Police have charged a Pittsburgh man with breaking into a home, impersonating a Pennsylvania state trooper and stealing car keys last week in the city\u2019s Greenfield neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Officers charged Luke James Miller, 36, of Hazelwood with burglary, criminal trespassing, impersonating a public servant and other counts in the Wednesday home invasion.<\/p>\n
Police arrested Miller on Saturday and took him to the Allegheny County Jail, where a district judge denied bail. His attorney was not listed Tuesday in online court records.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh police were dispatched around 12:15 a.m. Wednesday for a burglary in progress at a home in the 900 block of Greenfield Avenue.<\/p>\n
A woman who lives in the house said she heard a loud noise at the front door from her second-floor bedroom, according to a criminal complaint. The woman \u201cgrabbed a shower curtain rod and walked towards the steps, down to the first floor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said she saw the man later identified as Miller, dressed in black pants and a black tank top, on the stair\u2019s landing between the first and second floors.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not supposed to be here,\u201d the woman told Miller, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
\u201cState trooper, you\u2019re under arrest!\u201d police said Miller yelled in response.<\/p>\n
Police said Miller then ran away down Greenfield Avenue. The woman went to chase him onto Greenfield Avenue but she fell, injuring her big toe, the complaint said.<\/p>\n
The front door had been \u201cknocked off its hinges\u201d and was laying on the living room floor, the complaint said. It had been deadbolted shut.<\/p>\n
The only thing missing from the home were keys to a Hyundai sedan that belongs to the woman\u2019s father, the complaint said.<\/p>\n
Camera footage showed Miller return to the victim\u2019s home Friday, the complaint said. Police did not elaborate in the criminal complaint against him.<\/p>\n
Kathleen Miller, the suspect\u2019s mother, later told police officers that her son previously lived at the Greenfield Avenue home he entered.<\/p>\n
Miller also \u201chas been having ongoing mental health issues,\u201d his mother told police, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Police said two people in the house at the time of the break-in identified Miller in photo arrays. His preliminary hearing is Sept. 9. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have charged a Pittsburgh man with breaking into a home, impersonating a Pennsylvania state trooper and stealing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-277010","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\/277010","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=277010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}