TRAFFORD MAN SENTENCED FOR ASSAULTING WOMAN

A Trafford man was sentenced for assaulting a woman he paid for sex in Penn Township.  The Trib reports that 58-year-old Paul Zagowski was convicted of simple assault, harassment and unlawful restraint for the incident in August of 2024.  Prosecutors said he picked up the victim in Pittsburgh, paid her $150 to have sex, then drove her to a secluded area near an abandoned house where he threatened her with a knife, punched her in the abdomen and drove off with her belongings.  Zagowski had served over three decades in prison for a 1988 rape and for threatening a former U.S. President while incarcerated.