Friday, April 19, 2013
A pot of food left on stove fills Mooncrest residence with smoke and a car fire of suspicious origin is investigated on Serendipity Drive.
Moon Township Volunteer Fire Department handled back-to-back fires Thursday night—one on Juniper Drive in the Mooncrest neighborhood and the other in the Serendipity apartment complex parking lot. Moon Fire Chief John Scott said firefighters responded to a call at about 10 p.m. involving a structure fire with possible entrapment. When they arrived at the scene, police had already removed a man found on the floor of one of the units. He was taken to Ohio Valley Hospital and his condition is unknown. Firefighters discovered the smoke in the unit was caused by a pot of food left on the gas stove, which filled the house with smoke, Scott said. Then, about 10:30 p.m., Moon VFD received a call that a car was on fire on Serendipity Drive. The …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Police found a man passed out in a Mooncrest home, neglecting a 4-year-old in his care, according to court records.
A Moon Township man discovered drunk and sleeping while a four-year-old girl in his care was unattended in a bathtub will stand trial on charges of child endangerment. Peter Weaver, 31, is accused of neglecting the child on March 21, when a bus driver reported to police that he could not drop off a 7-year-old girl at the home because no one answered the door. The bus driver said he could see a small child running in the home, but no one answered the door. When police arrived at the Oak Drive home, they found the 4-year-old, crying, naked and soiled, sitting inside an empty bathtub. Weaver was sleeping in his underwear in another room. It took police several attempts to wake him. The children's mother left them in Weaver's care that day, …
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
A firm is now reviewing Moon Township's roots as part of an effort to have the Mooncrest neighborhood included in the National Register of Historic Places.
Moon's Historic Architectural Review Board in April will learn more about its effort to have the Mooncrest neighborhood added to the National Register of Historic Places. The designation could aid in restoration efforts in Mooncrest, a cluster of 400 homes situated off Old Thorn Run Road. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission named the neighborhood a historic district in 2004. Lora Dombrowski, Moon's code enforcement officer and a member of Moon Township's Architectural Review Board, said the 42-acre neighborhood was central to life in Moon Township—the community's police department, school and municipal building were all once located in Mooncrest. Constructed in 1943, Mooncrest's homes once housed Neville Island shipyard …
Police say a boyfriend and his girlfriend conspired to threaten a witness in connection to an alleged Mooncrest armed robbery.
Update: A preliminary hearing for Mandy Gumm has been continued until March 26. A Pittsburgh woman faces a preliminary hearing today in Coraopolis on charges she threatened a woman who was expected to testify against her boyfriend in court. Mandy Gumm, 26, contacted a woman in Moon Township and threatened to harm her if she testified against Gumm's boyfriend, 23-year-old Brandon Brown, of Pittsburgh, police allege in a criminal complaint. Police did not release the name of the victim involved in the incident. Moon Police charged Brown with an early morning armed robbery in January. Police said Brown pointed a gun at a cab driver's head in Moon Township's Mooncrest neighborhood and demanded cash. The driver fled and was unharmed in the…
Friday, March 15, 2013
The former driver for the Moon Area School District faces charges for showing nude photos of women to his student passengers. He also photographed teen girls on his bus, according to police.
A former bus driver for the Moon Area School District showed nude images to students and snapped photos of girls as they walked off the school bus, Moon Township Police allege. Robert Lee Williams Jr., 50, of Coraopolis, is accused of showing multiple teenage students photos of nude women on his cell phone, according to a criminal complaint filed by Detective William Lonkert. The bus driver will face a preliminary hearing March 19 in Coraopolis District Court on charges including felony unlawful contact with minors, corruption of minors and dissemination to minors. Williams drove bus No. 145 for the district. The bus route covers areas including the Mooncrest neighborhood, where police allege the incidents took place. School district …
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Moon Police say one of the men pointed a gun at the cab driver's head, demanding money.
Two Pittsburgh men accused of robbing a cab driver at gunpoint in Moon Township's Mooncrest neighborhood are heading to trial. Brandon Brown, 23, and Lyndard Grace, 23, each appeared Tuesday in Coraopolis District Court in connection to the incident. Moon Police said the men were riding in a Yellow Cab taxi early on Jan. 23, when Brown pulled a silver Raven Arms revolver and pointed it at the cab driver's head, demanding money. The cab driver unbuckled his seatbelt and ran toward Thorn Run Road, where he contacted police on his cell phone, according to a criminal complaint. Brown and Grace were held for court following a preliminary hearing Tuesday on charges including robbery, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and receiving …
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Police find a man wanted for the slaying of a peace activist in Moon Township's Mooncrest neighborhood.
Allegheny County Police today found a 19-year-old man wanted on homicide charges in Moon Township's Mooncrest neighborhood. Sean Overton, who has ties to both the West End and McKees Rocks, was taken into custody just before 11 a.m. today after police located him at his mother's Cedar Drive home. The teen is charged with the slaying of McKees Rocks artist and peace activist Isaiah Dent, according to a county police statement. Dent, 61, was found dead Monday morning in his McKees Rocks apartment after family members requested that police conduct a welfare check at his residence. He was found with blunt trauma to his head and puncture wounds on his face. Overton, who is accused of beating Dent to death, is lodged at the Allegheny County …
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Police trace footprints in the snow to a home, where they find two men suspected of committing the holdup.
Moon Township Police said a Yellow Cab taxi driver fled from his vehicle after two men robbed him at gunpoint Wednesday on Cedar Drive. Police have charged Brandon Brown, 23, and Lynard Grace Jr., 23, both of Pittsburgh, with felony robbery and aggravated assault in the incident. Police said the cab driver picked up Brown, Grace and an unidentified woman at 3:15 a.m. Wednesday in McKees Rocks. The group instructed the driver to go to Coraopolis and then to the Mooncrest neighborhood in Moon Township. When the vehicle arrived just before 4 a.m. at the 400 block of Cedar Drive, the woman got out of the cab and went into a home on the street. Brown, who was seated in the front seat of the cab, pulled out a silver Raven Arms revolver and …
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
The Moon Township Historic Architectural Review Board announces the winners of its photo-submission contest.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
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Wednesday, January 16
They're snapshots depicting Mooncrest's past—a black and white photograph of of children on Oak Drive, friends posing for a group picture in 1943. The Moon Township Historic Architectural Review Board has selected winners for its historic photograph contest. The effort was apart of an ongoing project to preserve the Mooncrest neighborhood's history. The 42-acre neighborhood, constructed in 1943 by the U.S. Department of Defense, was home to Neville Island shipyard workers and their families before its housing stock was sold to private landlords in the 1950s. Now, Moon Township's Historic Architectural Review Board is launching an effort to earn Mooncrest a spot on the National Register of Historic Places. The neighborhood was named a …
Monday, January 7, 2013
The Moon Township Historic Architectural Review Board is seeking historic photos of the Mooncrest neighborhood.
Moon residents can submit historic photographs by 4:30 p.m. Tuesday for consideration in the township's Historic Architectural Review Board photo contest. The board will offer a $100 prize for the best photo of the Mooncrest neighborhood taken prior to 1968. A $50 prize will be awarded to the second-place winner; a $25 prize will go to the third-place photograph. The committee hopes to have the historic neighborhood, constructed in 1943, added to the National Register of Historic Places. Photos compiled will be used in the application for that effort. The winner will be announced at the board's Jan. 9 meeting. Photographs should include streetscapes, buildings and former residents and must be turned in to the Moon Township Municipal …
Lynn
8:24 pm on Thursday, April 4, 2013
The child's mother lied about everything, she didn't hire him she's sleeping with him and used him as a babysitter. She should be the one there looking at for being a bad mother and a horrible person more ›