Neighbors' Dispute Ends with Arrest of Teenager

Neighbors' Dispute

Whitehall Borough police officers went to the 5000 block of Carlyn Drive at around 9:14 on Wednesday night for a report of a disturbance happening outside of a home there.

When the officers arrived, they met with an injured man who said that an argument between him and a neighbor resulted in him being pushed and knocked down, Whitehall police Chief Donald R. Dolfi said. The victim had struck his head on something as he was falling to the ground.

Crews from Medical Rescue Team South Authority arrived at the scene to treat the victim, who provided officers with the name of the other man involved in the altercation.

Police searched the immediate area but could not initially find the other man, Dolfi said. But after obtaining a warrant from night court, officers went to a residence on Carlyn and took James Patrick Bruder, 18, of 5050 Carlyn, into custody at around 12:50 a.m. on Thursday.

Bruder was taken to the Allegheny County Jail on a simple assault charge.

TV Believed to Be Stolen by Relative

Whitehall police officers arrived at the 5300 block of Orchard Hill Drive at around 7:32 a.m. on Friday in response to a burglary report there.

The victims told police that someone had entered their home recently and stolen a 27-inch Toshiba flat-screen TV valued at $300, Dolfi said.

However, neither the victims nor police observed signs of forced entry to the Orchard Hill home.

Eventually, Dolfi said, the victims were able to discern that the TV was taken by a relative—Marley Fisher, 24, of 5369 Orchard Hill—who had access to the home.

Fisher is being charged with theft.

Attempted Burglary on Radford Road

Whitehall police officers arrived at the 1500 block of Radford Road in the Wallace (Prospect) Park area at around 9:46 p.m. on Thursday in response to an attempted burglary there.

Officers met with the victim, who said that she last left her apartment at around 3:30 p.m. that day, and when she returned at around 9:30, she noticed that her front door frame and lock were both broken, Dolfi said.

Strangely, nothing was missing from the woman's apartment, leaving police to wonder if the would-be burglar was somehow scared away.

The incident is under investigation.

Ladders Missing from Jewel Drive

A resident from the 4700 block of Jewel Drive notified Whitehall police at around 11:40 a.m. on Sunday that two ladders were recently taken from his property. The resident last noticed them near his backyard shed on Wednesday night, Dolfi said.

The ladders—an 8-foot, green and yellow fiberglass one and a white fiberglass pool one—were left unsecured in the victim's backyard. The victim valued the white ladder at around $150 but could not place a value on the green and yellow one.

Officers spoke to the man's neighbors, some of whom said that they last saw the pool ladder lying across nearby railroad tracks sometime in the past few days.

Police called the railway company but learned of no reports of a sighting of any ladders on or near the tracks.

The incident is under investigation.

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