Westmoreland County Common Pleas Judge Christopher Feliciani on Wednesday declared a mistrial after jurors were prepped to deliberate on aggravated assault, strangulation and unlawful restraint charges against Glenn Whittier, 52, of Greensburg. According to court staffers, the mistrial ruling came after it was discovered that a juror had communicated with
Mitzy Cordova thought for sure she was going to die at the hands of her boyfriend in a Greensburg apartment in early 2021. “I was terrified and I thought this was it and I wasn’t going to make it,” Cordova testified Tuesday in the first day in the aggravated assault
A man who tried to disarm a police officer as he was being discharged from a Greensburg hospital did so in an attempt to end his own life, his lawyer said. “My client grabbed the pistol to have the officer shoot him. He wanted to commit suicide by officer because
A Westmoreland County jury on Wednesday convicted a Trafford man of aggravated assault and other offenses in connected with the violent assault against his estranged girlfriend. The jury convicted Alfred Tournay III, 55, of 12 counts, but acquitted him of three felony aggravated assault charges in connection with attacks on
Kelly Ferraro was outside warming up her car on a snowy morning in December 2020 when she spotted her neighbor’s live-in boyfriend yelling on the steps outside of his Trafford home. She instantly knew something as wrong, she told a Westmoreland County jury Tuesday. “Her boyfriend was standing on the