Sex-crime charges withdrawn against New Castle man


July 8, 2011 at 4:11a.m.

NEW CASTLE, Pa.

Sex-crime charges were withdrawn against a Neshannock Township man. Joseph Granata, 52, had been charged with a sexual assault on a 25-year-old woman in March 2010, Neshannock Township police said.

Granata denied assaulting the woman. The charges were withdrawn at his preliminary hearing Wednesday morning in Lawrence County Central Court.