Text messages lead to sex charges against Scottdale man
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A series of text messages discovered by a parent on a teenage girl’s cell phone led to sexual assault charges against a Scottdale man.
Albert C. Fletcher III, 35, was charged by borough police with corruption of minors, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a person less than 16 years old, statutory sexual assault and furnishing alcohol to a minor.
Officer Dennis Elcock said the investigation started when the victim’s mother came to the police station recently and disclosed that she had found a series of inappropriate text messages between her daughter and Fletcher that occurred two years ago, when the victim was 14-years-old.
Elcock reported in court documents he interviewed the victim with her father on Sept. 24 and the victim disclosed that Fletcher and she had met for sex several times beginning in April 2018.
She told police the assaults took place in a shed at Fletcher’s residence on Fifth Avenue, where he would provide her with beer.
East Huntingdon District Judge Charles Moore ordered Fletcher held in the county prison after he failed to post $1,000 bond pending a preliminary hearing Nov. 25.
Fletcher has another preliminary hearing scheduled the same day for corruption of minors for allegedly sexually assaulting another teenage girl in July 2019, according to court dockets. That complaint was also filed by borough police.
Fletcher’s private attorney listed in court documents, Ken Noga of Greensburg, did not immediately return a telephone call for comment.
In 2016, Fletcher was arrested by state troopers in Fayette County on multiple theft and institutional vandalism charges for stealing 400 bronze cemetery vases valued $77,000 from Green Ridge Memorial Park in Bullskin. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve two to four years in prison, according to online dockets.