A Fayette County woman who told police her friend was robbed at gunpoint was taken to jail -- along with a male acquaintance -- after officers discovered both were wanted on bench warrants.
Shirley Ohler, 33, of Uniontown and Donald R. McCourt, 39, of Normalville are in the Fayette County Prison awaiting hearings on their bench warrants. Uniontown police took the two to jail Wednesday after the officers were called to a Liberty Street apartment for a report of an armed robbery.
Ohler told police three men entered the apartment 7:10 p.m. Wednesday and ordered the occupants to "get down," according to a police report. One of the men reportedly wielded a baseball bat while another shoved another female to the floor and held a handgun to her head.
One of the intruders, according to the report, entered a bedroom and took a lockbox containing one of the women's birth certificates and an Access card.
All three men fled, but the occupants identified one of the assailants as James Delgado, 22, of Brownsville, police said. A bench warrant has been issued for Delgado on charges that include aggravated assault and burglary, but Delgado remained at large as of Thursday afternoon.
Court records show that Ohler was wanted on a bench warrant issued in 2006 after she failed to appear for trial on a charge of theft of leased property. She is accused of failing to make payments for rentals of a 27-inch television, a VCR and a stereo.
McCourt was wanted for failure to appear in 2008 for a hearing to revoke his intermediate punishment in a DUI case. Court records indicated McCourt failed to report to his probation officer and failed to attend alcohol-safe driving school.
