Third suspect sought in weekend crime spree
A man and woman are behind bars after blazing a trail of crime in Western Pennsylvania, leaving in their wake a string of shootings, break-ins and stolen vehicles, authorities said.
Among the scores of victims in the violent weekend crime spree were two men — one of them 84 years old — robbed, badly beaten and left hospitalized with serious injuries.
The suspects — 25-year-old Tyler M. Amos of Cochranton, Crawford County, and 38-year-old Brandy Mae Rombold of Ellwood City — were eventually arrested in Ohio without a fight.
The cross-state capture was aided in part by the GPS tracking device that was on board their final getaway vehicle — an SUV stolen from a Cranberry Township home, according to investigators.
“We're glad it ended like it did, with no further injuries,” Harrison County (Ohio) Sheriff Joe Myers said Sunday, just an hour after his deputies helped nab Amos.
About 20 hours earlier, deputies had arrested Rombold.The defendants face a long list of felonies including attempted homicide, robbery, kidnapping, aggravated assault and burglary. They were returned to Pennsylvania on Sunday and are in the Lawrence County Jail on $250,000 bail each.But authorities acknowledged they are still investigating if the pair committed other crimes during the spree.“We believe there are possibly more burglaries that haven't been reported yet,” state police Cpl. Tim Morando said this morning.Police also have obtained an arrest warrant for a third suspect, Donald G. McClain III, 45, of Ellwood City; however, information about his involvement with the others was not immediately available.
