Rocky 99 Johnstown | radioNovo News for Johnstown: May 1, 2026

RNN JOHNSTOWN 05/01/26          TWO MEN ARE BEHIND THE CAMBRIA COUNTY PRISON BARS TODAY, FOLLOWING A HIGH-SPEED CHASE THROUGH JOHNSTOWN’S MOXHAM NEIGHBORHOOD ON WEDNESDAY.           KASIR AND EMANUEL PATTERSON WERE ARRESTED AFTER A BRIEF FOOT PURSUIT, SEIZING OVER 200 GRAMS OF CRACK COCAINE WITH A STREET VALUE OF 21-THOUSAND DOLLARS. THE BUST WAS PART OF A MAJOR MULTI-AGENCY OPERATION THAT INCLUDED 25 TRAFFIC STOPS AND THE SEIZURE OF CASH AND MARIJUANA.           ON TUESDAY, JOHNSTOWN POLICE ARRESTED TWO MEN ALLEGEDLY DEALING DRUBS AT THE LUXOR GARDENS APARTMENT COMPLEX.  29-YEAR OLD ABDULLAH BATTLE AND 24-YEAR OLD DASHAWN MCKOY WERE REPORTEDLY FOUND WITH A .45 CALIBER HANDGUN WITH A MISSING SERIAL NUMBER AND DRUG PARAPHERNALIA AND PACKAGING EQUIPMENT IN THEIR APARTMENT.  THEY ARE ALSO BEING HELD AT THE CAMBRIA COUNTY PRISON, AWAITING FURTHER COURT PROCESSING.           CONVICTED WIFE-MURDERER BRIAN GILES WAS BACK IN CAMBRIA COUNTY COURT THURSDAY FOR A PRE-TRIAL HEARING IN HIS SECOND HOMICIDE CASE. CONVICTED LAST JUNE FOR KILLING HIS WIFE, GILES IS NOW CHARGED WITH KILLING OF HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND, JILLY TODARO.  GILES ALSO ASKED FOR A TRANSFER TO A STATE PRISON, CLAIMING HE'S BEING MISTREATED AT THE CAMBRIA COUNTY PRISON.  PROSECUTORS HAVE UNTIL MAY 14TH TO SUBMIT EVIDENCE.  GILES NEXT COURT DATE IS JUNE 9TH.