About an hour before midnight, on Aug. 18, 2015. 61-year-old Mark Cichanski heard the burglar alarm sound at his family business, Cirelli Jewelers, 5903 Market St., where he and his wife, Mariellen, also make their home, in the upstairs of the building. Checking his video surveillance system, Cichanski saw someone inside the business, rifling through display cases and stealing jewelry.
      Armed with a handgun, Cichanski locked the door that separates the business from the living area, and exited the front door of the residence, where he was immediately confronted by the burglar, who was exiting from the door to the business.
      Cichanski told police when the burglar moved quickly towards him, he drew the Beretta pistol he carried and fired seven to eight shots at the man.
      A trail of blood insured the burglar was shot, and led to a nearby parking lot, where police said they found a “large, concentrated pool of blood,” some of which was reportedly collected and given to the Bureau of Criminal Identification for DNA testing.
      Cichanski said he thought he hit the burglar in the right shoulder, and when he did, the man dropped a backpack that contained some 89 pieces of jewelry valued at $97,000, all from Cirelli’s.
      According to police, a video surveillance system confirmed Cichanski’s story.
      Within a week, a man checked into a hospital in Beaver County, Pa., claiming he had been shot in a parking lot in Boardman Township. That story, Pennsylvania authorities believe, was false and on Aug. 25, 2015, 54-year-old Norman F. Harvey, of 60 Gregory St., Aliquippa, Pa., was arrested by the Beaver Falls, Pa. Police Department on misdemeanor charges of making false reports and furnishing authorities with information without knowledge.
      Harvey, who has a lengthy criminal record, has been incarcerated in Pennsylvania since his arrest by Beaver Falls PD, and his cases on the phoney information charges are set to be heard on Mar. 7.
      As charges lodged in Boardman Court show, Harvey is the suspect local police want for the Cirelli break-in.
      It was just last week that the Boardman Police Department released Cichanski’s Beretta back to him.
      However, five months after the burglary, authorities still are holding onto the jewelry that was found in the backpack.
      “Cichanski provided...an itemized list and description of the recovered stolen merchandise,” Officer Daniel Baker said.
      “I can tell you, if we had that merchandise, we could have easily sold at last half of it by now,” Cichanski said on Monday, noting he was originally told he could get the stolen jewelry back “in a day or so.”
      Harvey has yet to even be brought to a hearing in Mahoning County on the burglary charge stemming from the Aug. 18, 2015 shooting.
      Det. Glenn Riddle suggested when the court cases in western Pennsylvania are adjudicated, Harvey could be brought to Mahoning County, where in addition to Cirelli burglary, he faces a theft charge lodged on Aug. 1, 2015 at Lowes.
      In the meantime, the $97,000 worth of jewelry has to be held as evidence, until Harvey is brought to Mahoning County where he will likely receive a court-appointed attorney to represent him, Riddle said.
      “We’ve been told if he has an attorney, then his counsel and the prosecutor’s office could reach an agreement the evidence was stolen from Cirelli’s, and Mr. Cichanski could then get his jewelry back,” Det. Riddle said, adding that DNA tests conducted by the BCI match Harvey’s blood found in the parking lot the night of the burglary.
      Cichanski said on Monday a review of his outside surveillance camera footage more than two weeks prior to the Aug. 18 burglary showed Harvey outside of his business
      Harvey was originally lodged in the Beaver Count Jail.
      According to Pennsylvania Department of Corrections record, Harvey is now one of some 2077 inmates housed at the State Correctional Institution, Brenner Township, near Bellafonte, Pa. The jail was built in 2013 with a capacity of 1900 inmates, and is already overcrowded, at 109 per cent of capacity.
      The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections lists several aliases for Norman F. Harvey, including Francis Harvey, Walter Jackson, Francis Latimore, James Savoy and Richard Wimberly.