30+ Food Trucks Will Be at The Greater Pittsburgh Food Truck Festival This Weekend

The Greater Pittsburgh Food Truck Festival is back!

Source: 30+ Food Trucks Will Be at The Greater Pittsburgh Food Truck Festival This Weekend

Tuna ‘100%’ found in new Subway tuna DNA testing: report – New York Daily News

“Inside Edition” tested the much-discussed tuna used in Subway sandwiches, salads and wraps and found, for the second time in five months, that the fast food chain does in fact use real tuna in its offerings.

This follows a June 19 New York Times report that it had purchased more than 5-feet of Subway tuna sandwiches to be tested at an undisclosed lab in California that failed to find “amplifiable tuna DNA” in the samples it examined, citing a couple possible reasons — either it’s so heavily processed no tuna could be detected or “there’s just nothing there that’s tuna.”

Subway didn’t initially comment on that testing, but has since pushed back arguing that by the time tuna reaches Subway customers, it’s been so heavily processed and “denatured” that its DNA wouldn’t be recognizable.

This follows a New York Times report that didn’t detect DNA, which Subway said is to be expected when fish is ‘denatured’

Source: Tuna ‘100%’ found in new Subway tuna DNA testing: report – New York Daily News

Utah company halts sales of Lego handgun case kits after cease and desist | US gun control | The Guardian

Utah company has stopped selling a kit that encases Glock handguns in Lego blocks, amid uproar and after the Danish toymaker demanded it cease and desist.

Marketing the “Block19” as a “a childhood dream come to life”, Culper Precision introduced it on Instagram, saying: “We wanted the second amendment to simply be too painful to tread on, so there was only one logical solution.”

Red, yellow and blue blocks made the original weapon barely visible, disguising it as a child’s toy.

Source: Utah company halts sales of Lego handgun case kits after cease and desist | US gun control | The Guardian

Ted Cruz blames rising COVID-19 cases in South Texas on undocumented immigrants

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is facing backlash after he said that undocumented immigrants are to blame for rising COVID-19 cases in South Texas.

Cruz, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined fellow Republicans on Wednesday to call on the Biden administration to address the record surge of illegal crossings along the Texas-Mexico border that began in the spring.

Cruz called the rise in crossings a humanitarian, national security and public health crisis and urged the Biden administration to preserve Title 42, a rule put in place by former President Donald Trump that refuses asylum-seekers entry on the basis of public health.

Source: Ted Cruz blames rising COVID-19 cases in South Texas on undocumented immigrants

BLM is a Ponzi scheme shaking down corporations: Sen. Marco Rubio | Fox News

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., told “America Reports” Thursday that the Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization has “shaken down multiple U.S. corporations to the tune of millions of dollars.” Rubio made these comments after BLM put out a statement saying they “condemn the U.S. federal government’s inhumane treatment of Cubans.”

BLACK LIVES MATTER BLAMES US, PRAISES CUBAN REGIME, SOCIAL MEDIA ERUPTS

SEN. MARCO RUBIO: The only reason why I even addressed the Black Lives Matter – that’s an organization that put that out there — the only reason I even addressed it is because they have shaken down multiple U.S. corporations to the tune of millions and millions of dollars…They use for their leader, by the way, a trained Marxist, as she called herself, to go out and spend a bunch of money in a spa resort…[she] actually bought herself a multimillion-dollar home. 

They are charlatans. They are a Ponzi scheme. They are a fraud. So that’s the only reason I care about them is because they’ve shaken down and continue to shake down corporations.

Source: BLM is a Ponzi scheme shaking down corporations: Sen. Marco Rubio | Fox News

132-Night World Cruise Sells Out In Less Than 3 Hours : NPR

The cruise will take passengers on a trip lasting 132 nights. Prices range up to $199,999. The strong interest may be a positive sign for the cruise industry as it tries to rebound from the pandemic.

Regent Seven Seas Cruises released the fares for sale at 8:30 a.m. ET Thursday. By 11 a.m., all the spots had been snapped up by people eager to spend more than four months on a cruise ship. The strong interest may be a positive sign for the cruise industry as it tries to rebound from the pandemic.

The voyage, which will span 34,500 nautical miles, includes 66 ports of call, as the Seven Seas Mariner will visit 31 countries and four continents. Passengers will also see 61 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Source: 132-Night World Cruise Sells Out In Less Than 3 Hours : NPR

All 18 passengers survive Russian plane’s hard landing in Siberia

A Russian Antonov An-28 passenger plane carrying 18 people made a hard landing after disappearing from radars Friday while flying over the Siberian region of Tomsk, according to reports.

The twin-engine Antonov An-28 turboprop was flying from the town of Kedrovy to the regional capital of Tomsk when communication with it was lost, said local Gov. Sergei Zhvachkin’s office, according to Agence France-Presse.
Fears had swirled over the fate of the plane, its passengers and three crew members when it disappeared from radar.

Rescuers who rushed to the area where contact was lost eventually located the survivors in a wooded section near the badly damaged plane, which was found upside down, Reuters reported.

Source: All 18 passengers survive Russian plane’s hard landing in Siberia

Texas SWAT commander killed, 3 other officers wounded in standoff; suspect arrested | Fox News

One Texas law enforcement officer was killed and three others were wounded Thursday in what became an hours-long standoff with a barricaded suspect in Levelland, about 30 miles west of Lubbock, authorities said.

The suspect, identified as Omar Soto-Chavira, 22, was eventually taken into custody late Thursday night and was to be hospitalized for unspecified injuries, according to KCBD-TV in Lubbock.

Source: Texas SWAT commander killed, 3 other officers wounded in standoff; suspect arrested | Fox News

Pittsburgh mother, man face charges after 6-week-old baby tests positive for cocaine

PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh mother and a man are facing charges after doctors found cocaine in the system of a 6-week-old baby.

Lindsey Satterfield, 38, took her baby to a doctor’s appointment because he kept vomiting. The doctor determined he was a pound underweight from his last appointment.

Police searched the home of Satterfield and Matthew Bell, 43, along Woodbourne Avenue in Brookline.

Inside the home, police found loose pills, stamp bags of heroin, syringes, used crack pipes and scales, according to court documents.

During an interview with police, Bell said that while he and Satterfield used crack cocaine last week, the baby was sitting in his baby swing in the living room.

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He said both he and Satterfield touched the baby after touching the crack cocaine and the crack pipe, according to the criminal complaint.

Bell further said he assumed that is how the baby tested positive for cocaine. Both Satterfield and Bell were taken to the Allegheny County Jail. Both are facing several charges, including endangering the welfare of children and aggravated assault.

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The baby was rushed to the hospital, where he underwent tests to determine the cause. It was during a regular urinalysis that cocaine was discovered in his system. The baby was admitted to the hospital.

Source: Pittsburgh mother, man face charges after 6-week-old baby tests positive for cocaine

Top US general warned of ‘Reichstag moment’ in Trump’s turbulent last days | Donald Trump | The Guardian

 in Washington

Shortly before the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen Mark Milley, told aides the US was facing a “Reichstag moment” because Donald Trump was preaching “the gospel of the Führer”, according to an eagerly awaited book about Trump’s last year in office.

The excerpts from I Alone Can Fix This, by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, were reported by New York magazine on Wednesday. The authors’ employer, the Washington Post, published the first extract from the book a day earlier. It will be published next week.

Trump denies having made the remark.

Leonnig and Rucker report that Milley spoke to an “old friend”, who warned the general that Trump and his allies were trying to “overturn the government” in response to Joe Biden’s election victory, which Trump falsely maintains was the result of electoral fraud.

Milley is reported to have said: “They may try, but they’re not going to fucking succeed. You can’t do this without the military. You can’t do this without the CIA and the FBI. We’re the guys with guns.”

Reportedly calling Trump supporters “Brownshirts”, a reference to paramilitaries who served Hitler in Germany in the 1930s, Milley is reported to have believed long before the Capitol attack that “Trump was stoking unrest, possibly in hopes of an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and call out the military”.

Milley notoriously appeared with Trump in Lafayette Square in Washington in June 2020, after anti-racism protesters had been aggressively cleared and as Trump walked to a church to stage a photo op with a Bible.

The general apologised for that incident. It has been widely reported that he resisted Trump’s efforts then to invoke the Insurrection Act and crack down on the protests.

Milley’s “Reichstag moment” remark refers to a fire at the German parliament which the Nazis used to consolidate their authoritarian rule in 1933.

Trump’s supporters attacked Congress on 6 January, the day the electoral college results were certified . Five people died.

Leonnig and Rucker report that Milley called the attackers “Nazis” and, in reference to two far-right groups, said “they’re boogaloo boys, they’re Proud Boys”.

“These are the same people we fought in [the second world war],” he reportedly said.

According to New York magazine, the authors also report that Milley, who made headlines and stoked rightwing ire last month by defending teaching about historic racism in army educational establishments, met former first lady Michelle Obama at the Capitol on 20 January, the day Biden was inaugurated.

“No one has a bigger smile today than I do,” Milley reportedly said. “You can’t see it under my mask but I do.”

Source: Top US general warned of ‘Reichstag moment’ in Trump’s turbulent last days | Donald Trump | The Guardian

To Truly Fight Communism, We Must End the Embargo on Cuba | Opinion

Increasing economic and cultural exchange with the United States is the clearest path to reform, and is something Washington can clearly make a reality.

Protests have erupted against the communist regime in Cuba. As a result, there have been calls from the politically influential Cuban-American community to stand with the demonstrators. On Wednesday, pop star Pitbull released a video in which he expressed frustration about not being able to help his people achieve freedom and called for global business to step up. Pitbull was joined by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who wrote a letter to President Biden asking him to enlist American business in providing internet access to Cuba.

American corporations have often been a vehicle for social and political change, both at home and abroad. Unfortunately, policy towards Cuba has worked to reduce U.S. economic and cultural influence since the Eisenhower administration.

Source: To Truly Fight Communism, We Must End the Embargo on Cuba | Opinion

Child tax credit starts hitting US families’ bank accounts

WASHINGTON (AP) — The child tax credit had always been an empty gesture to millions of parents like Tamika Daniel.

That changed Thursday when the first payment of $1,000 hit Daniel’s bank account — and dollars started flowing to the pockets of more than 35 million families around the country. Daniel, a 35-year-old mother of four, didn’t even know the tax credit existed until President Joe Biden expanded it for one year as part of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package that passed in March.

Previously, only people who earned enough money to owe income taxes could qualify for the credit. Daniel went nearly a decade without a job because her eldest son is autistic and needed her. So she got by on Social Security payments. And she had to live at Fairfield Courts, a public housing project that dead-ends at Interstate 64 as the highway cuts through the Virginia capital of Richmond.

But the extra $1,000 a month for the next year could be a life-changer for Daniel, who now works as a community organizer for a Richmond nonprofit. It will help provide a security deposit on a new apartment.

“It’s actually coming right on time,” she said. “We have a lot going on. This definitely helps to take a load off.”

Biden has held out the new monthly payments, which will average $423 per family, as the key to halving child poverty rates. But he is also setting up a broader philosophical battle about the role of government and the responsibilities of parents.

Democrats see this as a landmark program along the same lines as Social Security, saying it will lead to better outcomes in adulthood that will help economic growth. But many Republicans warn that the payments will discourage parents from working and ultimately feed into long-term poverty.

Some 15 million households will now receive the full credit. The monthly payments amount to $300 for each child who is 5 and younger and $250 for those between 5 and 17. The payments are set to lapse after a year, but Biden is pushing to extend them through at least 2025.

The president ultimately would like to make the payments permanent — and that makes this first round of payments a test as to whether the government can improve the lives of families.

Biden invited beneficiaries to the White House to mark the first round of payments, saying in a Thursday speech that the day carried a historic resonance because of the boost it will give families across the nation.

“This would be the largest ever one-year decrease in child poverty in the history of the United States of America,” the president said. “Millions of children and their families, starting today, their lives are about to change for the better. And our country would be better off for it as well.”

Source: Child tax credit starts hitting US families’ bank accounts

Police: Man pulled gun on cop during traffic stop in Cambria Co

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — A Cambria County man is in custody after allegedly pulling a gun on a Patton Borough police officer, Tuesday, July 13.

Austin Yanella, 24, of Hastings was pulled over on Magee Avenue after making a left turn through a red light. After being pulled over, Yanella exited the vehicle and refused to get back in even though he was ordered to do so. Yanella then began yelling and walking away from the scene until the officer pulled out a taser and pointed it at him, according to the criminal complaint.

Then, Yanella pointed a .22 caliber handgun at the officer. The officer fired the taser which dropped Yanella to the ground, according to the criminal complaint.

Yanella was arrested and placed into Cambria County prison on felony count charges of aggravated assault, possession of a prohibited firearm and firearms not be carried without a license. And, misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct and recklessly endangering another person.

Source: Police: Man pulled gun on cop during traffic stop in Cambria Co

Police Provide More Info On Fatal Motorcycle Crash – ButlerRadio.com – Butler, PA

Police are providing more information on a fatal crash that happened late last month.

The motorcycle crash happened on Chicora Road around 9:15 p.m. on June 29th. Police say 70-year-old Thomas Curry of Rimersburg was driving north near Holly Road when a deer ran out in front of him.

He collided with the deer and his bike then overturned in the opposite lane.

Curry fell off his bike and was flown to UPMC Presbyterian where he later died from his injuries.

Source: Police Provide More Info On Fatal Motorcycle Crash – ButlerRadio.com – Butler, PA

Latrobe police issue warning on scam calls

 

It’s embarrassing. We never think it could happen to us. But the truth is, it does happen and has been happening a lot more frequently lately. They are scam calls and they bilk thousands and thousands of hard-earned dollars from people.

An uptick in scam calls in the area, has prompted Latrobe police to issue a warning to residents to never provide their personal information over the phone under any circumstances.

Source: Latrobe police issue warning on scam calls

House GOP demands answers about Biden family ‘cash-grab’

A dozen Republican members of Congress demanded Wednesday that the White House turn over information related to the business interests of President Biden’s family in order to “understand the extent of the Biden family’s use of its connection to the President to enrich itself.”

The letter to White House Counsel Dana Remus from the members of the House Oversight Committee seeks information on trips then-Vice President Biden took with son Hunter to China in 2013 and Mexico in 2016. It also asks for a list of “all past and ongoing foreign business interests and past and ongoing foreign relations for members of the Biden family,” as well as all “documents and communications regarding Hunter Biden’s artwork.

Source: House GOP demands answers about Biden family ‘cash-grab’

Pittsburgh St. Patrick’s Day Rescheduled For Sept. 18 – CBS Pittsburgh

By: KDKA-TV News Staff

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The luck of the Irish will be celebrated in September.

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The Pittsburgh St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be on Sept. 18. It was postponed due to COVID-19.

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Source: Pittsburgh St. Patrick’s Day Rescheduled For Sept. 18 – CBS Pittsburgh

China vessels dumping human waste in parts of West Philippine Sea, photos show | GMA News Online

Human waste and sewage from hundreds of Chinese ships anchored in the South China Sea and parts of the West Philippine Sea are causing massive marine damage to the resource-rich waters, a US-based expert said Monday.

Liz Derr, founder and CEO of Simularity, which specializes in geospatial analysis and provides satellite data imagery, revealed that Chinese ships have been dumping raw sewage every day for several years on reefs, creating harmful Chlorophyll-a blooms in the waters.

“It is so intense you can see it from space,” Derr told an online forum hosted by the Stratbase ADR Institute on the 5th anniversary of the Philippines’ landmark arbitral tribunal victory against China.

Showing satellite images in the last five years, Derr said effluent from Chinese ships are causing elevated concentrations of Chlorophyll-a leading to “a cascade of reef damage that will take decades to recover even with active mitigation.”

Source: China vessels dumping human waste in parts of West Philippine Sea, photos show | GMA News Online

Mayorkas accused of denying Cubans, Haitians US entry because they’d ‘vote against the commie bulls—‘ | Fox News

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas faced heavy blowback for declaring Tuesday that those fleeing violence in Cuba or Haiti by sea would not be allowed into the U.S. — and would either be returned or referred to a third country.

“The time is never right to attempt migration by sea,” Mayorkas said at a news conference on Tuesday. “Allow me to be clear: If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.”

Social media critics erupted Wednesday, leveling strong accusations against the Biden administration for closing the doors to Cubans and Haitians fleeing violent political uprisings in their country while maintaining exceptionally lax immigration restrictions at the US-Mexico border.

“Biden’s DHS Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas PROVES his goal is to open the borders to illegal immigrants who are likely to vote Democrat, while slamming the door on anti-communist Cuban refugees who are likely to be future Republicans,” Dinesh D’souza wrote Wednesday.

“DHS Secretary Mayorkas does not want legitimate asylum-seekers fleeing Cuba to come to the US despite his family having done just that,”  Donald Trump Jr. wrote Wednesday. “Apparently he only wants people pretending to need asylum because those people will still vote for socialist Democrats!”

“DHS secretary Mayorkas (Cuban immigrant who fled with his family in 1960) says no refuge for Cubans fleeing the country,” a conservative pundit who goes by the handle Suburban Black Man wrote. “I wonder why… Could it be because they are likely to naturalize, seek citizenship, and vote AGAINST all of the commie bulls— the Democrats are pushing?”

Texas Republican Rep. Lance Gooden wondered why Mayorkas doesn’t say “this to illegals crossing our southern border?”

Source: Mayorkas accused of denying Cubans, Haitians US entry because they’d ‘vote against the commie bulls—‘ | Fox News

Pittsburgh is a ‘craft beer destination’ says American Craft Beer

 

A national website names Pittsburgh a craft beer destination.

Pittsburgh’s craft beer scene is booming and it’s not just locals who are taking notice.

Thirsty folks from American Craft Beer, a website dedicated to national brew news, recently paid a visit to our fair city to soak up the hoppy culture and its liquid assets. Not, surprisingly, they were impressed.

The Washington, D.C.-based bloggers had this to say:

“Pittsburgh turned out to be more interesting, more vibrant and more fun than we ever expected, and its beer scene, which is pretty amazing, was only part of the ride. Any great beer destination starts with a combination of things, the city, its people, character and vibe … and, of course, its beer. And as it turns out, Pittsburgh has all of those things in spades.”

Source: Pittsburgh is a ‘craft beer destination’ says American Craft Beer

Social Security recipients may get biggest cost-of-living bump in almost 40 years

Annual benefit hike could top 6% due to fast-rising inflation. But retirees would have to wait until 2022 to see it.

The 69 million Americans who collect Social Security are on track to get the biggest cost-of-living hike since 1983, with one advocacy group for senior citizens projecting a 6.1% increase to benefits due to surging inflation.

The bad news: Recipients will have to wait for that bump because the Social Security Administration adjusts its payments only once a year, starting with December benefits that are paid in January. That means seniors and other Social Security beneficiaries wouldn’t receive a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) until January 2022.

In the meantime, prices for everything from gas to groceries are rising at a time when Social Security recipients got what was among the meagerest of COLA adjustments in recent years — a 1.3% increase for 2021. As the pandemic eases, a rapid reopening of the economy is fueling pent-up spending for goods and services that in many cases remain in short supply, prompting inflation to jump 5.4% in June compared with a year earlier.

Source: Social Security recipients may get biggest cost-of-living bump in almost 40 years

Police: Pittsburgh mother charged after children left home alone, CYF worker threatened

Laura Barney, 32, charged with endangering the welfare of children and other offenses

Investigators said a caseworker from Allegheny County Children Youth and Families called them about children left home alone and, upon responding to the home on Marlow Street, the CYF worker said she saw four of the five children known that live in the house.

As the investigation continued, the CYF worker asked about the fifth child, a 12-year-old boy, and, according to the criminal complaint, was told he was in the basement.

A police officer checked the basement, finding conditions that were “objectively deplorable,” according to the criminal complaint, including puddles, basement rooms smelling of filth and gnats.

The 12-year-old boy was not found.

Police said the CYF caseworker made contact with Barney a short time later and, upon telling her that CYF would take steps including taking custody of the children, Barney allegedly stated, “Do what you gotta do” and allegedly threatened to cut the caseworker when she arrived at the home.

Upon her arrival, Barney was taken into custody.

Police said Barney said she had gone to a nail salon and claimed the 12-year-old was supposed to be watching the other children.

Barney faces a preliminary hearing on July 28.

Source: Police: Pittsburgh mother charged after children left home alone, CYF worker threatened

Almost an Entire Texas Family Arrested in Capitol Riot – The New York Times

Almost the entire Munn family — the father, the mother and three of their children — are accused of illegally breaching the Capitol through a broken window.

Among the more than 500 people arrested so far in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, there have been several married couples and any number of parent-and-children teams. There have even been sets of siblings charged.

On Tuesday, however, in what seemed to be the first move of its kind, the Justice Department unsealed a complaint against almost the entire Munn family of Texas, accusing the father, the mother and three of their children of illegally breaching the Capitol through a broken window.

Source: Almost an Entire Texas Family Arrested in Capitol Riot – The New York Times

Windows 11 is full of delightful detail – The Verge

It’s all part of Microsoft’s effort to modernize Windows.

Microsoft has started detailing some of the design approaches it has used for Windows 11 and its attention to detail for daily micro-interactions. That includes things like a checkbox that has an animated tick to subtly let you know when you interact with it, or a settings cog that spins when you hover over it. Plenty of buttons in Windows 11 pop with faint signs of life or bounce as you move around the OS.

Source: Windows 11 is full of delightful detail – The Verge

Russian gang blamed for global ransomware attack vanishes from web – POLITICO

The ransomware hacker gang REvil’s websites are offline, about a week and a half after the group’s cyberattack on IT software vendor Kaseya allowed the criminals to breach hundreds of companies around the world.

As of Tuesday morning, the group’s public websitethe dark-web portal that facilitated its ransom negotiations with victims and the site that victims used to pay those ransoms were offline.

In addition to REvil’s websites, “all of their infrastructure” used to control their hacking operations is also dark, said Allan Liska, an intelligence analyst who tracks ransomware for the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

REvil’s public spokesperson, who goes by the pseudonym “Unknown,” “hasn’t been active on message boards since last Thursday,” Liska said.

Source: Russian gang blamed for global ransomware attack vanishes from web – POLITICO

Texas House Republicans approve a measure to arrest members who are absent

President Biden is set to give a major speech on voting rights today. Meanwhile, in Texas, House Democrats are planning to leave the state to prevent further action on election overhaul bills. Follow here for the latest news.

  • President Biden urged Congress to pass federal voting rights legislation, calling the issue “a test of our time” in a major speech in Pennsylvania.
  • His speech comes as some GOP-controlled legislatures have moved ahead with new state laws restricting ballot access and after Senate Republicans blocked a sweeping voting and election bill last month.
  • Meanwhile in Texas, House Democrats left the state and traveled to DC Monday in an effort to halt Republicans from passing a restrictive new voting law.

Source: (18) Texas House Republicans approve a measure to arrest members who are absent

Hopkins doctor breaks down latest reaction risk in J&J COVID-19 vaccine

Officials are looking at only 100 cases out of 12 million Johnson & Johnson shots.

There is a new warning about a potential side effect of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The FDA said it could cause a slight increased risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Doctors said this syndrome, a rare neurological condition, is a known side effect of some vaccines and infections. Now it’s the second side effect warning placed on the J&J shot.

Source: Hopkins doctor breaks down latest reaction risk in J&J COVID-19 vaccine

Pittsburgh man admits to federal charges in string of armed robberies

A Pittsburgh man pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges related to a string of armed robberies that police and the FBI said he carried out with three accomplices across the city and the eastern suburbs in 2018 and 2019.

True Kinnon, 22, pleaded to conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery and brandishing a gun during a violent crime.

Kinnon admitted that he and his cohorts committed seven armed robberies in Allegheny County from November 2018 through February 2019. The group hit convenience stores in Pittsburgh, Penn Hills, Turtle Creek, Oakmont and Monroeville. During some of the heists, Kinnon and the others brandished guns, including an assault-style rifle and a revolver, and threatened employees and customers with the weapons while stealing money and property.

Kinnon and the others were all indicted federally under the Hobbs Act, which prohibits robbery or extortion affecting interstate commerce.

Prosecutors said Kinnon and Jaron Davis, of Penn Hills, robbed a customer at the Home Goods store on Mall Boulevard in Monroeville while attempting to rob the store on Dec. 17, 2018. The next day, Kinnon and Davis robbed a CoGo’s on East Carson Street. On Jan. 30, 2019, Kinnon robbed a CoGo’s on Brownsville Road, prosecutors said, along with Rudolph McBride, of Penn Hills, and Wayne Edwards, of Monroeville.

Kinnon will be sentenced in November.

Source: Pittsburgh man admits to federal charges in string of armed robberies

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