STUDENT ACCUSED IN ASSAULT OF CAL U COP

CALIFORNIA - A California University of Pennsylvania student was
sent to the Washington County Correctional Facility for allegedly
assaulting a university police officer who responded to a report
about the odor of marijuana Friday night.

Steve Orbin, a campus police officer, responded to a call 10 p.m.
Friday from student advisors at Residence E who said they smelled
marijuana outside Room 411.

Orbin and police Sgt. Mark Gazi knocked on the door, which was
answered by [Name redacted]. However, [Name redacted], a student,
did not allow the officers to enter.

The officers subsequently forced their way inside the room and found
student [Name redacted], 19, of Dunbar, trying to flush something
down a toilet in the bathroom.

[Name redacted] ran out of the room and Orbin began to chase him.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, Orbin and [Name
redacted] scuffled. Orbin suffered a severe knee injury. [Name
redacted] kicked the officer as they wrestled on the floor.

Gazi witnessed the scuffle between Orbin and [Name redacted].

[Name redacted] escaped from the injured officer and ran through a
fire exit, which set off an alarm.

[Name redacted], 18, of Gaithersburg, Md., and [Name redacted], who
is not a student, were arrested without incident in the room.

Brownsville emergency personnel transported Orbin to Monongahela
Valley Hospital in Carroll Township, where he was treated for the
knee injury and released.

Police seized a bag of suspected drugs from the dorm room.

[Name redacted] and [Name redacted] are expected to be charged
with unspecified offenses today, Cal U spokesman Bruce Wald said.

The university police officers were assisted at the scene by police
from California Borough and Centerville.

[Name redacted] ultimately was apprehended and later charged with
aggravated assault, escape, false alarms to agencies of public
safety, resisting arrest, simple assault, assault on a police
officer, and disorderly conduct.

He was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Larry Hopkins, of
Charleroi, and jailed in lieu of $25,000 bond.