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Pa. Woman Charged With Assault After Cracking EMT`s Rib With Kick

Mary Pickels
06/27/2016

June 26--A Fayette County woman was charged with aggravated assault after she allegedly kicked an emergency medical technician, cracking the woman's rib.

Amanda Gabrielle Russo, 26, of Fairchance, also is charged with simple assault, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and harassment.

According to state police, Russo became "extremely combative" during a medical transport in the area of Hicks Street on Thursday and kicked the unidentified female EMT.

Russo was arraigned before District Judge Ronald J. Haggerty Jr. and placed in the Fayette County Jail on $15,000 bail.

She faces a preliminary hearing Wednesday before Haggerty.

Copyright 2016 - Tribune-Review, Greensburg, Pa.

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