JEANNETTE (KDKA) – Louis Bevalaqua, 18, of Jeannette is known as “Little Louie.”

But Jack Cecconello has another term for him.

“He’s a punk,” he said.

Cecconello’s low regard for Bevalaqua comes after the teen ran the 60-year-old down while on his mini-motorcycle.

“He came whipping it at me and hit me,” he said.

Cecconello suffered knee and elbow injuries after being taken down. It all happened on Cassatt Avenue.

“He’s driving nuts and erratic,” said Darilyn Stoves of Jeannette. “He was waiting for targets, he was waiting for someone to try to approach him.”

“I don’t know what his problem was or why he was coming after us,” added Stoves.

Witnesses say if he couldn’t hit you with the dirt bike, Bevalaqua would hit you with something else.

“He spit in my face numerous times,” said Cecconello.

Jeannette Police showed up and grabbed Bevalaqua, who battled the officers, even trying to kick a police car’s rear window out.

But Bevalaqua wasn’t done. When he got to the Jeannette police station, he tried to slam a finger-print machine into one of the officer’s heads.

However, being only 5 feet 4 inches tall and 115 pounds, Bevalaqua was put in a cell, but not before he injured an officer by mule kicking a cell door into the officer’s legs.

“He was drunk for one to begin with and there was other drugs,” said one resident. “Had to be.”

Bevalaqua purports to be a rapper, but his recording career is on hold.

He’s in the Westmoreland County jail on a $50,000 straight cash bond. He faces multiple charges, including felony aggravated assault and public drunkenness.

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