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Somerset County Jail inmate charged with resisting arrest that involved three COs
SOMERSET — A fight during breakfast hours on June 7 at the county Jail resulted in charges of assault and resisting arrest, both second-degree misdemeanors, against inmate Wayne Sherlock, who was in jail in lieu of bond in another case. A Somerset Borough Police investigation determined Sherlock, 28, of...
AG: 'Career drug dealer' sentenced up to 30 years for Johnstown girl's fatal overdose
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WJAC) — A Cambria County man, who was labeled as a "career drug dealer," will spend up to three decades behind bars for his role in the fatal overdose of a local 5-year-old girl. Investigators with the state attorney general's office say 36-year-old Albert Spicer appeared in...
DA: Over $177K in drugs seized from Johnstown home, two arrested
CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — Two Johnstown residents were busted after task force officers seized $177K in drugs during a search. On July 12, Tauras Smith, 41, and Malik Davis, 35, were taken into custody after police executed a search warrant on the 100 block of Stone Street, according to Cambria County District Attorney Greg […]
Crews fight row house fire in Johnstown, police to investigate cause
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WTAJ) — Crews are currently fighting a fire along Franklin Street in the City of Johnstown. WTAJ has learned that the fire broke out at a row house along the 600 block of Franklin Street shortly after 12:15 p.m. The row house contained three locations and all were affected by the fire. Crews […]
Second fire consumes a vacant mobile home at Cherry Lane Estates
SOMERSET — A second fire has destroyed yet another vacant mobile home at Cherry Lane Estates Saturday. The first fire occurred just shy of eight weeks ago. No one was hurt in either fire. However, one tenant was displaced from his home because the first fire spread to his trailer.
Johnstown man accused of threatening to throw woman off bridge
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WTAJ) — A Johnstown man is accused of threatening to stab and throw a woman off a bridge. Merle Painter, 49, is in prison after police said a woman came to them saying that he threatened her, according to a criminal complaint. On July 16, officers from the Johnstown Police Department were driving […]
Johnstown Man Arrested In Altoona On Witness Intimidation Charges
A Johnstown man is back behind bars this time in Blair County after police say he reportedly sent threatening messages to a woman whom he previously kidnapped and held captive. Robert Stevenson-Watts was arrested in 2020 after authorities say he abducted a woman and held her in the attic of a condemned home in Conemaugh.
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