Northern Regional Police accuse woman of assaulting construction flagger with bat
Northern Regional Police accused a woman of using a baseball bat to assault another woman who was working as a flagger at a road construction site in Pine.
Police say that on Jan. 5, a woman who works for Wright Traffic Control Inc. was working as a flagger at the intersection of Wallace and Village Run roads when a woman wearing a black and white Halloween mask and blue jeans hit her in the back and left leg with an aluminum baseball bat before fleeing.
Police charged Rebecca Dawn Metz, 43, of the 400 block of School Road in Verona, with a felony county of aggravated assault along with counts of reckless endangerment and harassment.
Metz was released from from the Allegheny County Jail after posting a $5,000 cash bond, according to court records. She faces a preliminary hearing before District Judge William Wagner on Feb. 15.
Police also arrested two men who were with Metz when the alleged assault occurred, according to investigators.
Alvin Rush Miller, 59, of the 200 block of Coxcomb Hill in Plum and Joseph Girard D’Incau Jr., 51, of Verona each were charged with a count of criminal conspiracy, court records show.
Miller was released from custody on a $25,000 unsecured bond. D’Incau was released on a nonmonetary bond. They also face preliminary hearings before Wagner on Feb. 15.
When police responded to the scene after the woman was struck, she told them that she had reported an incident two weeks prior to Verona police in which she accused Metz of vandalizing her vehicle.
She told police that even though the woman who hit her was wearing a mask she believed it was Metz.
One of the woman’s coworkers told police that he witnessed the assault and chased the woman up a grassy hill near toward a former bank building along Village Club.
He told police that a man wearing the same style Halloween mask was waiting outside a gold Chevy Suburban being driven by another man when they fled the scene, the complaint said.
A short time later, West Deer police reported that they stopped a gold 2001 Suburban along Route 910 with Metz, Miller and D’Incau inside, police said.
Northern Regional Police took the three suspects into custody, but they declined to answer questions from investigators, the complaint said.
Police said they searched the vehicle and found the bat and the masks.
Tony LaRussa is a TribLive reporter. A Pittsburgh native, he covers crime and courts in the Alle-Kiski Valley. He can be reached at tlarussa@triblive.com.
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