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Working on a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, state police troopers seized a Loyalhanna Township man’s cell phone and arrested him Monday on child pornography charges, according to court records.
John E. Zanandrea, 56, was arraigned on charges of criminal use of a communication facility, disseminating images of children involved in sex acts and possession of child pornography filed by the state police specialized Southwest Computer Crime Task Force in Indiana.
Trooper Marcus Lantzy reported in court documents that state police recently received a tip from the Alexandria, Va.-based center that a telephone number based in western Pennsylvania had been downloading “multiple files of child pornography.”
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A Penn Hills man will serve up to 23 months in jail for his role in injuries sustained by a 2-year-old girl who police said still “looked like a zombie” days after a December 2017 incident in an Allegheny Township home.
James Michael Bucci, 35, pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony count of child endangerment and misdemeanor charges of simple assault and reckless endangerment. Prosecutors dismissed two felony counts of aggravated assault of children.
According to court records, the child sustained multiple head injuries while in Bucci’s care. Bucci claimed the child suffered head injuries when she fell off a couch, tripped over his leg and hit her head on the floor, but told police he could not account for other facial injuries.
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A Bell woman was jailed Monday after state police said they found two children outside her home this month in cold weather.
Police said Melissa Ann Chaya, 41, reportedly ingested prescription medication and yelled at the children, who fled outside to hide. She is charged with two felony counts of child endangerment.
Troopers were called to her Route 819 home just after 9 a.m. Jan. 13 and found the children, who were wearing coats but were cold, according to court papers. Police said the temperature was in the 30s at the time.
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A man who police accuse of dealing crack and cocaine out of a Jeannette home posted $50,000 bond Monday, according to online court records.
Michael Larrell Jackson, 29, of Jeannette, was arrested Friday on drug and related charges after, police say, they made an undercover drug purchase at a North Eighth Street apartment.
City police and agents from the state attorney general’s office worked around 3 p.m. with a confidential informant to make a purchase from Jackson, according to court papers. The drugs brought back to investigators tested positive for cocaine, according to court papers.
Courtesy of Westmoreland County
Letresse Tareke Williams faces homicide and attempted homicide charges in connection with separate incidents in New Kensington.
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New Kensington police said DNA test results led them to file additional gun and drug charges against a city man accused of fatally shooting an Arnold man last January and firing shots at four people the month before that.
The new charges against Letresse Tareke Williams, 30, stem from his Feb. 4arrest at a Kenneth Avenue home by the Western Pennsylvania U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force. He has been in Westmoreland County Prison since then.