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Police: Woman failed to appear for 3 cases

Reading arrested on bench warrant

A Tyrone woman is in jail after failing to show up to court on three cases.

Taylor Reading, 21, 1558 Pennsylvania Ave., was arrested Monday night on Broad Avenue on a bench warrant tied to three Altoona police criminal cases filed last summer. Magisterial District Judge Jeffrey Auker requested a bench warrant Aug. 24 after Reading failed to appear for her preliminary hearing at Central Court.

According to the charges filed in July and August, Taylor is accused of obstructing police on July 6 when officers arrived at a home on the 1500 block of 10th Street to search a house for heroin. Reading refused to comply with officers’ orders to drop her cellphone as she appeared to be sending messages to someone. Police said Reading yelled and swore at officers as they tried to clear the house and after she learned they were confiscating her phone.

Reading also had a small bag of marijuana stuffed in her bra, and the drug “Molly” was found in her purse, police said. Reading denied she knew anything about heroin found in the house, although police pointed out it was found in the bedroom where she was when police arrived.

In that case, Reading is charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a small amount of marijuana and obstructing administration of law.

Two days later, Reading allegedly threw a brick into a car after she exchanged words with the driver, whom she knew.

According to police, at 8:15 p.m. July 9, Reading threw a brick at the black Ford sedan after the driver and Reading exchanged words on the 800 block of Lexington Avenue.

Police said the brick hit the top of the driver-side rear passenger door, causing minor damage, before it flew through the open window and struck a man sitting in the back seat. He suffered minor injuries to his left arm and torso, police noted.

The third incident in which Reading is charged occurred on July 12 on the 200 block of Cherry Avenue, police said. It was there that Reading allegedly used a hammer to smash out both windows on the passenger side of a man’s Suzuki X4. Reading also allegedly took the hammer to the windshield, damaging it.

Reading was arrested later that night and charged with assault, a case she has since waived to court, for allegedly biting her grandfather.

Reading’s bail was set Tuesday morning by Magisterial District Judge Jeffrey Auker at $5,000 cash for each of the three outstanding cases. She remains in Blair County Prison and is slated to appear at Central Court for a preliminary hearing on March 8.

Mirror Staff Writer Greg Bock is at 946-7458.

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