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Police: Elaborate claim of North Charleroi armed robbery was fake

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NORTH CHARLEROI – An Allegheny County man is accused of inventing a claim that he was robbed of $1,200 by a man he found on Craigslist who arranged to sell him a dirt bike in North Charleroi.

Charleroi Regional police filed a charge of making false reports to law enforcement in the case Friday against Carlo Daugherty Jr., 32, of McKees Rocks, court records show.

Police said Daugherty approached an officer about 4 p.m. Oct. 25 at Lock No. Four Fire Company, claiming to have been robbed of his designer wallet and cellphone in a parking lot behind a pizza shop in the 300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Daugherty further claimed the man named Brandon who pretended to have the dirt bike for sale pulled out a 9 mm handgun and said, “You just got beat,” the affidavit indicates.

He also said he had spent the night in a hotel in Monongahela before arriving at the pizza shop that day.

While investigating the complaint, police discovered that Daugherty gave the officer a home address in Pittsburgh that does not exist.

There was no advertisement on Craigslist involving a dirt bike for sale, and there are no hotels in Monongahela, police stated in court records.

There also was nothing on the pizza shop’s surveillance camera that indicated a robbery had taken place.

District Judge Larry Hopkins issued the charge Friday in a summons.

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