Suspect's residence searched by cops

Police: Apartment search turns up cash, bank book.
BEAVER, Pa. (AP) -- A search of the apartment of a man arrested on a probation violation during an investigation into the robbery and murder of a doctor turned up $950 in cash and a bank book in the name of the victim's wife, police said.
Authorities released a list Wednesday of the items Pennsylvania state police took from the apartment of Damian Bradford, 23, in an investigation of the murder of Dr. Gulam Moonda, 69, a Hermitage urologist, on the Ohio Turnpike. Bradford has not been charged in the case.
Moonda was shot once in head by a man who got out of a van and demanded money after his wife pulled over so they could switch seats along the Ohio Turnpike in North Royalton, a Cleveland suburb, on May 13, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Neither Moonda's wife nor her mother were injured. Authorities have not said how much money was taken.
State police investigators searched Bradford's apartment in Monaca, about 20 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, on Friday after two confidential informants told authorities that he had been having an affair with Donna Moonda, 46, the victim's wife.
Among the items police said they found were three pink bath towels with "biological stains," which authorities declined to describe further, and a bank book for an account listed under Donna Moonda's maiden name, according to WPXI and KDKA-TV.
Police also said they found $950 in cash, according to KDKA-TV.
Police said they also found injectable steroids, hypodermic needles, a digital scale and other equipment used to package drugs. In an affidavit of probable cause for the search of the apartment, police said Bradford had told them he had sold cocaine "to make ends meet."
Bradford's attorney, Jim Ecker, said the money and other items taken from his client's apartment didn't tie him to the doctor's death. Ecker said Bradford told police that the stains were menstrual blood.
"If it was used in a homicide, I am sure as hell he wouldn't put it in a clothes hamper," Ecker said.
He said the drug allegations would appear to have nothing to do with the Ohio case.
Looking for evidence
Bradford remained in the Beaver County Jail on Wednesday on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and a probation violation stemming from the search.
In the affidavit, police said they were looking for Dr. Moonda's wallet, blood or other tissue as well as any evidence showing a sexual or financial relationship between Donna Moonda and Bradford.
Cleveland attorney Niki Schwartz, representing Donna Moonda, told KDKA-TV on Wednesday that his client has been cooperating with the investigators but was shocked by allegations that have surfaced since her husband's death.
"Imagine seeing your husband brutally murdered by a highway robber ... and to have extremely embarrassing aspects of your personal life broadcast to the world and then to discover you're suspected of being involved in this horrible crime," Schwartz said. "You can imagine... I guess no one can imagine how that must feel."
Schwartz did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment Wednesday.