PA. CHEMICAL PLANT '60 Minutes' correspondent faces trespassing citation

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- CBS correspondent Steve Kroft, a freelance video cameraman and a Pittsburgh newspaper reporter were ticketed for trespassing at a chemical plant just outside the city last week, a plant official said Wednesday.
The newspaper reporter, Carl Prine, earlier this year wrote a series of stories for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on the dangers posed by lax security at chemical plants in post-Sept. 11 America.
Kroft is an investigative reporter for the CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes." The cameraman, Gregory E. Andracke, is a longtime freelance contributor to the program.
Jack Ferguson, vice president of manufacturing for Neville Chemical, which makes resins used in inks, paints, plastics and other products, confirmed the citations, which were first reported Wednesday on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Web site.
Police were called
The trio were stopped when they were spotted by plant officials, who called Neville Township police Sept. 22, Ferguson said. The plant is on Neville Island, just west of the city on the Monongahela River.
"I think they were working on a story about chemical-plant security," Ferguson said.
CBS News spokesman Kevin Tedesco declined to comment on the citation because he said officials there hadn't received it yet, or about the story on which Kroft and Andracke were working. Prine referred comment to the newspaper's editor, Frank Craig, who didn't immediately return calls for comment Wednesday.
All three defendants were mailed summary citations -- much like traffic tickets -- for trespassing, which carries a $25 fine. With court costs, each would owe $147 if they are convicted, according to the staff of District Justice Carla Swearingen.
Swearingen would preside at hearings if the tickets are challenged. Her staff said no hearings on the citations have been scheduled.