{"id":157118,"date":"2026-04-04T11:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157118\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:13:08","slug":"pennsylvania-state-police-search-for-man-accused-of-raping-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157118\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police search for man accused of raping minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania State police searching for man accused of sex crimes against a minor<\/p>\n<p>An arrest warrant is out for Matthew Barth<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769019068_844_wtae.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WTAE logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 6:49 AM EDT Apr 4, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPennsylvania State Police are looking for a man accused of raping a minor. An arrest warrant has been issued for 42-year-old Matthew Barth, of Eighty Four.Barth is facing numerous charges, including rape of a minor and sexual assault. He is 6 feet tall and 200 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He&#8217;s known to frequent Washington, Bentleyville, Brownsville, Belle Vernon, Donora, and Pittsburgh City areas.Anyone with information is encouraged to contact PSP Washington at 724-223-5200  or PSP Tips Toll Free at 1-800-472-8477. People with information can also fill out the Pennsylvania State Police tip form.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tWASHINGTON \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police are looking for a man accused of raping a minor. <\/p>\n<p>An arrest warrant has been issued for 42-year-old Matthew Barth, of Eighty Four.<\/p>\n<p>Barth is facing numerous charges, including rape of a minor and sexual assault. <\/p>\n<p>He is 6 feet tall and 200 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s known to frequent Washington, Bentleyville, Brownsville, Belle Vernon, Donora, and Pittsburgh City areas.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is encouraged to contact PSP Washington at 724-223-5200  or PSP Tips Toll Free at 1-800-472-8477. People with information can also fill out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/tipform.aspx?ID=107&amp;fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExSlJBaElSU09wVmM2b2J3T3NydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6zpj_EvWELS0dJ4r133h1m4Mximc1eTYtZPV4_v4nvYxErz0q69i0yMDdezQ_aem_xEAOa7flA2EAcK-7fYI3OA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pennsylvania State Police tip form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State police searching for man accused of sex crimes against a minor An arrest warrant is out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71200,2899,71206,45089,50451,5863,71201,64319,14115,3229,71202,68935,71207,57033,71204,297,1021,5112,1399,71197,14487,71205,28,30,29,1224,33884,71199,71208,71198,71203,337,42974,27436],"class_list":{"0":"post-157118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-accused","9":"tag-arrest-warrant","10":"tag-barth","11":"tag-belle-vernon","12":"tag-bentleyville","13":"tag-brown-eye","14":"tag-brown-eyes","15":"tag-brown-hair","16":"tag-brownsville","17":"tag-charges","18":"tag-contact-police","19":"tag-donora","20":"tag-eighty","21":"tag-eighty-four","22":"tag-frequent-washington","23":"tag-information","24":"tag-investigation","25":"tag-kmce","26":"tag-man","27":"tag-matthew-barth","28":"tag-minor","29":"tag-numerous-charge","30":"tag-pennsylvania","31":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","32":"tag-pennsylvania-news","33":"tag-pennsylvania-state-police","34":"tag-pennsylvania-state-police-search","35":"tag-pittsburgh-city","36":"tag-pittsburgh-city-area","37":"tag-psp-washington","38":"tag-rape-of-a-minor","39":"tag-sexual-assault","40":"tag-tip-line","41":"tag-wanted"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}