August 03, 2023 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A Glassport man is being held without bond in the Allegheny County Jail on charges that he sexually assaulted an intellectually disabled woman who lives in a Downtown apartment building.
Lanny Williams, 54, was arrested July 26. He faces a preliminary hearing Aug. 14 before Magisterial District Judge Eugene Riazzi in McKeesport.
Police allege that Williams, who worked as a security guard in the victim’s building, forced her to have sex on July 23.
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July 25, 2023 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News, North Versailles Twp. News
A North Versailles Twp. man was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound in the parking lot of a defunct movie theater just after 7 a.m. Monday morning.
Daniel A. Sloane, 37, was pronounced dead at the scene, the Allegheny County medical examiner’s office said. The manner of death is still pending an investigation and autopsy.
Sloane’s body was discovered outside the vacant Phoenix Big Cinemas in the 1700 block of Route 30. The medical examiner’s office said that North Versailles police were investigating.
No further details about the death have been made available. Messages left for township police Chief James Matrazzo and an Allegheny County spokeswoman were not immediately returned.
July 24, 2023 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News, Duquesne News
A Turtle Creek woman is in the Allegheny County Jail after being accused of sending death threats to a district magisterial judge in Duquesne.
Rose Ann Kardell, 58, is charged by the Allegheny County sheriff’s office with making threats toward a public official — a felony — along with criminal coercion, stalking, disorderly conduct and harassment that began July 17 toward Magisterial District Judge Scott Schricker.
Kardell was jailed in lieu of $25,000 cash bond pending a preliminary hearing at 9 a.m. July 31 before Magisterial District Judge Kim Berkeley Clark in Pittsburgh Municipal Court.
She also has been ordered to have no contact with Schricker or anyone else associated with the case, court records indicated.
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July 18, 2023 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Crime and Police News
One man was hospitalized following a shooting early Monday morning in Wilmerding.
Allegheny County police said the incident happened just after 5 a.m. in the 600 block of Airbrake Avenue. The victim’s name was not released. Homicide detectives said police and paramedics found a man suffering from gunshot wounds. He was taken to an area hospital in stable condition.
No further details were released. Anyone with information concerning the incident is asked to call the county police tip line at 1 (833) ALL-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.
July 05, 2023 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News, North Versailles Twp. News
A 1-year-old girl died Tuesday afternoon after being struck by a car in a parking lot in North Versailles Twp.
Arionna Porter was pronounced dead at the scene of blunt-force traumatic injuries, the Allegheny County medical examiner’s office said Wednesday. Allegheny County police are investigating.
In a prepared statement, homicide detectives said the accident occurred just before 4:30 p.m. at the Eastland Apartments on East Pittsburgh-McKeesport Boulevard.
The driver of the vehicle, whose name has not been released by police, remained on scene, detectives said. An investigation has been initiated. Anyone with information concerning this incident is asked to call the County Police Tip Line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.
June 22, 2023 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A man from Pittsburgh’s West End is being held by Allegheny County police after they allege he was driving a vehicle that killed a 39-year-old McKeesport woman.
Allegheny County police allege that Brandon K. Pendleton, 31, deliberately ran down the victim following an argument.
Pendleton was arrested Thursday afternoon and is charged by county police with criminal homicide, aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and attempted homicide.
In a prepared statement, county homicide detectives said that McKeesport police and paramedics were dispatched just after 1 a.m. Thursday to the 2600 block of Jenny Lind Street for a report of a vehicle that had struck three people, and then fled the scene.
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June 07, 2023 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A woman accused of shooting to death an East McKeesport man bound his body with plastic and duct tape and left it in her Evans Avenue apartment for several days, Allegheny County detectives allege.
Lindsey S. Jackson, 37, of McKeesport is being held without bond in the Allegheny County Jail in connection with the murder of Donte Lee “Chiefy’” Glover, 36, whose body was discovered May 1.
Glover had been reported missing the previous day and had last been seen alive on April 27, according to police.
Detectives said that Glover’s cell phone was last used for an outgoing call on the morning of April 28. That same day, police said, a security camera captured video of Glover going into Jackson’s apartment at around 7:30 a.m.
He never emerged, although Jackson was recorded coming and going from the apartment on multiple occasions, police said.
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June 07, 2023 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A former Duquesne man who was charged in 2019 with drug trafficking as an alleged member of the Braddock-based SCO gang has been sentenced to five years in federal prison.
The sentence was imposed May 17 on Delbert Pate, 30, by Senior U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab in Pittsburgh, and also includes four years’ probation following release.
Prosecutors said that Pate pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin-laced substances.
More than 30 members of SCO were indicted in 2019 following a lengthy local, state and federal investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force. Prosecutors allege that Pate’s half-brother, Howard McFadden, was the leader of SCO.
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May 18, 2023 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Crime and Police News, North Versailles Twp. News
Allegheny County police are investigating a head-on collision Tuesday that killed a 65-year-old driver.
Police said the accident happened just before 3:30 p.m. under the George Westinghouse Bridge in North Versailles Twp.
Investigators said an SUV driven by a 19-year-old man was traveling west on East Pittsburgh-McKeesport Boulevard, toward East Pittsburgh, when it crossed the center line and collided with an eastbound passenger van.
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May 05, 2023 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
Allegheny County police are asking for the public’s help in locating Lindsey Jackson, 37. (Photo courtesy Allegheny County police)
Allegheny County police are asking for the public’s help in locating a woman who went missing following the death of an East McKeesport man.
Donte Lee “Chiefy” Glover, 36, was found dead just after 9 p.m. Monday night inside an apartment on Evans Avenue in McKeesport. Police said he had been shot.
Relatives told police that Glover had been missing since the night of April 28, when he was seen leaving for work at Carnegie Mellon University in Oakland.
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