Teen Reports Being Assaulted and Robbed in Sewickley

Sewickley police said someone reportedly attacked the youth and took his cash.

Sewickley police are investigating an assault and robbery that reportedly occurred Monday night on a public sidewalk in the borough. Police Chief James Ersher said a 15-year-old told officers he was walking around 7:20 p.m. in the 400 block of Beaver Street, near the front of Bruegger’s Bagels, when someone punched him in the stomach, took cash from him and threw his wallet to the ground.  Ersher said the suspect then ran from the area. The victim walked to Rite Aid before police were notified. He was taken by private vehicle to Heritage Valley Sewickley hospital for an evaluation, Ersher said. The suspect is only described as a male between 18 and 20 wearing a green or gray hooded sweatshirt. Ersher said police still have questions …

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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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Police Arrest Two Robbery Suspects Off I-79 in Wexford

Fidelity Bank in Ross Township robbed.

Following a chase and crash on Interstate-79 late Wednesday afternoon, police arrested two men who are suspected of a bank robbery in Ross Township. Police chased the suspects through Ross and into Franklin Park where their vehicle crashed on I-79, near the Mingo Road overpass.  The suspects ran off on foot, but were arrested a short time later. One was then taken to the hospital with minor injuries. State police and officers from Ross, Ohio Township, Evans City, Cranberry and Franklin Park are now combing the woods, looking for weapons they believe the suspects threw into the brush, KDKA-TV reports.  Evans City police said the station's K-9 officer, Sgt. Don Myers, was called to the scene with his dog. Ross police say it all began with a …

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1:18 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

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Update: Trial Delayed for Man Charged in Ross Rapes

Jury selection had been scheduled to begin today for Arthur Lamont Henderson.

A change in defense counsel has delayed the trial of a 38-year-old North Side man charged with raping and robbing two women in Ross, and another in Hopewell, within a four-day period in Ross Township. Arthur Lamont Henderson, who has been in the Allegheny County Jail on a $2.5 million bond since his arrest January 20, had been scheduled to go on trial today. A new trial date is expected to be set today. He has pleaded not guilty. The charges against Henderson stem from two attacks on Ross Township women—one reported Saturday, Jan. 7 at the Woodhawk Club Apartments complex on Johnanna Drive and the other Monday, Jan. 9 at the Cascades Apartment complex off Cemetery Lane. In both cases, the women, who are in their mid-20s, were attacked in …

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Update: Moon Robbery Investigation Spawns SWAT Standoff in Brentwood

Man is transported to UPMC Mercy after police lob tear gas into a house and take him into custody Sunday night

A Brentwood man is being treated this morning at UPMC Mercy Hospital for an injury he received during an hours-long standoff with police who were investigating an armed robbery Sunday at a Moon grocery store. Police did not immediately release the man's name or the nature of his injury after taking him into custody late Sunday. Authorities said he may have suffered a self-inflicted wound during the standoff, which lasted for several hours at a house at 103 Beisner Ave.in Brentwood. Investigators went to that house Sunday afternoon while searching for a black sport-utility vehicle they believed was used by the man who held up the Citizens Bank branch in the Giant Eagle in Moon at 12:15 p.m. In that case, a man wearing shaded glasses walked …

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District Court: Brothers Waive Robbery, Assault Charges to Court

From the office of Magisterial District Judge Robert Ford.

Two brothers waived their right to a preliminary hearing on charges of robbery and criminal conspiracy after investigators said they threatened and robbed a childhood friend at gunpoint. Detectives with the Allegheny County Police also charged Chris Popowich, 23, of Ambridge, and John Gebhardt, 19, of Leet Township, with simple assault, reckless endangerment, terroristic threats, theft and receiving stolen property. Detectives reported that Popowich and Gebhardt, who are brothers, went to a childhood friend's home at 9:30 p.m. Sept. 7 in Leet. The three were having a conversation when Gebhardt and Popowich asked the friend about the contents of a box, detectives said. The friend told them it contained his “valuables.” Detectives said the …

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Sketch Released of Gun Shop Shooter

Man shot clerk at South Fayette gun store.

Allegheny County police have released a composite sketch of the man who robbed a South Fayette gun store and shot its clerk last month. The sketch shows a white man in his late 40s or early 50s with a goatee and wearing a ball cap. Allegheny County police Lt. Andrew Schurman also said investigators think the man left the area in a tan Ford pickup truck. The man walked into Federal Firearms gun shopon June 8 and shot the clerk in the shoulder and hand. The employee, 64-year-old John Lukachyk, survived the shooting and was able to provide a description of the man to investigators. Nearly a dozen area police departments responded to the scene, but were unable to find the shooter. After the shooting, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, …

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Police Blotter

Pittsburgh man sentenced in Sewickley bank robbery.

Sentencing A Pittsburgh man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to a Sewickley bank robbery in 2008, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Pittsburgh. Antoine Riley, 41, of 846 Suismon Street, pleaded guilty to one count of robbery before United States District Judge Joy Flowers Conti, according to a news release. Riley robbed the Sewickley Savings Bank, 531 Broad St., on Dec. 10, 2008, the news Riley’s sentencing is scheduled for 10 a.m. May 13. He could face a maximum of up to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both based upon the seriousness of the offense and criminal history, if any. The FBI, along with the Sewickley and Coraopolis police departments conducted the investigation that led to Riley’s prosecution, the news …