{"id":215650,"date":"2025-10-11T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/215650\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T01:31:07","slug":"man-accused-of-breaking-into-care-home-threatening-worker-in-westmoreland-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/215650\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of breaking into care home, threatening worker in Westmoreland County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4e761757da00671eea29bdb5409299b2.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man is charged with breaking into a care home in Unity Township and threatening a worker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the victim was working an overnight shift at Kelly\u2019s Personal Care Home last month when she found Ryan Dewayne Hoover, 35, of Latrobe, inside the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Court documents say he demanded that she perform a sex act on him or he would kill her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the victim told Hoover to leave and pretended she was getting a gun out of her car to protect herself. He then left on foot, traveling toward Beatty County Road.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers said they identified Hoover as a suspect after they found a vehicle left abandoned near the facility. It was registered to his father. They found an eBay sales record on the passenger floor under Ryan Hoover\u2019s name. Police obtained a picture of him and the victim was able to confirm that he was the man who had threatened her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hoover has a court hearing scheduled in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is charged with breaking into a care home in Unity Township and threatening a worker. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,122240,452,453,122241],"class_list":["post-215650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-ryan-dewayne-hoover","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-unity-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}