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Allegheny County Police have charged a 29-year-old Pitcairn man in connection with the rape of an 11-year-old girl.
Joshua Davon Austin-Pollard faces multiple felonies, including rape and sexual assault.
Police say the events took place at Austin-Pollard’s Third Street home three days after Christmas. The charges also include interference with custody of children, corruption of minors and aggravated indecent assault.
A preliminary hearing for Austin-Pollard was held at Monroeville’s district court March 1, where Judge Jeffrey Herbst dropped a charge of dissemination of explicit sexual material to a minor, said Sgt. Matt Mineard of Allegheny County Police Department’s general investigations unit.
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There have been a total of five burglaries in Fox Chapel and O’Hara over the past two weeks, according to police in the two communities.
Fox Chapel police Chief David Laux said the burglaries in the borough all happened the same night, Jan. 29, along Fairview Road.
Laux said his department is working in conjunction with Allegheny County Police and City of Pittsburgh Police to find the suspects, who were seen in surveillance video wearing masks and gloves. He said police are on the lookout for a maroon van with out-of-state license plates.