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Tara Howard

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Canonsburg Woman Charged With False Reports Over Peters Shooting 'Hoax'

Tara Howard was jailed after failing to post $5,000 bond.

A Canonsburg woman was jailed early Thursday after being charged by Peters Township police with disorderly conduct and making false reports. Tara Howard, 36, was charged by Peters Township police Wednesday and arraigned early Thursday before district Judge Jay Weller, online court records indicate. The Observer Reporter newspaper indicates that several area departments surrounded a house in the 400 block of Justabout Road in Peters Township Wednesday afternoon after Washington County 911 received a call that someone was shot and bleeding inside the residence. It was later determined to be a hoax, as reported online by the Peters Township Volunteer Fire Department on its Facebook page. Weller remanded Howard to the Washington County Jail …

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Peters Township Police Department (in Peters Patch)

Friday, December 7, 2012

Police Blotter: Woman Found Lying in Yard to be Cited with Public Drunkenness

Canonsburg police also responded to a report of criminal mischief.

When Brad Jox called Canonsburg police late Thursday, he said he originally thought there was garbage lying in the driveway of his Arlington Drive home. But it was a woman he told police was intoxicated. Jox told police that because of that, he had “almost run her over” and that when he tried to speak with her she “stumbled away” and was lying in a yard a few doors down. When police arrived they discovered Tara Howard, of 213 Arlington Dr. and officers indicated she was “incoherent and couldn’t talk.” A police report added: “She was highly intoxicated and couldn’t stand.” Officers then knocked on the door of 218 Arlington Dr., the home outside which Howard had been found. Linda Russell answered the door and told police she had invited …

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Canonsburg Police Department and Canonsburg General Hospital

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