, but the important thing is the officer is unharmed and I assume the driver and the person … more ›