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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) A couple from Aliquippa faced a judge for the first time yesterday at a hearing after they were accused of threatening a woman with a gun, kidnapping her, and taking her as far as the Allentown neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The incident started in Aliquippa on November 17th, 2025 and the suspects who were taken into custody were Tyrone Turner and his girlfriend, Ariel Harper. The woman who was kidnapped testified at the hearing and she stated she was work-friends with Harper and had asked if she could come over and do laundry instead of going to the laundromat. After that, the couple picked her up, but an argument about money ensued in the car and when they went to the apartment of Harper, the female victim also testified that Turner pointeda gun at her. The woman fought with Harper over her purse and phone, saying Harper took both in the car and Turner dangled the purse out the window and threatened to drop it. The woman also said that Turner threatened that he was going to have her raped and murdered, but she then jumped out of the car at a red light in Beechview after she noticed she saw signs for Pittsburgh and ran to an antique store before calling 911.Harper and Turner had several charges like robbery and conspiracy dropped by a judge to commit robbery charges from the duoafter defense attorneys made an argument that they did not rob or try to rob the victim. The judge kept the kidnapping charges for a trial for Harper and Turner and January of 2026 is when they are due back in court.