SHARON 2 arrested after attack on Samaritan



One of those arrested is the brother of the police chief of an adjoining jurisdiction.
SHARON, Pa. -- Police arrested two people involved in an episode that started at the Sheetz store on East State Street and ended at Prospect Street and Walnut Avenue.
Details of the event, which happened at 3 a.m. Sunday, were sketchy, but police said it involved one woman and three men.
The woman, Sharon M. Anderson, 36, of South Oakland Avenue, was arrested on charges of theft and receiving stolen property. She was arraigned and freed on her own recognizance.
One of the men, Renwick Smoot, 45, of Farrell Terrace, Farrell, brother of Southwest Mercer County Regional Police Chief Riley Smoot, was charged with aggravated assault and freed on a $5,000 unsecured bond.
What police say
Police said Anderson, Smoot and a second man went to the Sheetz store and Anderson went inside. When she came back out, the men had moved the car and she thought they had left, police said.
She asked Jason Montgomery, 31, also of South Oakland Avenue, for a ride home and he obliged, police said.
Meanwhile, Smoot and the other man, who wasn't arrested, saw Anderson and Montgomery leaving. They later told police they thought Anderson might have been abducted.
They followed the car to Prospect Street, where it stopped, and Smoot ran up to the vehicle, hitting Montgomery in the head with a beer bottle, police said.
Montgomery was treated at Sharon Regional Health System.
Police said Anderson took Montgomery's cell phone from his car during the melee and it was found in the vehicle occupied by Smoot and the other man.