JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Police have jailed a western Pennsylvania man who was allegedly digging up a marijuana plant in his yard as officers arrived to arrest him on unrelated theft charges.
Twenty-three-year-old Jon Beltz Jr., of Johnstown, is in the Cambria County Jail.
Johnstown police went to Beltz's home to arrest him Wednesday on charges that he stole nearly $2,700 from a woman's bank account by using her identity to make 32 withdrawals. Police say he also sold more than $12,000 of the her jewelry and computer equipment.
That's when police saw Beltz standing next to a freshly dug hole and holding the plant, which they charged him with possessing.
Beltz faces a preliminary hearing Sept. 16 according to online court records which don't list an attorney for him.
