SEWICKLY TOWNSHIP MAN SWIMS ACROSS YOUGH RIVER TO ELUDE POLICE

Police said that a Sewickley Township man tried to elude officers by swimming across the Youghiogheny River on Monday.  The Trib reports that 68-year-old Robert Mayfield is charged with resisting arrest, terroristic threats, criminal mischief and other crimes connected with an incident on Monday on First Street.  Police say he reportedly damaged a boat tire, hid from authorities, then swam the river and hid in a wooded area to elude capture.  Police used a helicopter and fire department crews to find him.  Mayfield is in jail on $5000 bail with a preliminary hearing set for May 11th.