Greene jury finds man guilty

WAYNESBURG – An Allegheny County man was found guilty of receiving stolen property in a jury trial before Judge William Nalitz on Wednesday. Randy Richard Plecha, 29, of 1331 Main St., Crescent, was arrested in Gray Township on Nov. 19, 2012.
On a routine patrol in Graysville Nov. 11, 2012, police were asked to run a license plate on a Chevy Cobalt that was parked in a gravel lot next to the Graysville Store.
The Ohio plate on the car was found to be registered under a 2007 Volkswagen Sedan. When police ran the vehicle’s identification number through their system they learned that the Cobalt had been reported stolen by its owner, Jean Endler, from Beaver County Sept. 23, 2012.
A witness, Peggy L. Pettit, told police Plecha was the person she knew to be in possession of the car. Another witness, Amber Sue Pikula told police Plecha had come to her residence the last week of September in 2012 to stay for a few days. Pikula said Plecha told her he had borrowed the car from a girlfriend. When Pikula questioned him further about the vehicle he left, she said.
Plecha would then go to the residence of Frank Mike Pikula to stay. Frank Pikula said Plecha told him he had traded two pickup trucks for the car and found it odd when Plecha asked to park it behind Pikula’s garage instead of in the front.
Frank Pikula said he also found it odd that the registration on the vehicle was for Ohio but the inspection sticker was for Pennsylvania. On one occasion, Plecha left Frank Pikula’s residence and returned without the car. He told Frank Pikula that he had lost the keys and someone helped him push the car into the gravel lot next to the Graysville Store.
Police said the actual registration plate for the Cobalt was found at Frank Pikula’s residence among Plecha’s belongings.
Plecha will be sentenced at a later date.