A Pittsburgh man faces charges after police say he followed a University of Pittsburgh student into his off-campus apartment over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Chaz R. Corlew Jr., 20, of Mt. Oliver was charged with stalking, burglary, simple assault, strangulation, indecent assault and resisting arrest, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
According to a sworn affidavit, Corlew followed the male victim into his apartment complex, HERE Pittsburgh on the 3000 block of Forbes Avenue, using what police said was a set of master keys to the building.<\/p>\n
Chris Bartlett, a spokesman for HERE Pittsburgh, said Corlew \u201cwas in possession of a stolen, inactive fob to our building. This was not a master key.\u201d<\/p>\n
After entering the apartment, Corlew allegedly propositioned the victim and grabbed him before trying to lead him into a bedroom, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Corlew then allegedly placed the man in a choke-hold, according to a criminal complaint. The man freed himself and ran away to call police. He later encountered Corlew again and made his way through a crowded part of the street to avoid Corlew.<\/p>\n
The man met with police and provided a description of Corlew, who was located shortly after and taken into custody, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Police said the items in Corlew\u2019s possession included a key card to the victim\u2019s apartment and a master key card able to open any door in the building, something HERE officials disputed.<\/p>\n
Corlew was unable to post $5,000 bail and taken to Allegheny County Jail. A Sept. 3 preliminary hearing is set in Pittsburgh Municipal Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pittsburgh man faces charges after police say he followed a University of Pittsburgh student into his off-campus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-272119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272119","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=272119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}