Police: Ex-Girlfriend Turns in Former Beau's Stolen Items

A trailer believed to have been stolen from a Moon Township home is recovered.

Police in Moon Township recovered a stolen trailer with the help of the ex-girlfriend of the man accused of stealing it.  David Lewandowski, 32, of Sewickley, is charged with theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief in connection to the theft of a trailer from a Moon Clinton Road home.  A homeowner on the street told police in 2011 that his trailer was stolen from his yard. In February 2012, a woman contacted him to say that her ex-boyfriend, who was recently charged with burglary in Ohio Township, may have taken the trailer. Police said the woman lead them to a shed on her property in Sewickley, where they recovered the trailer, believed to have been taken by Lewandowski.  A preliminary hearing is …

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Police Trace Child Pornography to Kennedy Township Man

A 47-year-old man is charged with owning and sharing lewd images and videos of children, according to court records.

A Kennedy Township man is slated to face a preliminary hearing in Coraopolis on charges he stored pornographic videos and images of children on his computer.  Jeffrey Guzzo, 47, of Helen Street, is charged with disseminating child pornography, possession of child pornography and possession of obscene and other sexual materials, according to court records.  In a criminal complaint, Moon Police Officer Reginald Humbert wrote he was conducting a investigation in November into the dissemination of online child pornography. Humbert located an Internet protocol address, later identified as belonging to Guzzo, that was sharing pornographic material via the BitTorrent file sharing network.  Police were able to download images shared through the IP…

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Nearby: Pittsburgh Men Charged in Taxi Cab Armed Robbery

Police trace footprints in the snow to a home, where they find two men suspected of committing the holdup.

Moon Township Police said a Yellow Cab taxi driver fled from his vehicle after two men robbed him at gunpoint Wednesday on Cedar Drive. Police have charged Brandon Brown, 23, and Lynard Grace Jr., 23, both of Pittsburgh, with felony robbery and aggravated assault in the incident.  Police said the cab driver picked up Brown, Grace and an unidentified woman at 3:15 a.m. Wednesday in McKees Rocks. The group instructed the driver to go to Coraopolis and then to the Mooncrest neighborhood in Moon Township.  When the vehicle arrived just before 4 a.m. at the 400 block of Cedar Drive, the woman got out of the cab and went into a home on the street. Brown, who was seated in the front seat of the cab, pulled out a silver Raven Arms revolver and …

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Sewickley Police Investigate Possible Assault on Moon Man

Police say a Moon Township man was taken to the hospital after being assaulted.

Sewickley police are investigating the assault of a Moon Township man who was taken to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh for injuries he suffered from a possible attack in Sewickley. Police were advised at 4:15 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 10 by Allegheny County dispatch that a 40-year-old man was possibly assaulted at the American Legion on Chadwick Street. Valley Ambulance medics advised Moon police that the man appeared to have been assaulted. Police said both of the man’s eyes were swollen and he complained that his face hurt. Moon police couldn’t determine if the man drove home or was dropped off at his house. He was taken to Heritage Valley Sewickley hospital, where police said the man was “very confused” about where he had been …

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8:58 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012

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Convicted Car Thief Charged with Making Terroristic Threats

Moon police say the man used a gun to threaten residents at an apartment complex in the township.

A Moon man threatened to kill a group of women who live in a township apartment complex, according to police.  Johnathan Michael Jaquay, 19, is charged with threatening three women who live at the Fox Hollow apartment complex, telling them "I'll be back for you," after showing them the semi-automatic handgun he was carrying, according to a Moon Police report.  Police said Jaquay was involved in an argument with a group of women who live at the College Park Drive complex. On Sept. 23, he approached one of them in the complex's parking lot and demanded an apology.  When the woman refused to apologize, Jaquay threatened to kill her and her friends, police said. He showed the women the silver, semi-automatic handgun he was carrying, pulling …

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Suspect Identified, Faces Gun Charge after Moon Bank Hold-Up

Brentwood man undergoes surgery for self-inflicted wound after armed standoff with SWAT team

A Brentwood man suspected of robbing a Moon grocery store barricaded himself in his home Sunday night and slit his own throat before SWAT officers took him into custody. Moon Police said Christopher Lyons, 31, is a suspect in the holdup Sunday afternoon at Giant Eagle on University Boulevard. Police said Lyons walked into the grocery about 12:15 p.m. and presented a note to a teller at the  Citizens Bank in the store. The note said a robbery was under way, police said. Police said the teller gave the man an undisclosed amount of cash, which contained an exploding dye pack. The robber fled with the cash, which exploded in the store parking lot before he drove away in a Cadillac Escalade. Witnesses later saw the car on Ohio River Boulevard, …

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Update: Driver in Good Condition at AGH after Head-on Crash on Stoops Ferry Road

Rescue crews extricate trapped man this morning after his car collides with a tractor trailer.

A man is upgraded from critical to good condition at Allegheny General Hospital after a head-on collision just before 7:30 am today on Stoops Ferry Road in Moon Township. An official report has not been filed, but Moon Township Police at the scene said a man traveling in a car on Stoops Ferry Road near the Shafer Road intersection drifted into a lane of oncoming traffic and collided head-on with a tractor trailer. Moon Police received numerous calls at 7:27 am reporting a serious accident and possible entrapment. The man in the car was trapped, and firefighters from the Moon Township Volunteer Fire Department cut him out of the car. He was taken by ambulance to AGH on the North Side, where he is now listed in good condition. Police did not…

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Around the Rivers

Around The Rivers: A 'CopBlock' Tape, A Rocking 'Cindystock,' A WPIAL Ruling and A Notable Birthday

Here's a review of the week's headlines from around our region's Three Rivers.

Muggles in Patch communities spent much of last week assembling costumes and stocking up on supplies of chocolate frogs, acid pops -- and maybe even a magic spell or two? -- in anticipation of the local premiere of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II." Patch kept you up to date on local Potter-mania, and it brought you plenty of other stories as well from Around the Rivers over the past week. Among them:   "Pittsburgh CopBlock" Documents Moon Police An activist group that calls itself Pittsburgh CopBlock has cast its lens on Moon Township Police, among others, as it records videotapes of police incidents around the region and posts them on YouTube. Pittsburgh CopBlock is an offshoot of the national CopBlock.org. According to the…

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Poplawski Trial: Local Police Attend to Support Slain Pittsburgh Officers

Testimony began Monday in the trial of Richard Poplawski, the accused killer of three Pittsburgh police officers in 2009.

Police from Moon Township, Ross Township and other Patch communities joined dozens of uniformed state troopers and Pittsburgh and municipal officers who lined the streets Monday outside the Allegheny County Courthouse, Downtown. Solemn officers stood side by side to show support for the families of slain Pittsburgh Police Officers Paul J. Sciullo II, Stephen J. Mayhle and Eric G. Kelly, who died in a shootout after responding to a domestic dispute on April 4, 2009. The homicide trial for Richard Poplawski, the man charged with ambushing the officers outside his mother's home in Stanton Heights, began Monday before Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Poplawski, 24, who also …

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