Law&Order
June 20, 2002 Georges Twp.
Man arrested
Donald Dean Tabacsko of Smithfield was served with an arrest warrant Tuesday and arraigned before District Justice Randy Abraham on charges of rape stemming from a June 10 incident with a juvenile in Haydentown, according to state police.
Police said the charges filed against Tabacsko include statutory sexual assault, two counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, two counts of aggravated indecent assault, two counts of indecent assault, incest and corruption of minors.
After arraignment, Tabacsko was placed in the Fayette County Prison in lieu of $50,000 cash bond.
North Union Twp.
Police investigate
State police said a man and woman, driving in the West Leisenring area and near the Uniontown city limits and claiming to be conducting a survey for the Laurel Highlands School District, have been stopping and asking where they can locate grade-school-aged children.
The suspects are described as a white man in his mid 20s with a medium build and a white woman in her early 20s with short hair.
They were last seen operating a late-model, dark green sport-utility vehicle, possibly a Jeep or Chevrolet Blazer, believed to be carrying Florida plates.
Anyone with information on the suspects is asked to call state police at 724-439-7111.
Police noted that no additional reports on the suspects had been phoned in Wednesday from those areas, but they urged residents to continue to be on the watch for suspicious activity.
South Union Twp.
Stand burglarized
State police said $321 in property was taken from the Fayette County Soccer Organization’s concession stand at a soccer field off Township Drive Wednesday night or Thursday morning.
Dawson
Man escapes injury
State police said Amos Albert Giles of Connellsville was not injured Wednesday when the vehicle he was driving traveled off Howell Street, down over a small embankment and struck a fence owned by H. Wayne Graft at 12:12 a.m.
Franklin Twp.
Utility pole struck
Someone driving a General Motors truck hit a utility pole off a state road in Smock Saturday night and fled the scene, state police said.
Uniontown
Woman cited
City police cited Karen Fenton, 30, of 68 Lemon St. for harassment after an alleged dispute with a juvenile neighbor at 12:25 a.m. Wednesday.
Uniontown
Car window broken
Mark Lawson of Woodlawn Avenue told city police that he discovered a broken window on his car Tuesday afternoon.
Luzerne Twp.
Railroad fire
A stack of old railroad ties caught fire at the Big Meadow Run rail yard, near the Maxwell crossing, early Wednesday, according to Luzerne Township Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jim Harvey. Harvey said the fire department received the call at 5:29 a.m. and extinguished the fire in 15 to 20 minutes.
No one was injured.
According to Harvey, the old railroad ties were stacked there after recently being replaced.
“Someone apparently had nothing better to do than start a fire,” he said.
New Stanton
Truck damaged
State police said something flew off a flatbed tractor-trailer and hit the hood and windshield of a pickup driven by Deborah Weaver, 33, of Grindstone on Wednesday afternoon.
Bullskin Twp.
Bricks taken
Rachel R. Bassinger, 25, of Connellsville told state police that two used red bricks were taken from her Longanecker Road yard at 9:14 a.m. Wednesday.
South Union Twp.
Car struck
State police said someone driving a 1991 Toyota truck hit a parked car owned by Donna Berdar, 54, and fled at 10 a.m. Saturday in the McDonald’s Restaurant parking lot along Route 21.