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A former Pittsburgh police zone commander is charged with spying multiple times on several of his officers, secretly recording up to 75 hours of their conversations. Matthew Lackner, 50, of Mt. Lebanon, was charged Friday by Allegheny County Police with four counts of illegal use of wired or oral communications,
A former Pittsburgh police zone commander who retired amid investigations into whether he wiretapped fellow officers will receive a monthly pension of nearly $6,500 unless he’s convicted on criminal charges, police officials said Thursday. The board of managers of Pittsburgh Policemen’s Relief and Pension Fund voted unanimously Thursday to pay
Editor’s note: Here is the Tribune-Review’s original report from Oct. 28, 2019: The giant hole in 10th Street between Penn and Liberty in Downtown Pittsburgh doesn’t have a bus in it any more. Crews were able to use a crane to remove the bus shortly after 9:30 p.m., according to
Jun. 2—Pittsburgh City Council members gave preliminary approval Wednesday for the police department to buy two small robots equipped with cameras. But they did so only after discussion among members and asking the police department's Special Deployment Cmdr. Ed Trapp about how the robots will be used. "It's just distressing to a lot of the populations that we'd be talking about robots and ...
ReconRobotics TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Pittsburgh City Council members gave preliminary approval Wednesday for the police department to buy two small robots equipped with cameras. But they did so only after discussion among members and asking the police department’s Special Deployment Cmdr. Ed Trapp about how the robots will be used. “It’s just distressing to a lot of the populations that we’d be talking about robots and policing in the same sentence,” Councilwoman Deb Gross said. “We...