A Pittsburgh man who is facing charges in several theft cases involving vehicles has also been charged for riding a stolen dirt bike at the Tionesta Indian Festival last month and fleeing from the Forest County sheriff and a deputy.
The sheriff’s office said in a criminal complaint that Thomas Cunningham, 26, was observed riding a dirt bike motorcycle on Aug. 20 in the ballfield and on River Street in Tionesta.
The vehicle was later determined to have been stolen, the complaint said.
Cunningham fled again from Sheriff Bill Carbaugh a little bit later, according to the complaint.
Cunningham was charged with a felony count of receiving stolen property and misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and fleeing or attempting to elude an officer as well as several summary counts.
Cunningham is also a suspect in a vehicle theft Sunday from a Washington Township home in Clarion County that ended in a hit and run crash in Lucinda.
And he is facing 20 charges stemming from an incident in June in which he is accused of breaking into vehicles at six residences in the area of Marianne Estates, Clarion state police said in a criminal complaint filed Wednesday.
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