Courtesy of Allegheny County Police
Allegheny County Police said a North Carolina man stole this maintenance truck and crashed it into a building at Pittsburgh International Airport on Friday.
Courtesy of Allegheny County Police
Allegheny County Police said a North Carolina man stole this maintenace truck and crashed it into a building at Pittsburgh International Airport on Friday.
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Police say a North Carolina man took a maintenance truck and drove it into a building at Pittsburgh International Airport.
Allegheny County Police said they were dispatched around 6 p.m. Friday for a report of a vehicle driven into a structure.
A Baldwin man has been charged with arson in connection with a Thursday fire along Revo Road.
Vincent Chalmers, 46, is charged with two counts of endangering people by arson and one count of endangering property by arson.
In a criminal complaint filed against Chalmers, police said Richard Revo told them he saw Chalmers throwing gasoline on the side of the house and on its front porch.
Chalmers, who goes by the nickname of “Moe,” was then seen entering the house through the front door, “still throwing gasoline,” according to the complaint.
Revo told police he is the owner of the house that Chalmers set ablaze. The house used to belong to his grandparents, but he has been renting it out to the Chalmers family for 40 years, he said.
DeWitt Walton On April 27, Allegheny County Council voted to create an Independent Police Review Board for the county police department after a two-year effort to create a commission that would provide oversight and accountability to the region’s second largest police force. Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said he supports the measure and will sign the ordinance, which passed by a vote of 9-5. The review board will be established in 2022, with nine members and will have jurisdiction over the Allegheny County Police Department. Other municipal departments throughout the county can opt-in to the review board. The bill was supported by nine of the 12 Democrats on council, and was opposed by three Democrats and two Republicans.
A divided Allegheny County Council on Tuesday approved creating an independent police review board.
The board won’t be created until 2022 and it will only have jurisdiction over Allegheny County Police Department.
Other municipalities with police departments in the county can opt-in to the board’s oversight, but that move would need to be approved by their local governments.
The vote to create the board was 9-5. In a statement released after the vote, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said he would sign the bill into law.
“I look forward to working with our municipal partners so that we can include as many police departments as possible in this effort,” Fitzgerald said. “This bill, and the resulting board, will provide an additional avenue for public accountability from law enforcement in our region. This is a great opportunity for the region moving forward.”
Allegheny County residents will again have input about creating an independent police review board. But council may have already approved the legislation if the meeting is even held. “This is a very important issue that establishes a newly created board and I believe every resident that wants to be heard