SCOTT TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A New Castle resident was accused of assaulting a 13-year-old girl on Wednesday.
Police said Joshua Sunday, 26, made multiple inappropriate comments and actions against the victim between Oct. 23 and Oct. 29.
The incidents happened in Scott Township.
Sunday is charged with indecent assault and unlawful contact with a minor.
He is currently being held in the Lawrence County Jail.
http://www.wpxi.com/news/21587217/detail.html
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Police accuse man in slashing
ELLWOOD CITY - Ellwood City police used an ankle monitor Thursday night to help their police dog track a man accused of slashing his girlfriend with a kitchen knife.
John Paul Huddy, 35, of 216 Third St., Ellwood City, was charged Friday morning with aggravated assault, simple assault, making terroristic threats and unlawful restraint.
In documents filed with the office of District Judge Jerry Cartwright Jr., Ellwood City police Officer Michael McBride said Huddy had gotten into an argument around 10 p.m. Thursday with his girlfriend, Michelle Delposen, at his home.
During the argument, Delposen told police, Huddy picked up a kitchen knife and punched her. McBride said Delposen had a minor injury on her throat from the knife and an injured lip from the punch.
Delposen then tried to get away from the house, but Huddy
caught her and pulled her back into the building. At this time, she fell and injured her knee, police said.
When she sought refuge in a bathroom, she said, Huddy threatened to kill her, then himself, with the knife.
Delposen called a friend, Ryan Goehring, who went to the house, where Huddy confronted him, police said.
McBride said Huddy picked up a brick and threatened to kill Goehring with it before using the kitchen knife to cut off his ankle-bracelet monitor and fleeing the building.
Pennsylvania court records indicate Huddy has a criminal history dating to 2001, when he pleaded guilty to hunting without a license and was fined $141.50. He pleaded guilty to criminal mischief in 2007 and was fined $319.50.
His criminal history also includes charges earlier this year of escape and criminal mischief, which were waived to court. Huddy also has faced other charges including manufacture, delivery or possession of controlled substances with intent to deliver, criminal mischief, theft and receiving stolen property.
It is unclear which, if any, of those offenses were the reason Huddy was wearing the ankle monitor. Personnel from Lawrence County's Department of Adult Probation said the office has a policy not to release information on people adjudicated through its office.
Police said Huddy left the house before officers arrived, but McBride - handler for Ellwood City's police dog, Jozek - said the dog was able to pick up Huddy's scent through the ankle monitor.
Jozek tracked Huddy along Third Street and a series of alleys in the Pittsburgh Circle neighborhood. McBride called other officers to establish a perimeter in the area, and Huddy was taken into custody at Mulberry and Apple ways.
Huddy was arraigned and placed in the Lawrence County Jail after failing to put up $25,000 bond.
http://ellwoodcityledger.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20371434&BRD=2724&PAG=461&dept_id=563781&rfi=6
John Paul Huddy, 35, of 216 Third St., Ellwood City, was charged Friday morning with aggravated assault, simple assault, making terroristic threats and unlawful restraint.
In documents filed with the office of District Judge Jerry Cartwright Jr., Ellwood City police Officer Michael McBride said Huddy had gotten into an argument around 10 p.m. Thursday with his girlfriend, Michelle Delposen, at his home.
During the argument, Delposen told police, Huddy picked up a kitchen knife and punched her. McBride said Delposen had a minor injury on her throat from the knife and an injured lip from the punch.
Delposen then tried to get away from the house, but Huddy
caught her and pulled her back into the building. At this time, she fell and injured her knee, police said.
When she sought refuge in a bathroom, she said, Huddy threatened to kill her, then himself, with the knife.
Delposen called a friend, Ryan Goehring, who went to the house, where Huddy confronted him, police said.
McBride said Huddy picked up a brick and threatened to kill Goehring with it before using the kitchen knife to cut off his ankle-bracelet monitor and fleeing the building.
Pennsylvania court records indicate Huddy has a criminal history dating to 2001, when he pleaded guilty to hunting without a license and was fined $141.50. He pleaded guilty to criminal mischief in 2007 and was fined $319.50.
His criminal history also includes charges earlier this year of escape and criminal mischief, which were waived to court. Huddy also has faced other charges including manufacture, delivery or possession of controlled substances with intent to deliver, criminal mischief, theft and receiving stolen property.
It is unclear which, if any, of those offenses were the reason Huddy was wearing the ankle monitor. Personnel from Lawrence County's Department of Adult Probation said the office has a policy not to release information on people adjudicated through its office.
Police said Huddy left the house before officers arrived, but McBride - handler for Ellwood City's police dog, Jozek - said the dog was able to pick up Huddy's scent through the ankle monitor.
Jozek tracked Huddy along Third Street and a series of alleys in the Pittsburgh Circle neighborhood. McBride called other officers to establish a perimeter in the area, and Huddy was taken into custody at Mulberry and Apple ways.
Huddy was arraigned and placed in the Lawrence County Jail after failing to put up $25,000 bond.
http://ellwoodcityledger.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20371434&BRD=2724&PAG=461&dept_id=563781&rfi=6
Man arrested after domestic dispute
Published July 21, 2009 08:53 am -
NEW LOCAL: Man arrested after domestic dispute
New Castle News
NEW LOCAL: Man arrested after domestic dispute
New Castle News
An Enon Valley man was arrested following a domestic dispute Saturday.
Pennsylvania State Police charged Shawn Allen Martin, 52, with simple assault, a second-degree misdemeanor, after an incident at 5:45 p.m. Saturday in Little Beaver Township.
Police said Martin threw and struck a woman with a plastic lawn chair, causing injury.
Martin was arraigned Saturday before District Judge Scott McGrath and was released on a $1,000 unsecured bond.
Martin’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. July 28 before District Judge Jerry G. Cartwright.
http://www.ncnewsonline.com/local/local_story_202085412.html
Veterinarian’s employee also faces charges
Published December 23, 2008 09:14 am - Connie Fay Glavan, a veterinary technician, also faces charges after her boss was accused of attempting to drug her boyfriend.
ALLEGED DRUGGING: Veterinarian’s employee also faces charges
By Nancy Lowry
New Castle News
ALLEGED DRUGGING: Veterinarian’s employee also faces charges
By Nancy Lowry
New Castle News
Connie Fay Glavan, a veterinary technician, also faces charges after her boss was accused of attempting to drug her boyfriend.
Glavan, 38, of 601 Denny Drive was charged with one count of criminal conspiracy to violate the controlled substance act and with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.
Court papers filed Friday indicate the charges stem from Glavan’s alleged compliance in providing 50 Adderall capsules to Dr. Cynthia Maro.
Maro, 46, whose veterinary practice is at 728 Lawrence Ave., is charged with criminal conspiracy to violate the controlled substance act; acquiring a controlled substance by fraud, forgery or deception; dispensing, delivery or providing a controlled substance by a practitioner, which is a violation of the controlled substance act; and recklessly endangering another person.
Glavan is employed at Maro’s Ellwood City and Chippewa animal hospitals.
Both women were arraigned Friday morning before District Judge Jerry Cartwright and released on non-monetary bail. Preliminary hearings have been scheduled for Jan. 14 in Lawrence County Central Court.
Narcotics agents with the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General Bureau of Narcotics Investigation and Drug Control, who filed the charges, said that in addition to obtaining and providing controlled drugs on Aug. 8 and Sept. 18, Glavan conspired with Maro to unlawfully acquire Adderall, a controlled substance.
Maro is alleged to have tampered with her now ex-boyfriend’s vitamin supplements.
According to the complaint, Maro wrote several prescriptions for Adderall for an employee’s dog, Kaiser. The employee then allegedly filled the prescriptions and gave the drug to Maro.
Adderall is used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy in humans and for hyperactivity in animals. It is often used in dog training.
According to the criminal complaint, investigators received an anonymous letter in September alleging possible illegal activities at Maro’s office.
The letter alleged that Maro had prescribed Adderall in the name of Kaiser Glavan, a dog that belongs to Maro’s office manager. The letter stated that Glavan allegedly filled the prescription then gave the drug to Maro, who allegedly added it to herbal supplements taken by her boyfriend.
Court papers said ultimately two prescriptions for Adderall, in the name of the dog, were filled by Glavan and provided to Maro.
Glavan told agents her dog did not receive any of the drugs, and she did not know what use Maro had for them.
On Oct. 2, the complaint said, agents interviewed Maro at the Ellwood City facility. The veterinarian confirmed the Adderall was never intended to be given to Glavan’s dog, the complaint stated, but was given to her son’s dog, Spots, to control its behavior. She allegedly told agents she did not believe it was legal for her to write the prescription in the name of her son’s dog.
After further questioning, she allegedly confessed that “on a few occasions” she mixed small amounts of Adderall with nutritional supplements including protein shakes, consumed by her boyfriend, who had no idea he was ingesting the drug. She described the boyfriend as “abusive” in their relationship and thought the drug would help her to control his behavior. Agents said she told them her intention was to observe the boyfriend and if his behavior improved, to enlist the aid of his mother to convince him to take Adderall prescribed by a physician. Following the interview, agents said, Maro voluntarily surrendered her privileges to write prescriptions for controlled substances. http://www.ncnewsonline.com/topstories/local_story_358091512.html?start:int=0
Police: Local Vet Confesses To Drugging Boyfriend
Dec 19, 2008 11:56 pm US/Eastern
Police: Local Vet Confesses To Drugging Boyfriend
(KDKA)-
- Dr. Cynthia Maro is now facing drug charges and a charge of recklessly endangering another person.
KDKA
Investigators say that Dr. Cynthia Maro, who works at the Ellwood Animal Hospital in Lawrence County, confessed to them that on a few occasions she spiked her boyfriend's protein shakes with the drug.
Authorities say Dr. Maro allegedly asked a veterinary technician to do her a favor, she would write a prescription for the drug, Adderal, in the name of the tech's dog.
Police say the tech, identified as Connie Glaven, would then have the prescription filled and give the capsules to Maro. It allegedly happened twice.
Glaven is now facing a conspiracy charge.
According to court papers, Maro first told investigators that she gave the drug to her son's dog, but later confessed she gave it to her boyfriend.
Officials say she told the investigators who came to visit her that her boyfriend was abusive and she thought it might help control his behavior.
Adderall is prescribed for attention deficit disorder in humans.
Dr. Maro allegedly said she slipped it into her boyfriend's nutritional supplements and protein shakes without him knowing, authorities say.
KDKA's David Highfield reports that Maro is not in jail, but no one answered the door Friday evening when he knocked.
A neighbor told KDKA that Maro is a nice woman.
She is now facing drug charges and a charge of recklessly endangering another person.
http://kdka.com/local/veterinarian.boyfriend.drugged.2.891868.html
Jury acquits woman of all assault charges
The verdict reflected
reasonable doubt, the jury foreman said.
By JEANNE STARMACK
VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER
NEW CASTLE — A woman who was charged with aggravated and simple assault after a struggle with a man who’s now the Lawrence County treasurer was acquitted on both charges Friday.
Jury foreman Joe Donofrio of New Castle said the jury believed there was no proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Fawn Cox, 28, of New Castle intended to harm Richard L. Rapone.
City police charged Cox after an altercation that happened outside her apartment at Westview Terrace on Beech Street on Oct. 26, 2006. Her trial began Thursday in county common pleas court after she could not agree earlier in the week to a lesser charge of harassment.
Rapone, who became county treasurer in January, was still at work at his old job as a collections agent for Pennsylvania Power’s Mill Street office in New Castle. He was at Cox’s apartment that day to shut off her power because she hadn’t paid her bill.
After Rapone turned off the power, he and Cox struggled in his car in the apartment complex parking lot.
In Pennsylvania, utility workers get the same protection as a police officer or jail guard under the assault laws. Police were able to charge Cox with the most serious of the assault charges, aggravated assault, after Rapone reported the altercation.
That charge and the charge of simple assault were too serious to apply to the situation, Cox’s attorney, public defender Harry Falls, had argued. He told the jury assembled in the courtroom of Judge Thomas Piccione that the altercation happened outside the scope of Rapone’s duties — he had shut off the power and was in his car getting ready to leave. He also argued that Cox never intended to harm Rapone, and that the struggle was mutual.
Cox testified that she had reached into Rapone’s car to shut off the ignition because she didn’t want him to leave before talking to a Penn Power representative who was on the phone in her apartment. She had been trying to arrange payment with the company when Rapone went to her meter and shut off her power, she testified.
She also testified that during his visit to her apartment, Rapone was rude and appeared not to care when she told him her 7-year-old daughter uses a breathing machine each night because of asthma. The machine requires electricity.
She said Penn Power told her on the phone that her electricity should not be shut off because of the girl’s need for the machine.
She said that when she tried to tell Rapone about her daughter’s asthma, he told her: “That sounds like a personal problem.”
Rapone testified that he was not rude, that he behaved in a professional manner throughout the visit and remained calm, even when Cox leaned into his car and the struggle began. He testifed that it was Cox, not him, who was verbally abusive throughout his visit to her apartment. He testified that at the car, she repeatedly hit and scratched him.
Judge Piccione told the jury that they had to consider whether there was evidence Cox had intended to harm Rapone as they were weighing each charge against her.
Donofrio said the verdict “came down to reasonable doubt.”
“There was not enough evidence she intended to harm [Rapone],” he said.
He said the jury saw evidence of scratches on Rapone in a photograph a police officer took of him after the altercation. He said they saw evidence in the photo that there might have been some bruising on his chin, but: “We couldn’t tell if it was serious.”
The jury believed Cox reached into Rapone’s car, Donofrio said, but both parties were defensive. “He pushed and she pushed,” he said.
Rapone did not go to a hospital after the altercation. He testified he went back to the Penn Power office and treated himself with a first aid kit, then called police.
Penn Power restored Cox’s power the same day he shut it off because of the daughter’s need for the breathing machine.
Missing-kids probe spurs more charges
A preliminary hearing is set for Friday for Dennis Reed.
By LAURE CIOFFI
VINDICATOR NEW CASTLE BUREAU
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- The investigation into the weeklong disappearance of three children whose mother turned up dead Sunday has yielded more charges after police talked to one of the children.
Dennis Reed, 30, also known as Chuck, faces two additional kidnapping charges in Lawrence County. He had originally faced one count of kidnapping after being arrested Saturday in Butler, Pa.
The three children, ages 5, 6 and 8, were found unharmed with Reed, but police discovered cocaine and a firearm on him. He was jailed after failing to post $50,000 bond on drug and firearm charges filed by Butler police.
The children's mother, Wendy Miller, 28, of Sankey Street was found Sunday along the banks of Neshannock Creek in New Castle. An autopsy revealed that she died of a gunshot wound to the back of her head sometime around Dec. 16. Miller's brother reported her and the three children missing Dec. 17.
Search warrants: District Attorney Matthew Mangino said that they are still investigating her death and that no one has been charged. Police have executed search warrants looking for the shotgun that killed her, he said. Mangino would not comment on what was found.
According to an affidavit filed to support the additional kidnapping charges, Reed, who police said is a boyfriend of Miller's forced his way into her home Dec. 15 and punched her.
One of the children told police that Miller and Reed went into another room, where they were heard arguing, and then Miller came back and instructed the children to get dressed, the court document said.
Reed drove Miller and the three children to Neshannock Village, a public housing complex in New Castle, where they left the children in the car and Miller and Reed walked to the nearby woods, the affidavit said.
Reed returned alone and drove the children to Butler. They lived out of a vehicle until they were found, the court document said.
Reed is expected to appear Friday before District Justice Melissa Amodie for a preliminary hearing on the original kidnapping charge. Amodie said he will be arraigned on the two additional kidnapping charges at that time.
Protection order: Court documents show that Miller did have a temporary protection-from-abuse order against Reed, which instructed him to stay away from Miller and her children. It stemmed from Dec. 13, when Miller told police that Reed slapped, choked and threatened to kill her, according to court papers.
The two were scheduled to appear in court last Friday to determine if the protection-from-abuse order would become permanent.
Mangino said it was unclear if Reed had ever been served with those papers before Miller's death.
http://www.vindy.com/news/2001/dec/27/missing-kids-probe-spurs-more-charges/
By LAURE CIOFFI
VINDICATOR NEW CASTLE BUREAU
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- The investigation into the weeklong disappearance of three children whose mother turned up dead Sunday has yielded more charges after police talked to one of the children.
Dennis Reed, 30, also known as Chuck, faces two additional kidnapping charges in Lawrence County. He had originally faced one count of kidnapping after being arrested Saturday in Butler, Pa.
The three children, ages 5, 6 and 8, were found unharmed with Reed, but police discovered cocaine and a firearm on him. He was jailed after failing to post $50,000 bond on drug and firearm charges filed by Butler police.
The children's mother, Wendy Miller, 28, of Sankey Street was found Sunday along the banks of Neshannock Creek in New Castle. An autopsy revealed that she died of a gunshot wound to the back of her head sometime around Dec. 16. Miller's brother reported her and the three children missing Dec. 17.
Search warrants: District Attorney Matthew Mangino said that they are still investigating her death and that no one has been charged. Police have executed search warrants looking for the shotgun that killed her, he said. Mangino would not comment on what was found.
According to an affidavit filed to support the additional kidnapping charges, Reed, who police said is a boyfriend of Miller's forced his way into her home Dec. 15 and punched her.
One of the children told police that Miller and Reed went into another room, where they were heard arguing, and then Miller came back and instructed the children to get dressed, the court document said.
Reed drove Miller and the three children to Neshannock Village, a public housing complex in New Castle, where they left the children in the car and Miller and Reed walked to the nearby woods, the affidavit said.
Reed returned alone and drove the children to Butler. They lived out of a vehicle until they were found, the court document said.
Reed is expected to appear Friday before District Justice Melissa Amodie for a preliminary hearing on the original kidnapping charge. Amodie said he will be arraigned on the two additional kidnapping charges at that time.
Protection order: Court documents show that Miller did have a temporary protection-from-abuse order against Reed, which instructed him to stay away from Miller and her children. It stemmed from Dec. 13, when Miller told police that Reed slapped, choked and threatened to kill her, according to court papers.
The two were scheduled to appear in court last Friday to determine if the protection-from-abuse order would become permanent.
Mangino said it was unclear if Reed had ever been served with those papers before Miller's death.
http://www.vindy.com/news/2001/dec/27/missing-kids-probe-spurs-more-charges/