Arrest made in fatal overdose of standout Pa. wrestler, DA says
Updated Feb 09, 2021;
Posted Feb 09, 2021
Pen Argyl s Mikey Racciato leaps into the arms of assistant coach Jason Grim after winning his second PIAA 2A state championship.
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Christopher Ferrante, 41, faces drug delivery resulting in death and related charges stemming from Racciato’s death.
Northampton County prosecutors allege Ferrante sold Racciato fentanyl twice the night he died.
After the first sale, Racciato overdosed and was taken to the hospital. Ferrante picked up Racciato from the hospital, and sold him more fentanyl, which would ultimately kill him, prosecutors said.
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ALLENTOWN – Numerous counts have been dismissed against municipal and state authorities in the false arrest case of a New Jersey man apprehended through a sting operation for allegedly soliciting sex with who he believed was a 14-year-old girl.
Robert Andrew Saultz of Phillipsburg, N.J., first filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Dec. 9, 2019 versus state Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office, Special Agent Eric Barlow of the AG’s Office, the City of Bethlehem, its mayor Robert Donchez, its chief of police Mark DiLuzio and Bethlehem Police Department members Sgt. Michael Leaser, Sgt. John Doe and Officer Dawn Heuser, all of Bethlehem.
Man holds Glock to girlfriend’s head and threatens to shoot, police say
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
A 44-year-old Allen Township man held a gun to his girlfriend’s head early Tuesday morning and threatened to shoot, Pennsylvania State Police report.
When police arrived at the home in the 1000 block of Hogan Way following the 12:37 a.m. dispatch, Christopher Michael Everly was outside and the woman inside, police said in court papers.
The woman told a trooper that during an “altercation” Eberly “pulled out a gun . held it to her left temple and threatened to pull the trigger,” police said.
She said “she had never been so scared and that she thought she was going to die,” court papers say.
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A Lehigh Valley man was working as a high school teacher when he had sex with a 17-year-old student numerous times over the course of more than a year, state police charged.
Eric Michael Hahn, of South Whitehall Township, engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl while working as a teacher at Bangor Area High School starting in October 2019, state police said.
Hahn, 38, engaged in the activity both in and outside of school, police said.
Hahn was charged Thursday with intercourse/sexual contact with a student and corruption of minors, both third-degree felonies.
He was being held at Northampton County Prison on $200,000 bail, police said.
College Hill Easton man faces more than 20 child pornography counts
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
Posted Jan 20, 2021
James Allen Moessinger, 44, of Easton s College Hill, faces more than 20 child porn charges, court records show.Tony Rhodin | For lehighvalleylive.com
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A 44-year-old Easton man was arrested Wednesday morning at his College Hill home on child pornography charges, court records show.
The investigation by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office’s Child Predator begin in June with a tip from Snapchat to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that someone was uploading images of child porn to the social media site, court papers say.