Crime & Safety

Moon Man Steals Mercedes, Breaks into Kmart

The 19-year-old has also been charged in connection to a Sewickley incident.

said the same man who burglarized a Moon Township also stole a Mercedes Benz earlier this month from Hookstown Grade Road. 

Johnathan Michael Jaquay, 19, of Colony West Drive, is charged with burglary, criminal conspiracy and theft by unlawful taking after police said he broke into Kmart on Beaver Grade Road on Nov. 1 and stole video games, electronics and more than 100 packs of cigarettes. 

He was also charged Jan. 5 with theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property after police said he took a set of car keys from a Hookstown Grade Road office and drove off with a black four-door C300 Mercedes Benz.

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Police said Jaquay entered Kmart through a rear garage door at 1 a.m. Nov. 1, after the store was closed. 

Images from the store's surveillance camera show a man whom police say is Jaquay wearing a white and black mask such as the one featured in the film Scream, a dark hooded sweatshirt and gloves. After entering the store, Jaquay took several cartons of cigarettes, video games, controllers and an iPod docking station, according to reports. 

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A relative later told police she believed Jaquay might have been involved in the Kmart burglary and a recent robbery at Speedy's in Coraopolis. 

Police said on the morning of Jan. 5, Jaquay walked into a Hookstown Grade Road office and took a pair of keys for a black Mercedes Benz that were on a front desk. He drove the car to College Park Drive but took the keys for the vehicle back to his Colony West apartment. 

Jaquay confessed to the burglary and car theft while police questioned him. Police found the keys to the Mercedes during a search of Jaquay's apartment. 

He has also been charged with theft, receiving stolen property, criminal trespassing and burglary in connection to a November incident in Sewickley, according to court records.

Jaquay is scheduled to appear today in Coraopolis District Court for a preliminary hearing. 


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