Pennsylvania
Off-duty Pennsylvania State Police trooper arrested on burglary and aggravated assault charges
UNIONTOWN, Pa. (KDKA) — An off-duty Pennsylvania State Police trooper was arrested and charged with burglary and aggravated assault.
Trooper James Stevenson was arrested in Fayette County this weekend. He is a trooper at the Uniontown Barracks and was off duty when the alleged incident happened.
According to the criminal complaint, Stevenson went to a home on Oak Street in Connellsville just before 1 a.m. on Sunday. He found, according to police, a woman getting ready to have sex with another man. Investigators said that the woman is Stevenson’s girlfriend, but she tells KDKA that the two were broken up at the time the incident took place.
The complaint said Stevenson jumped on top of the man and started hitting him. The woman, according to the complaint, was able to get out of the way.
She allegedly told police that Stevenson was “beating” the man’s face. He then grabbed the woman by the shoulders and told he to get dressed, according to the complaint. She got into her car and left. She was not hurt.
According to the criminal complaint, the victim’s father found his son in bed unconscious.
Outside the home, police said the victim’s father confronted Stevenson, reaching through his driver-side window to grab him. Stevenson then allegedly opened the door, knocking the man to the ground and breaking his glasses.
The victim was treated at a local hospital for cuts and bruises to his face and a broken nose, the criminal complaint said. He declined an interview with KDKA-TV on Monday.
State police in Waynesburg filed charges. A source told KDKA-TV that Stevenson was arraigned and is out on bond and unpaid leave from work. The Fayette County district attorney had no comment on this case. KDKA-TV reached out to state police but no comment yet.
KDKA-TV also learned that Stevenson filed a discrimination lawsuit against state police and several supervisors at the Chambersburg Barracks in 2022. That lawsuit is still active.
The war with Iran could start impacting your wallet as soon as today.
Jim Garrity from AAA East Central says oil prices are up.
“They’re hovering around $72. They were pretty consistently around $65, $66 for a while,” he said.
Nationally, AAA said the average for a gallon of regular sits at about $3, up approximately six cents from last week.
In Pennsylvania, it’s around $3.12 a gallon, and in the Pittsburgh region, it’s around $3.24 a gallon. That’s actually down about four cents from last week.
Garrity added that gas prices this time of year would already be increasing, usually because of higher demand for the warmer months and the production of the summer blend of gas used for those months.
The impacts of what’s happening in Iran may not be immediate, which could be part of why our region and the state overall have not seen a spike yet, he said.
“It could be a couple of days later. It could be up to a week later,” Garrity said.
A lot of people are watching what happens with the Strait of Hormuz. Iran borders it to the north, and 20% of the world’s oil goes through it.
Iran is one of the world’s biggest oil producers, and China gets a lot of that oil.
“If there is an impact there, you could see oil start to come in from other parts of the world, which has a downstream effect on [the United States],” Garrity said.
One way you can save on gas if prices increase in our area is by slowing down.
“When you drive faster every five miles, over 50 miles an hour, your fuel efficiency is going down,” Garrity said. “You’re making the car work harder, making the gasoline consumption less effective.”
Garrity added that in 2022, when our area and many others saw some of the highest gas prices ever recorded, people changed their driving habits.
“We saw people make seemingly permanent changes to their driving behaviors, driving less in general, consolidating trips,” he said.
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