State troopers are looking for the man they believe held up a gas station cashier at gunpoint last week in Franklin Township. They think Dakota Scheetz entered the 7-Eleven store on East High Street Thursday with a gun. The 22-year-old reportedly demanded two cartons of cigarettes then fled on foot with the smokes. Investigators say they found Scheetz’s Facebook profile picture in which he’s wearing the same Bob Marley t-shirt worn during the robbery. Anyone with information on Scheetz’s whereabouts is asked to contact police.

Another loaded gun was stopped from being taken onto a plane at Pittsburgh International Airport. The Transportation Security Administration says agents found a small handgun loaded with six bullets and one in the chamber at a checkpoint Tuesday. The gun was confiscated and the man from Johnston was detained for questioning. This marks the 27th gun TSA agents have caught this year.

A 91-year-old man from Ellwood City is again facing charges for urinating in public. John Sidor is accused of relieving himself in the Giant Eagle parking lot on Route 228 in Franklin Township while another shopper was unloading groceries in a vehicle next to his. A manager at the store told police Sidor has done this several times before and he pleaded guilty in July to disorderly conduct for a similar incident. His preliminary hearing is set for September 9th.

Pittsburgh police say a Brighton Heights man was in his early 40s when he began a years-long sexual relationship with a teenage girl that led to three pregnancies before she turned 18. 55-year-old Michael Anthony Wilson was charged Wednesday with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, statutory sexual assault and other offenses. A police affidavit says that the victim, who is now 26, told investigators that she had been in an “intimate relationship” with Wilson beginning around 2005 when she was just 13. The relationship continued over a period of about five years. According to the affidavit, Wilson got the victim pregnant when she was 14, 15 and 17 years old…and she had abortions when she was 14 and 17 and gave birth to a child from her pregnancy at age 15. The victim said told investigators that Wilson knew how old she was at the time and said that several of her family members confronted him.

Authorities say a Beaver County man will face a federal judge today for sentencing in a child pornography case. Randolph Guy Gum pleaded guilty in May to charges related to the production and sharing of explicit images. Gum admitted to enticing a minor to perform sex acts on camera and then sharing those images over the Internet.

The cleanup of a Beaver County chemical explosion is expected to take a few more months. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection officials say the former swimming pool supply store in Rochester is posing a host of challenges, including an unstable building and unlabeled chemical barrels. Last month’s blast forced neighbors to shelter-in-place until an all-clear was sounded.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, AUGUST 29TH, 2019

 

TODAY – ABUNDANT SUNSHINE. HIGH NEAR 80.

TONIGHT – MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW – 65.

FRIDAY – PARTLY SUNNY SKIES. HIGH – 82.

SATURDAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 78.

SUNDAY – VARIABLE CLOUDS WITH SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH – 78.

LABOR DAY MONDAY – INTERVALS OF CLOUDS AND
SUNSHINE. A STRAY SHOWRE OR
THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLE.
HIGH – 82.

(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

The Commissioners’ work session at the Beaver County Courthouse ran through a bevy of notable topics during their delayed session on Wednesday; delayed due to a prior 8:30 meeting with the Beaver County Conservation District running late due to an extended public participation.

When the Commissioners did arrive and Chairman Dan Camp called the session to order, the BOC was presented with an update on the County Budget by financial advisor Corey Troutman. Troutman said that though the County is still in solid shape financially, more work needs done in order to be comfortable:

 

Also discussed at the meeting was the new storage area in the County Courthouse for confiscated guns seized in arrests and indictments. Commissioner Sandie Egley had some concerns about the necessity for such an area as well as which guns would be confiscated; such concerns were echoed by Commissioner Tony Amadio as well. But District Attorney David Lozier reaffirmed the necessity of the new gun storage area, as well as clarifying a couple concerns:

 

Towards the end of the meeting (instead of the usual middle), Solicitor Garen Fedeles addressed his report, including the possibility that Beaver County could be heading to court with several other Pennsylvania counties in an ongoing lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson:

 

The announcement by Fedeles comes on the heels of the ruling earlier this week against Johnson & Johnson in Oklahoma that will cost the company over $500 million dollars (pending appeal).