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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle report that forty-three-year-old Robert Lis of Pittsburgh got apprehended on August 11th, 2025 for allegedly assaulting and strangling a woman from Pittsburgh in Plain Grove Township of Lawrence County that day. The Pennsylvania State Police got dispatched because of an assault report. Lis allegedly assaulted an unidentified sixty-six-year-old woman from Pittsburgh on I-79 South and when police arrived, they observed injuries to the woman. Lis was taken into custody based on the statements of the woman that was allegedly assaulted by Lis. Lis will face charges that will be filed against him in the future.