JOHNSTOWN — Johnstown police have filed charges against a woman accused of helping a 17-year-old boy evade authorities.

Tiesha Shaquie Agurs, 21, of the 700 block of Highland Avenue, was charged with hindering apprehension, obstructing administration of law and filing false reports.

City police said they were looking for Jamie Blough, 17, of Adams Township, who was wanted as a suspect in car thefts and had arrived at a home in the 700 block of Highland Avenue on Aug. 25.

Agurs allegedly told police Blough was not there. Officers searched the home and found Blough hiding in the attic.

Blough is being held in the Cambria County Juvenile Detention Center near Ebensburg.

Authorities said Blough and Derek Long, 17, of Meyersdale, walked away from a Cambria County Emergency Shelter for Youth on Aug. 20.

The two allegedly went on crime spree in which they stole more than a dozen vehicles in Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia.

State police in Somerset caught Long on a biking trail in Meyersdale on Thursday. He is being held in the Central County Youth Detention Center in Centre County.

In other news from police around the region:

Man accused of

assaulting women

SOMERSET – Somerset Borough police arrested Brian Dunton, 43, of Somerset and charged him with aggravated assault after an incident in the 300 block of rear West Garrett Street Monday night.

Police said Dunton had placed a cloth rag in the gasoline tank of a 2002 Harley-Davidson motorcycle owned by Levada Ackerman of Somerset and was trying to light the cloth when the owner attempted to stop him.

Dunton is accused of putting a knife to Ackerman’s throat and stating he was going to kill her. When Eugenia Trent of Somerset intervened, she was struck in the face by Dunton, police said.

Dunton was arraigned by District Judge Art Cook and placed in the Somerset County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bond, police said.

Turnpike wreck

involved three trucks

SOMERSET – Three tractor trailer rigs were involved in an accident shortly before 5 a.m. Tuesday on the turnpike in Jefferson Township.

One of the drivers, identified by state police as Michael J. McLeod, 54, of Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, was taken to Somerset Community Hospital for evaluation and treatment of injuries.

A hospital supervisor said Tuesday night she was not permitted to provide information about accident victims.

The other drivers were identified by police as Mark D. Black, 52, of Etters, York County, and John D. Rissler Jr., 41, of Hummelstown, Dauphin County.

Police said the rig driven by Black was eastbound when it went out of control and struck the median barrier, blocking the eastbound left lane and the westbound travel lanes.

The McLeod rig was westbound in the left lane and struck the Black rig, becoming disabled from the impact.

The Rissler rig, which was traveling east behind the Black rig, was struck by debris from the crash, police said.

Money stolen

in home burglary

SOMERSET – State police are continuing investigation of a burglary that took place between 2 and 8 p.m. Sunday at a residence on Penn Avenue in Lincoln Township.

Various denominations of money were taken after a door was forced open.

The door sustained about $200 in damage, police said.

Arrest pending

in animal incident

ARMAGH – State police said Tuesday that they know who took a dog belonging to a woman in Buffington Township, Indiana County, and expect to file charges shortly.

Troopers said the dog was taken just before 11 p.m.

Thursday from a yard in the 100 block of Albert Drive.

The suspect took the dog to

a remote location, then released it without any food or shelter.

The dog was returned the next day, police said.

Heroin bust labeled

Fayette’s largest

CONNELLSVILLE – A West Virginia man has been jailed after a Fayette County drug task force seized the most heroin in county history during an undercover bust.

Fayette District Attorney Jack Heneks said 24-year-old Gary Rose II, of Morgantown, W.Va., was arrested Monday afternoon.

A police informant met Rose in a car in Connellsville and signaled to authorities when Rose produced the drugs.

A pound of heroin that was seized was worth about $450,000, Heneks said.

That equals more than 22,000 individual doses, known as stamp bags, which sell for about $20 each on the street.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for Rose, who

is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Thursday on charges including possession with intent to deliver heroin.

Bogus kidnap report

lands woman in jail

UNIONTOWN – A Fayette County woman has been jailed after state police discovered she had arrest warrants for traffic citations. They said the discovery was made after she falsely claimed to have been kidnapped.

Twenty-two-year-old Amber Marie Rayoni, of Uniontown, reported the kidnapping at a campground in South Union Township on Monday afternoon.

After police arrived, they said Rayoni confessed she hadn’t been kidnapped as she walked along a road, but rather had been left there after arguing with her boyfriend.

Police then discovered that Rayoni was wanted for several outstanding traffic warrants and she was jailed. Police said she’s also going to be charged with filing a false report about the kidnapping.

Mom intoxicated, police allege

GREENSBURG – Police have charged a Westmoreland County woman with endangering her 3-week-old child by taking her to a party where the mother became “severely intoxicated,” then got into a fight before walking to a friend’s house while carrying the baby.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for 29-year-old Tabitha Diehl, of Southwest Greensburg, and nobody answered her home phone on Tuesday.

Diehl faces a preliminary hearing Sept. 30 on charges of endangering the welfare of a child, public drunkenness and disorderly conduct in the incident, which happened about

3 a.m. Aug. 23.

Police said Diehl fought with another woman at the party after Diehl showed a tattoo on her stomach to a former boyfriend.

Diehl ran away, then walked more than a half mile to a friend’s home while carrying the baby.