‘Traffic stop’ ends with a marriage proposal in Canonsburg
As fellow officers look on, Canonsburg Officer Eric Cersosimo gives Angela Crump a reassuring hug with ring in hand as he prepares to offer his marriage proposal Friday on East Pike Street.
Canonsburg Officer Louis Bailey makes the initial traffic stop that gets Angela Crump’s attention so that fellow officer Eric Cersosimo can make his proposal Friday on Pike Street in Canonsburg.
Canonsburg Officer Eric Cersosimo proposes to Angela Crump on East Pike Street Friday.
Angela Crump of Bethel Park responds with a resounding “yes” to Officer Eric Cersosimo’s proposal of marriage Friday. Fellow Canonsburg officers assisted in getting Crump’s attention by stopping her on Pike Street as she was driving to deliver lunch to Cersosimo.
Angela Crump gets back the driver’s license and insurance papers she handed over when Canonsburg officers initially stopped her on Pike Street so that Officer Eric Cersosimo, right, could make his proposal of marriage Friday.
Angela Crump of Bethel Park proudly displays the engagement ring she just received from Canonsburg police Officer Eric Cersosimo. The couple met while in college at West Liberty and have been dating for three and a half years. Cersosimo’s fellow officers stopped Crump while she was on her way to deliver lunch to him Friday so that he could make his proposal on Pike Street.
An excited Angela Crump displays the engagement ring that she now wears after accepting Officer Eric Cersosimo’s marriage proposal. Cersosimo’s fellow officers stopped her on Pike Street in Canonsburg as she was on her way to deliver Cersosimo’s lunch.
Angela Crump of Bethel Park and Canonsburg police Officer Eric Cersosimo embrace after Angela said “yes” to Cersosimo’s proposal of marriage Friday. His fellow officers stopped her on her way to deliver his lunch in order to get her attention for the proposal on Pike Street.
Angela Crump thought she was going to Canonsburg to drop off something her boyfriend had left at home Friday morning.
Instead, she got what likely was the shock of her life when she was not only pulled over by police but received a marriage proposal from her boyfriend of three and a half years.
Her boyfriend, now fiancé, Eric Cersosimo, enlisted the assistance of fellow police officers Lou Bailey and Brian DaPra to pull over Crump as she drove on East Pike Street. As they were getting her out of her vehicle, Cersosimo came up from behind, got down on one knee and proposed to her.
“She had no idea,” said Cersosimo, who has been a part-time Canonsburg police officer since September. He also works for the Stowe Township and McKees Rocks police departments.
Cersosimo said he wanted to do something original.
“No one else can do this unless you are in law enforcement,” said the 24-year-old officer. “I thought this would be a great way for her to be surprised and shocked all at once.”
The two met while going to school at West Liberty University in West Liberty, W.Va.
Cersosimo said the two had been talking about getting married but had not made definite plans. He and his 25-year-old fiancée have had a long-distance relationship recently because she is working as a speech pathologist in Florida.
Cersosimo said no date has been set for the wedding.