Uniontown man to have day in court
A Uniontown man accused of robbing a dollar store in South Union Township while brandishing a handgun in late September will have his day in court. State police Trooper Robert Reitler said Kevin D. Price Jr., 26, was charged last week before Magisterial District Judge Randy S. Abraham with robbery, criminal conspiracy to commit robbery, theft, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.
Reitler said the charges were filed against Price after he broke into the Dollar Tree store off Matthew Drive at 9:10 p.m. Sept. 29.
Following a preliminary hearing Wednesday, Magisterial District Judge Joseph M. George Jr. bound all charges against Price to Fayette County Court.
Reitler said that during the incident, Price, who was wearing a mask, approached two women employed at the store as they were leaving the business and ordered them to give him money.
He was brandishing a small, silver handgun, Reitler said.
Reitler said the suspect forced the employees back inside the store, where they gave him a plastic bag filled with money.
After grabbing the bag, Reitler said Price then fled on foot past the Target store and across New Salem Road.
Neither woman was injured during the robbery.
Through his investigation, Reitler learned that Price had conspired with one of the women to commit the heist.
The woman’s identity is being withheld pending the formalization of charges against her.
Reitler said in an interview with police Thursday, the woman admitted to investigators that she helped Price organize the heist, allowed him to use her car to flee the scene and took $100 in payoff money from him following the robbery.
Price remains in the Fayette County Prison on $50,000 straight cash bond.