Woman forgives brother who stole from her
A 26-year-old Penn Township woman on Thursday said she forgave her younger brother for breaking into her home at the Port-O-Call trailer park and stealing a .380-caliber pistol.
Ian Zang, 20, of Butler was sentenced Thursday in three cases, including one for trespassing in his sister's Penn Township home.
In Zang's most serious case, Judge William Shaffer sentenced Zang to 15 to 36 months in jail for aggravated assault related to an armed robbery March 7, 2020. In the case with his sister, Allison Kubrt, he was sentenced to 18 months of probation to run simultaneous with his jail sentence. In the third case, he was sentenced to two years of probation running after his other sentences for stalking.
For his most serious case, Zang pleaded guilty Feb. 16 to aggravated assault, and in exchange the robbery and other charges were dropped as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. Police said that he showed up at a Greenview Gardens apartment March 7, 2020, and stole — at gunpoint — prescription medication and clothing belonging to a 21-year-old man who was there. No one was injured.
Butler police arrested Zang after he allegedly appeared March 7 at a Greenview Gardens apartment, wearing a red bandanna over his face and brandishing a .22-caliber revolver. He demanded the clothing and other items belonging to the Butler man who answered the door, according to court documents.
Police were called and officers saw a man, later identified as Zang, run up a set of stairs in a common hallway at the apartment complex. He was detained.
Under a rug next to him, police said, officers found a .22-caliber revolver that was loaded, a red bandanna, clothing and medication with the victim's name on it.
In the trespassing case, police said he broke into the mobile home through a dog door March 1, 2020.
Zang's sister appeared in court Thursday and made a statement to Shaffer before the sentencings.
She explained that as children they had normal lives until their mother started dating a man who abused the two of them mentally and physically.
As the older sibling, she said she was able to handle the situation better than her brother. Now married with children, Kubrt said that Zang looked up to her husband as a father figure and her children “adored” Zang.
She said that at the time of Zang's trespassing, he was living with her family.
“He was under the influence of other people,” she said. “It was difficult and we didn't know it was him.”
But, she continued, “I forgive him.”
She said that they look forward to him getting out of jail because they want him back.
“Ian is a very good kid. We both had it hard growing up,” she said. “He has a good heart.”
For the stalking case, Zang was arrested Sept. 12 on charges that he pulled his 19-year-old girlfriend out of the Rite-Aid store at Point Plaza and stole her telephone during a domestic dispute. The woman was not injured.
Zang was arraigned for stalking, theft, receiving stolen property, simple assault and harassment. But as part of the plea deal, all of the other charges beside stalking were dropped.
