LATROBE, Pa. — Jailhouse phone calls and writings led police to search the property of a man tied to the disappearance of a Westmoreland County mother.
Investigators found 17 guns on Thomas Stanko’s property, as well as a storage unit, according to search warrants obtained by Channel 11.
Stanko’s attorney claims Pennsylvania State Police did not have probable cause to search the property in August of 2018.
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Stanko’s girlfriend, Cassandra Gross, disappeared four months before that.
In January of 2019, a judge legally declared her dead.
No charges have been filed in connection to her disappearance.
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