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A 36-year-old Rillton man is being held in the county jail on $25,000 bond on following his weekend arrest in which state police accused him of striking his girlfriend with a car as he drove away after an argument.
Ryan J. Dancy was charged with disorderly conduct, harassment and simple assault by state police in Belle Vernon after the 3:30 p.m. Saturday incident that occurred in the parking lot of a Dollar General store at 160 Mt. Pleasant Road in South Huntingdon.
State police were asked to meet at the West Newton police station with a 39-year-old woman who was injured in the store parking lot, Trooper Anthony Parente reported in court documents.
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State police say a Mt. Pleasant Township man stole a pickup truck and led police on a 20-mile pursuit early Thursday.
Seth G. Klingensmith, 24, of Acme, was arrested in Youngwood close to where the stolen 2010 Chevrolet Colorado was abandoned about 6:20 a.m. and believed to have been torched.
Klingensmith has not been charged with arson. He was arraigned on nine counts of reckless endangerment and single counts of fleeing and eluding police, providing false information, receiving stolen property, theft of a motor vehicle and driving on a suspended license. He is also charged with multiple traffic violations.
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A man pulled over by West Newton police early Friday for minor traffic violations was subsequently arrested for possessing heroin and large amounts of marijuana and methamphetamine, according to court documents.
Tyler R. Smiley, 27, of Connellsville, also was charged with carrying a loaded .45-caliber handgun without a license, according to police.
Borough police stopped a 2001 Volkswagen Jetta at the intersection of School and Blackburn streets shortly before 1 a.m. after observing the vehicle only using off-road headlamps, according to Sgt. Alexander Gillingham.
An 88-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Hempfield on Wednesday afternoon.
Elizabeth R. Anderson, of Hempfield, was pronounced dead shortly after 2 p.m., according to the Westmoreland County Coroner’s Office.
The crash occurred at about 1:50 p.m. at Racetrack and Wilson Fox roads, near Hempfield’s border with New Stanton and Youngwood, according to 911 dispatchers.
Anderson was driving a Toyota RAV4 south on Racetrack Road near the Fox Den Acres Campground when she swerved into the wrong lane and off the road. Her SUV struck an embankment and a tree, which flipped the vehicle onto its roof, according to the coroner’s report and state police.