Man fakes gas leak to oust 'other' man

DAWSON, Pa. (AP) - February 28, 2012 (WPVI) -- Police have charged a western Pennsylvania man with falsely reporting a natural gas leak, apparently because he was trying to determine if his girlfriend was hiding another man in her residence in an adjoining building.

Online court records don't list an attorney for 36-year-old Michael Sanner, of Dawson, who was charged Sunday, a day after police and fire crews responded to his girlfriend's residence.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says the woman told police that Sanner threatened to report a gas leak when she refused to let him into her residence on Saturday afternoon. That's when police went to Sanner's residence and determined the reported leak was false.

Police say Sanner told them he made the false report because he believed the woman had another man in the apartment.

Sanner doesn't have a listed phone.

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