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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Pittsburgh reported via release on Tuesday that fifty-eight-year-old Kenneth Gibson of Gibsonia and sixty-three-year-old Bryan Nicklas of Evans City were both arrested on Tuesday afternoon in Marshall Township for their role in fraudulent inspections in Allegheny County. Anderson is the owner of Irvine Alignment, Inc. in Warrendale and Nicklas is a mechanic for that same company. Anderson completed 161 fraudulent inspections through his company for Keith Smith, who owns Oilology in Cranberry Township. Smith is currently facing charges of deceptive and fraudulent business practices from the Cranberry Township Police Department for not repairing vehicles despite charging his customers to repair vehicles. According to police, Irvine Alignment, Inc. passed a lot of these vehicles for inspection without actually inspecting them. Police confirm that Anderson is being charged with 161 counts of tampering with public records/information (M/2) or information for entering the fraudulent inspections in the government inspection records as well as 267 summary violations regarding inspection station violations. Police state that Nicklas is being charged with 60 counts of tampering with public records/information (M/2) along with 60 summary counts of failing to inspect 60 vehicles of which Smith brought to him.