(File Photo of Handcuffs)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) Twenty-seven-year-old Robert Howard got accused of stealing a truck of a male delivery driver, then dragging him around 100 yards on the South Side of Pittsburgh recently. The charges for Howard include fleeing from police, robbery, theft by unlawful taking, aggravated assault and more. The victim let police know that he was making a delivery to a house on South 21st Street and Howard was seen in his truck when he came out of that house. According to the criminal complaint, the victim said Howard hit the gas as he grabbed one of the door handles and was dragged roughly 100 yards. Howard is in the Allegheny County Jail and was not able to post bond after he was arrested at gunpoint in the South Side Slopea on Saint Thomas Street. Police used surveillance cameras to track the truck that Howard was driving before he was apprehended.