EBENSBURG — A Johnstown man scheduled to go on trial next week in a fatal shooting got a continuance Thursday in an unrelated case in which he is accused of fleeing the scene of an accident.
Judge Gerard Long said the accident case would be postponed until after the murder trial of Antonio Winkleman. It opens Thursday with jury selection.
Winkleman, 26, formerly of the 1000 block of Berg Street, is charged in the Dec. 9 slaying of 51-year-old Scott Ickes at Ickes’ home in Elton.
Police have said Winkleman had been staying temporarily with Ickes and that the shooting took place after Ickes pestered Winkleman for crack cocaine.
In the accident case, Winkleman allegedly fled on foot after a motorcycle he was operating crashed Aug. 4, 2007, at Oak and Fourth streets in East Conemaugh.
Police said that when Winkleman was questioned a day later, he gave them the name of another person.
In other police news:
• State police are looking for whomever broke into the Eastern Orthodox Foundation near Penn Run, Indiana County, and stole various equipment valued at $5,880.
Police said the theft took place between 5 p.m. Monday and 8:40 a.m. Tuesday.
Items taken include a copier, a large television, digital camera and a laptop computer, police said.
• A Gallitzin woman is facing a charge of hit and run following an accident in the borough on Tuesday.
State police said Tiffany S. Carper, 37, lost control of her car on Forest Street in Gallitzin Borough about 3 a.m. The 1991 Honda Accord struck a utility pole, disabling the car.
Police said Carper abandoned the car and fled the scene.
• In Addison, state police are investigating burglaries along Whites Creek Road that occurred Monday and Tuesday.
Police said numerous items were stolen.
The victims were: Todd Turney, unknown age, of Addison; Richard Hegedus, 50, of Ruffs Dale; William McComas, 60, of Washington; and Thomas Dolan, 53, of Washington.
• Altoona police said they arrested on drug charges a man who has no fixed address but who said that he just “floats’’ from house to house.
Lawrence Lamar Dawson, 18, was arrested Wednesday evening after police said they made a controlled buy of $100 of crack cocaine.
The bust went down in the area of 2nd Avenue and 4th Street. Police said they seized $425, a cell phone and nine individually wrapped $50 packages of crack.
Dawson was jailed in lieu of $60,000 straight cash bond.
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