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March 26, 2019

3 charged in pizza delivery robbery

By Mon Valley Independent

By JEFF STITT

jstitt@yourmvi.com

Two men and a teenage girl were arrested Monday after allegedly robbing a pizza delivery driver at gunpoint in McKeesport.

Randy Lamont Johnson, 24, of Pleasant Road, Pittsburgh, Tymerre R. Brown, 19, of Lincoln Avenue, Clairton, and Chyanne Nicole Howard, 17, of McKeesport are accused of forcing a delivery driver from the Walnut Street-based Pizzaburgh restaurant to give them more than $70 worth of food on Tuesday. Howard is being charged as an adult.

In an affidavit of probable cause, McKeesport police say the men held delivery driver Jason Hazaga at gunpoint with what was an Airsoft pistol.

Hazaga told police that when he arrived about 9 p.m. to the Versailles Avenue address that Johnson gave over the phone, he noticed there were no lights on in the home and it appeared to be vacant. Despite that, he walked onto the porch and knocked on the door. As he was waiting for someone to answer, he noticed a black male, later identified as Brown, standing several feet away from the left side of house “watching” him, an affidavit of probable cause states.

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