A Westmoreland County Jail inmate is accused of assaulting a corrections officer and injuring him by throwing a computer tablet device at him. Nathan Baron, 42, is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and institutional vandalism. A Florida native, his last known address was in Carson, Allegheny County. According to
A New Kensington man awaiting trial on charges of ramming a car with two young children inside is now accused of making more than 200 calls from the county jail to the woman driving that car, asking her not to testify against him, according to county detectives. Jamar L. Freshley,
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The man on trial for the attempted homicide of a man in Arnold three years ago unsuccessfully tried to bribe his accuser into blaming another person for the shooting, a detective testified Thursday.
Westmoreland County Detective James Williams also told a Westmoreland County jury that Nicholas Haynes tried to convince a jail inmate to claim the shooting victim recanted identifying Haynes as of his attacker.
Williams testifed that two handwritten letters sent to inmates at the county jail in 2019 and 2020 were traced back to Haynes, the man on trial for the April 12, 2018 shooting of Malcolm Dunem in Arnold.