Crime & Safety

Local Connection: Two Arrested for Overnight Burglary in Brookline

The same man arrested for burglarizing the Baldwin Boro police chief a year ago tries again on the same street.

If at first you don't succeed ... Try the exact same thing again?

Two men were arrested early Tuesday morning after they broke into a house in the 1400 block of Woodbourne Avenue in Pittsburgh's Brookline neighborhood.

Pittsburgh police officers were dispatched to the Woodbourne house just before 2 a.m. for a report of a burglary in progress.

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One of the men arrested—George Joseph Assenat, 33, of Pittsburgh's Carrick neighborhood—is the same person who was arrested in June 2011, route: {:controller=>"articles", :action=>"show", :id=>"baldwin-borough-police-chief-burglarized-in-brookline"} --> for breaking into a house owned by


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