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Tuesday, April 02, 2002

EDGEWOOD: Busway foe moving

A council member who was active in the borough's opposition to the busway extension has resigned. Councilman Ed Schmidt said he will be moving to Washington, D.C.

In a letter to president Regis Griffin, Schmidt urged officials to sign a cooperative agreement with the Port Authority on the 2.3-mile Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway Extension.

Rankin, Swissvale and Wilkinsburg already have signed the pact.

Edgewood has lobbied for light rail transit instead of the bus line. Schmidt said light rail transit would be well-advised but that Edgewood can't ignore the $1 million in benefits that signing the agreement would provide.

MONROEVILLE: 1 arrested in robbery

Monroeville police arrested one man and were searching for two others in the robbery of an elderly woman's apartment on Easter afternoon.

David Repasky, 24, of North Braddock, who was arrested shortly after the 1 p.m. incident, was charged with robbery, burglary and aggravated assault. His bond was set at $25,000 and he was taken to the Allegheny County Jail. His preliminary hearing is next Tuesday before District Justice Walter Luniewski.

Police are looking for two other white males who broke into the woman's apartment above Esta Esta Restaurant on William Penn Highway and terrorized her.

They demanded money from the woman and carried her around the apartment, forcing her to point out where she kept money, said Monroeville police Lt. David Palmero.

When her son came home, the assailants knocked him to the ground before fleeing. Police found Repasky at the Eat'n Park restaurant on Monroeville Boulevard.

"When the son came home, the actors made a run for it," Palmero said.

Palmero said the victims did not know their assailants. He would not release the victims' names.

SOMERSET COUNTY: Embezzler pleads

A man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a charge of embezzling $31,399 from Youghiogheny Lake Park.

William Mark Glass, 46, of Addison, admitted he stole the money from March 1995 through July 1996 while working at the park, which is operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.

U.S. District Judge D. Brooks Smith did not set a sentencing date.