State police say they are looking for the person responsible for stealing a motorcycle at gunpoint in Creekside Borough last night.
Troopers were sent out to a home in the 200 block of Indiana Road for the reported theft. Investigators learned that the victim, identified only as a 27-year-old man, was at his home and trying to sell his Harley-Davidson Fatboy motorcycle to 39-year-old Jacob Penrose of North Apollo. Penrose allegedly aimed a gun at him before he fled on the bike. The victim got into his own car and followed Penrose until he lost sight of him near Old Route 56 and West Lebanon Road in Armstrong Township. Police found the motorcycle ditched along a hillside on West Lebanon Road, and the gun, which was dropped during the chase. A subsequent search of the area using K-9 officers and Indiana County Emergency Management Agency officials did not turn up the suspect.
Penrose is described as a white man, about six-feet three-inches tall, weighing 200 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes with tattoos on the front of his neck. He was last seen wearing a black cut-off T-shirt and blue jeans.
A warrant has been issued for his arrest. Anyone with information on Penrose’s whereabouts can call state police at 724-357-1960.
