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East Briefs: 9/27/01
Thursday, September 27, 2001
Correction/Clarification: (Published Sept. 28, 2001) The Penn Hills Planning Commission meeting has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday in the municipal building. We had the day wrong day in a news brief yesterday.
The Penn Hills Planning Commission meeting set for tonight has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday in the municipal building.
Municipal planner Chris Blackwell said the session was canceled because not enough commission members could attend to make a quorum.
A public hearing on a request by Sprint PCS to erect a communications tower off Jefferson Road will be on the agenda next week.
State police have charged a Cambria County man with pocketing at least $32,000 in premiums he accepted this year while running a now-defunct insurance agency in Indiana, Pa.
James Boslet, 51, of Ebensburg, is free on $10,000 bond after being charged Tuesday with theft, forgery and insurance fraud. Police say he kept business and auto insurance premiums paid to the Hennig Insurance Agency between January and June. At least one insurer has agreed to honor policies of customers bearing receipts.
Boslet is slated for a preliminary hearing Tuesday before District Justice Richard Orendorff of Indiana.
Four reservists from the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center in North Versailles have been ordered to active duty.
Naval Capt. Peter Hackett confirmed the reservists were activated, but he would not say who they were and where they were being deployed.
Hackett said the reserve center has 15 different units in the Pittsburgh area.
A Johnstown chimney repairman who robbed banks to finance a drug habit will spend five years and eight months in federal prison and repay $10,221.
Chief U.S. District Judge D. Brooks Smith, sitting at the federal court in Johnstown, imposed the sentence Monday on Roger Choka, 35. In July, Choka pleaded guilty to robbing four banks in Cambria and Somerset counties of $39,221 during a four-month stretch that ended when Choka was caught in March.
Defense lawyer Robert D. Gleason said Choka used the money for drugs.
The robberies ended when a Ligonier Township, Westmoreland County, police officer nabbed Choka March 8, with the robber still carrying $29,000 from a bank robbery a half-hour earlier in Jennerstown, Somerset County.
The Catholic Diocese of Greensburg and St. Vincent Archabbey, College and Seminary will co-sponsor the 34th annual Red Mass at noon Friday.
Attorney C.J. Queenan Jr., senior counsel with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP in Pittsburgh, will be the keynote speaker at the conclusion of the service, to be held in St. Vincent Archabbey Basilica in Latrobe.
The Red Mass is for judges, lawyers, political leaders and officials of all faiths.
For more information, call 724-539-9761.
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