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| State prison guard arrested |
| By pittsburghlive.com - Bob Bauder |
| Published: 08/05/2011 |
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Allegheny County police requested a Beaver County SWAT team to help arrest a state prison guard early Thursday because they believed he had weapons in his home and is a white supremacist and member of a biker gang, an official said. Police charged Tory D. Kelly, 39, of Hopewell, with threatening and intimidating a fellow corrections officer, Curtis Hoffman, 45, who state officials name as a witness in an investigation of alleged staff misconduct at the state prison in Woods Run, according to a criminal complaint. Anthony Q. McClure, tactical commander of the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit, said the Allegheny County District Attorney's office requested the squad's assistance in arresting Kelly. "They asked us to do this because there was the threat of possible weapons and that he had those white supremacist viewpoints, as well as an association with the Pagan motorcycle gang," he said. McClure said SWAT members surrounded Kelly's house in the 3000 block of Bradbury Drive around 6:50 a.m. and ordered him to surrender, which he did without incident. Kelly was home with his wife and two children, and officers found no weapons in the house, McClure said. "It turned out real well," he said. "When there's a threat of weapons, based on what has happened in the past, police officers are more prone to request tactical squads these days." On Tuesday, according to the complaint, Kelly showed up outside Hoffman's house in Robinson and began screaming obscenities, accusing Hoffman of "talking behind his back," and challenging him to fight. Kelly left after Hoffman's wife told him she was calling police, according to the complaint. Someone accompanied Kelly to Hoffman's home but remained in Kelly's car, and Hoffman was unable to identify the person. Read More. |
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