Car Theft Suspect Will Stand Trial

The suspect in a California Borough car theft waived his charges to court on Tuesday. Antwane Cunningham, 30  of Monongahela is accused by California  Borough Police of taking a car out of a convenience store parking lot on March 1. He is charged with felony counts of robbery of a motor vehicle, criminal mischief and flight to avoid an officer among others. According to the criminal complaint, Cunningham led police on a car chase from California through Elco, Roscoe, Stockdale, Allenport and Dunlevy before crashing the car just outside of Speers. Cunningham attempted to flee on foot before officers tazed him to arrest him. Cunningham is being held in the Washington County Jail without bond. He is on probation from an earlier conviction and has an arrest warrant out on him from Georgia. He will be arraigned on April 27.