Friday, January 25, 2013
Two men accused of breaking-in to two Scott Township homes in the Birdland neighborhood earlier this month are heading to trial on burglary and other charges.
Two men accused of breaking-in to two Scott Township homes earlier this month are heading to trial on burglary and other charges. Brian Butt, 27, of Bridgeville, and Grant Goeckeler, 29, of Scott, are accused of burglarizing a home in the 1300 block of Meadowlark Drive shortly on Jan. 8. Scott Township police said the resident came home and found the door open and markings on a rear door. Police said they later found Butt and Goeckeler nearby with some of the items allegedly stolen from the house. Sign up for our Daily E-mail Newsletter or Like the Chartiers Valley Patch Facebook page Police also accused them of a second burglary nearby in the Birdland neighborhood. Butt waived to court felony charges of burglary, receiving stolen property…
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Scott Township police said a Raven Drive homewas burglarized while the resident was on vacation earlier this month. Read more about that and other crime in the weekly Scott police blotter.
Scott Township police are investigating another burglary in the Birdland neighborhood. Police said a resident returned home from vacation on Jan. 10 to find their home in the 1400 block of Raven Drive was burglarized. It is not know when the burglary happened, police said, because the resident apparently was away from New Year’s Day until Jan. 10. Police did not say what, if anything, was taken from the home. Investigators are not sure if the break-in is related to two burglaries on Meadowlark Drive last week. Grant Goeckeler, 29, of Scott, and Brian Butt, 27, of Bridgeville, were charged in connection with those burglaries. Bridgeville police also arrested them men recently in connection with the theft of a generator worth $300 from a …
40.380108
-80.079913
1400 Raven Dr, Pittsburgh, PA
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Two men were arrested for allegedly burglarizing two homes in the Scott Township neighborhood this week. Find out where in St. Clair Heights the burglaries occurred.
Two men were arrested after Scott Township police said they burglarized two homes in the Birdland neighborhood this week. Police said a resident returned to their home in the 1300 block of Meadowlark Drive shortly after noon on Jan. 8 and found the door open and markings on a rear door. Officers responding to the scene found Grant Goeckeler, 29, of Scott, and Brian Butt, 27, of Bridgeville, in the area with evidence that investigators say linked them to the burglary. "They were in custody minutes after officers arrived on scene," Scott Township police Sgt. Steve Fury said. Police said they later admitted to being involved in a burglary at another home in the same St. Clair Heights neighborhood. All the items were returned to the homeowners…
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-80.07489
1300 Meadowlark Dr, Pittsburgh, PA
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Friday, March 25, 2011
Driver suffered a seizure and lost control, speeding through several yards in Scott.
George Ponchione stepped onto his front porch at 12:45 p.m. Friday and headed for his car, intending to drive from his home in Scott Township’s Birdland neighborhood to Our Lady of Grace Church on Bower Hill Road. Instead, he spent the afternoon with his neighbors on Raven Drive, taking photographs and marveling at the block-long swath of damage left by a sport utility vehicle that went out of control on his street. As Ponchione stared from his porch, an SUV driven by a 32-year-old Ohio woman who suffered a seizure slammed into his parked car, then tore through his and several other yards before veering across the street. On the other side of Raven, he and other witnesses said, it crashed through shrubbery and another yard before hitting a…
40.38063
-80.0738
1228 Raven Dr, Pittsburgh, PA
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412lorie
6:53 am on Saturday, January 26, 2013
Maybe they should lock em up and throw the key away! more ›