Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published April 6, 2023

(Rochester, PA) A male wanted on domestic violence charges  was believed to be in a Rochester home 286 Jefferson Street in Rochester Borough Tuesday night.  DA David J. Lozier said a search warrant was issued for the home after the police asked for assistance from the ESU so they could enter the residence. They asked that the ESU assist them because the suspect was known to have firearms in the past. DA Lozier said the man barricaded himself in the house and they spent 4 hours trying to get him to surrender, they found him after they entered the home. Five persons for harboring a fugitive and the fugitive were charged, arraigned on $100,000 bond each, approved by the district justice in Aliquippa and jailed.