Thursday, November 29, 2012
The Bethel Park Dairy Queen was robbed Friday night and might be connected to other nearby robberies.
Bethel Park police are interviewing the suspects arrested in the Union Township Dairy Queen robbery case. The Dairy Queen is located just miles up Route 88 from the Bethel Park Dairy Queen that was robbed the night before, on Friday, Nov. 23. Chief John Mackey said detectives suspect the man might be connected to the Bethel Park Dairy Queen robbery, the Bethel Park Sunoco attempted robbery and Castle Shannon Subway robbery. The descriptions in each case are similar, he said. "We don't deal with that many robberies," Mackey said. "What are the chances it's different people?" Along with interviewing the Union Township suspect, Mackey said detectives are combing through surveillance video to try to identify the suspect or suspects. Follow us …
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The robbery might be linked to the Sunoco attempted robbery on Route 19.
Bethel Park police are searching for the man who robbed the Dairy Queen on Route 88. Police are investigating whether it was the same man who robbed a Subway in Castle Shannon and attempted to rob the Sunoco on Route 19 in Bethel Park last Wednesday, according to WPXI. A Dairy Queen employee told WPXI that the man walked up to the counter with a grocery bag and demanded money. He was wearing a black hoodie, sunglasses, a face mask and showed a gun. The Sunoco near the Upper St. Clair Township border was robbed last Wednesday afternoon. The new employee didn't know how to open the register and ran and locked himself in a back room, so the man didn't get away with any money when he showed a gun. A Dairy Queen on Route 88 in Union Township …
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Hint: The store isn't technically in Upper St. Clair.
When it comes to finding a cool treat on a hot summer night, Upper St. Clair Patch readers voted Bruster's number one. The Bethel Park ice cream shop picked up 26 percent of the vote in this week's Readers' Choice poll that closed at 5 p.m. Friday. Dairy Delite in Bridgeville came in a close second with 23 percent of the vote. And with 15 percent of the vote, the Dairy Queen inside South Hills Village took third. Congratulations Bruster's!
