(Photo Courtesy of the Allegheny County Jail)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Moon Township, PA) Anthony Quesen pleaded guilty, but mentally ill yesterday to third degree-murder, specifically, for stabbing and killing a liquor enforcement officer from the Pennsylvania State Police on the Montour Trail in Moon Township on October 21st, 2024. According to a news release on October 21st, 2024 from the Allegheny County Police Department, officers were called to the Montour Trail near the 1900 block of Hassam Road around 3 p.m. for reports of an injured man. Forty-four-year-old Benjamin Brallier of Coraopolis was the victim of that stabbing on October 21st, 2024 when he went for a run on the Montour Trail that day. Brallier also got taken to a hospital and was then pronounced dead there on the same day. Brallier had served for twenty-one years in his position as a Liquor Enforcement Officer with the Pennsylvania State Police. Court paperwork confirms that Brallier was stabbed in his back, front and torso multiple times. Police also note that Brallier and Quesen did not know each other. According to a criminal complaint, police located Quesen about a third of a mile from the scene with cuts to his hands and blood stains on his clothes. Quesen allegedly told police Brallier took his bag and that he was stabbed by Brallier. Investigators confirm that a blood trail was seen from where Brallier was found to a bike that was on the Montour Trail at the time after Brallier got stabbed. A bag near that bike on the Montour Trail was where the ID of Quesen was also located. Quesen also got accused in June of 2024 of evading arrest and robbery with force at Point State Park, located in Downtown Pittsburgh. According to court documents, they told police their name was Antonia Kaseim, but later provided the last name of Quesen. Quesen also got called a “person of interest” in the case of seventy-six-year-old Daniel Frament getting attacked and killed in Menands, New York on the Empire State Trail. Quesen, who uses that name of Antonia Kaseim, will be sentenced for the murder of Brallier in November of 2025.