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‘Sometimes when you play with fire, you get burned’: Pair sentenced in fatal, botched robbery of Allentown man who opened fire

By Laurie Mason Schroeder
Two would-be robbers who attacked an Allentown man, who turned his registered and permitted handgun on them and killed a third robber, were sentenced Tuesday to state prison.

Noting that the robbery target who fired the fatal shot was “an innocent victim,” Lehigh County Judge Robert L. Steinberg told Andrew Eberts and Kaitlyn Acierno that they were fortunate they were not also killed.

“Sometimes when you play with fire, you get burned,” Steinberg said.
Two would-be robbers who attacked an Allentown man, who turned his registered and permitted handgun on them and killed a third robber, were sentenced Tuesday to state prison.

Noting that the robbery target who fired the fatal shot was “an innocent victim,” Lehigh County Judge Robert L. Steinberg told Andrew Eberts and Kaitlyn Acierno that they were fortunate they were not also killed.

“Sometimes when you play with fire, you get burned,” Steinberg said.

The judge sentenced Acierno, 29, of Dublin, Bucks County, to three to 10 years behind bars. Eberts, 32, of Allentown, who had a lengthier prior record than his co-defendant, received a seven- to 15-year sentence.

The robbery occurred Feb. 16 in an alley off the 1000 block of Turner Street. Using the website “Skip the Games,” Acierno attempted to lure men into the alley around 2 a.m., where her boyfriend, Shane Gesnaker, and Eberts, a friend, were waiting to rob them.

When Antonio Santiago pulled his car into the alley, the trio wrongly assumed he had answered
Acierno’s ad. He was coming home from work.

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Masked robber scared off by gunfire after he beat Cleveland store employee, police say

By Adam Ferrise
CLEVELAND, Ohio— A masked robber jumped the counter of a grocery store and pummeled an employee before the employee fired a gun and scared him away, police say.

James Stuart Jr., 19, is charged with aggravated robbery. He was arrested by police after officers saw him run from the store. He is expected to make his first court appearance on Wednesday.

The incident happened about noon Monday at the Food Plus store on East 123rd Street and Dove Avenue in the city’s Union-Miles neighborhood. Stuart strolled into the store wearing a brown mask and jumped over the counter, according to police reports and court records. He punched the 38-year-old employee at least six times leaving him bloodied and on the ground, according to police.

The two fought over the employee’s gun. The employee wrested the gun away and fired a single shot, which scared Stuart, police reports say. Stuart ran out of the building as officers arrived.

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Police: Wichita homeowner shoots woman, possible squatter during burglary

The Wichita Police Department released more details about a shooting that occurred during a burglary on Tuesday.

It happened around 4 p.m. at a home in the 400 block of S. Garst.

Officers say the property owner went to check on the home because it had been burglarized several times over the last couple of months.

He entered the residence and found a woman and three men inside. The four ran out the front door, and the homeowner fired one shot from his handgun, striking a 50-year-old woman.

Police say the woman left in a 2012 white Ford Focus, and the men ran away.

Police believe at some point the men got back into Ford Focus with the woman then fled in the 900 block of South Seneca location. That’s where officers located the woman. She was taken to hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries and remains hospitalized.

Investigators have not gotten the chance to interview the woman because of her injuries. They say they’re still looking for the three men, and the property owner in cooperating with the investigation. He is the one who called 911.

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Today, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes, one achieving ambient temperature, four inconvenienced, and another three in the wind. Wonder if they know any Armenians.

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