LEWISTOWN – The statewide Law Enforcement Treatment Initiative is set to expand to Mifflin County.
During a Lewistown Borough Council meeting held Monday evening, Police Chief David Clemens said he is starting to work on getting the program up and running.
LETI is a collaboration between local law enforcement and the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office. According to a press release from the office, citizens may use sheriffs, probation officers and parole officers as a resource to contact treatment partners without the threat of arrest.
Clemens said LETI is intended to address mental health and drug issues in the community.
Under LETI, county law enforcement agencies open their station doors to those suffering from drug addiction, help identify treatment for those who seek it, assist with transportation to facilities and study outcomes, the release states.
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The Washington County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday afternoon the arrest of a suspect in the series of bomb and active shooter threats in southeast Ohio schools over the last six days.
Nicholas John Frances Hall, 18, of 1385 Washington Road, Thomson, Ga., was arrested in McDuffie County, Ga., by the McDuffie County Sheriff’s Office.
Washington County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Mark Warden announced the arrest after a multi-agency investigation Tuesday.
Hall, according to FBI records, has a past criminal charge out of Lee County, Fla., for a first-degree misdemeanor of battery from March of 2018.
According to the affidavit submitted to Marietta Municipal Court by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday for a warrant uploaded to the National Crime Information Center, Hall allegedly confessed to a deputy sheriff of the Georgia agency that “he made the bomb threats to get his girlfriend out of school.”
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Unions, Pa. AG Tell High Court To Reject Review Of Fees Suit
Law360 (May 11, 2021, 4:15 PM EDT) Several unions and the Pennsylvania Attorney General s Office have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a case seeking retroactive repayment of fair share fees collected before the justices struck down such fees in 2018, arguing that the unions had been following state law and the legal precedent at the time.
In briefs opposing public employees request for an appeal, the attorney general, Service Employees International Union Local 668, Pa. State Education Association, National Education Association and Chestnut Ridge Education Association told the justices Monday that district and circuit courts around the nation have held that parties collecting fair share fees prior.
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While executing multiple search warrants throughout Tyrone Borough, law enforcement agencies located nearly $7,000 worth of illicit drugs, a loaded handgun and about $2,650 in cash, Tyrone Borough police reported.
Tyrone resident Richard A. Ewing, 42, was taken into custody as a result of the operation, a Blair County Drug Task Force news release stated.
Police approached Ewing after he exited his home about 5 p.m. Wednesday while agents from the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office conducted a warranted search of Ewing’s residence on the 1300 block of Blair Avenue, court documents stated.
While searching Ewing’s person, police discovered he was carrying a bag, which contained 2 ounces of methamphetamine, $330 in cash, a bag containing psilocybin mushrooms and a loaded handgun, a criminal complaint stated. Ewing’s prior criminal record prohibits him from possessing a firearm in Pennsylvania, according to court documents.
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The plea agreement reached between Salsman and the Pennsylvania Attorney General s Office also requires Salsman to resign from his elected position, effective immediately.
Salsman initially faced multiple counts of sexual assault, indecent assault, intimidation of a witness or victim, obstruction of justice, and prostitution resulting from complaints filed by five female clients of his former law practice.
He pleaded guilty Friday to charges of promoting prostitution, a felony, intimidation of victims, and obstruction of justice, both misdemeanors. Chad Salsman used his position as a private attorney, and then as the district attorney, to intimidate and silence his victims and interfere with our investigation, state Attorney General Todd Shapiro said following the plea. Today is a powerful reminder that no one is above the law.