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A suspected cross-country supplier of counterfeit pills containing deadly opioid fentanyl was jailed Friday in the largest bust of its kind in Westmoreland County, according to court papers. Police said they confiscated from an East Huntingdon home 7,400 pills designed to look like legitimate OxyContin but lab testing showed they

Acting on a tip, Westmoreland County Drug Task Force officers and the state Attorney General’s office arrested a couple accused of possessing large quantities of suspected crack cocaine and heroin inside a Unity hotel room, according to court documents. Franklin T. Ellis II, 37, of West Homestead, and Iyeashia C.

The calls seemed so real. It played on their emotions — relatives were in jail and needed cash to post bond. But two Westmoreland County women were too wise and didn’t fall for the trick. Both received similar phone calls this week as state police warn residents of numerous reports

A Penn Township man is accused of posting on his Facebook page a photograph of himself engaged in a sex act with a woman who did not consent to the image being taken, according to court papers. Shawn Gootz, 42, is charged with obscene materials, unlawful dissemination of an intimate

The mother of a 25-year-old man arrested in a failed robbery of a Penn Township convenience store Wednesday told investigators she thought it was “weird” when he asked for a covid-19 mask before entering the store. After putting on the mask, the woman’s son, Jaime T. Shipley, exited his mother’s

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. A Beaver County man is in the Westmoreland County Prison without bond after he was arrested on charges of breaking into a Penn Township home early Friday to obtain the keys to steal an SUV, according to court documents. Nicholas J. Wooddell, 30, of Aliquippa, was arraigned on charges of burglary, criminal trespass, and driving on a DUI suspended license and two counts each of th...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Penn Township police this week charged a McKeesport man with posting partially nude photographs of woman on social media. Det. Brad Buchsbaum charged Shawn Himich Jr., 24, with 12 counts each of dissemination of intimate materials and illegally transmitting obscene and sexual materials. Buchsbaum said in court documents the woman, who lives in the township, reported that she had...