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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A man is now in custody after Pittsburgh police say he attempted to impersonate an ICE agent during a burglary. According to authorities, police were called to a reported burglary in progress Saturday night at a home in the 500 block of Climax Street in the city’s Beltzhoover neighborhood after a landlord said a man smashed a window and broke into a residence. While officers were en route, dispatchers reported that a tenant inside the residence had struck the suspect in the face with an object, knocking him unconscious. Police stated that the suspect, later identified as William Gregory, was found lying unconscious on the floor when officers arrived. Police confirm that a juvenile victim was standing in a doorway with minor injuries to his right ankle and hand and the juvenile told officers that Gregory entered through the kitchen window, went upstairs and shouted that he was an ICE agent demanding to see paperwork. Police then expressed that Gregory then pulled out a pocketknife, threatened to stab the juvenile and began stealing a PlayStation console and controllers and Gregory also forcibly took the juvenile’s cellphone, leading to a physical altercation. Police are planning to request arrest warrants for Gregory based on the investigation and the reported offenses and they expressed that he appeared heavily intoxicated and under the influence of drugs.