Popular Pittsburgh Restaurant Owner Charged With Sexual Assault

PITTSBURGH, PA - The owner of a popular Regent Square restaurant has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a South Side woman this week after breaking into her home.

Adnan Hilton Pehlivan is charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse of an unconscious person, burglary, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault and simple assault, according to online court records.

Pehlivan, 46, of Swissvale, owns Istanbul Sofra on Braddock Avenue. He purchased Ryan’s Pub next door last year and has been previewing on Facebook the imminent opening of the remodeled space as Hilton’s Lounge.

A criminal complaint states that Pehlivan bought the alleged victim and her friends drinks at Kopy’s bar on the South Side Monday evening. She did not provide Pehlivan with her address or phone number.

According to the complaint, the alleged victim was sleeping in her South Side residence later that night when she awoke to find the man from the bar sexually assaulting her. She began fighting him and he punched her to escape, only to momentarily return to retrieve a suit jacket that he had left.

Police later found that a window at the residence had been forced open.

Photo via Allegheny County Jail.