Morning Roundup: Police make arrest after SWAT response in Pittsburgh's Banksville neighborhood

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Wednesday, Aug. 21:

Police make arrest after SWAT response in Banksville

Pittsburgh police arrested a man after a SWAT team responded late Tuesday night to a domestic assault call in the city’s Banksville neighborhood.

The man had barricaded himself inside a home in the 2900 block of Banksville Road, but the woman was safe, police said.

Traffic was temporarily closed between Carnahan Road and McMonagle Avenue.

Negotiators repeatedly tried to contact the man by phone before he surrendered and they took him into custody at 12:16 a.m. Wednesday.

The man, who police have not yet identified, was cleared by medics and will face multiple charges, public safety officials said.

Police investigating Arlington burglary

Pittsburgh police are investigating after a business owner in the city’s Arlington neighborhood reviewed his security footage and found his store had been burglarized early Tuesday morning.

A man backed his car into the front door of the business, which is located in the 2400 block of Arlington Avenue. He then stole about 100 cartons of cigarettes, which officials said was worth thousands of dollars.

No one was in the store at the time, police said, and no burglar alarm was activated.

Detectives reviewed video of the incident and identified a suspect, who officials have not yet named. Public safety officials said police have applied for an arrest warrant.

Wrong-way driver crashes on Route 28

A wrong-way driver caused a crash on Route 28 on Monday night in Pittsburgh, public safety officials said.

A Pittsburgh motorcycle officer around 11:30 p.m. Monday reported a two-vehicle crash in the southbound lanes of Route 28. One of the vehicles rolled on its side, officials said.

Officers arrived on the scene to direct traffic while firefighters pulled a woman from the rolled-over Jeep. She was taken to the hospital with severe bleeding and possibly broken bones. She was in stable condition.

Witnesses told police the Jeep was hit by a speeding Mercedes going the wrong direction in the southbound lanes.

Police talked to the Mercedes driver, who claimed he was driving the correct direction when the Jeep hit him. He told officers he entered Route 28 at Anderson Street on Pittsburgh’s North Shore, where there are no northbound lanes and multiple signs warning drivers not to go the wrong way.

The driver will be charged via summons, public safety officials said, and is facing multiple traffic-related charges, including driving under a suspended license.