Eastern Berks Regional police say late Tuesday or early Wednesday vandals splattered black paint across a 2-story mural called "Boyertown is No Place for Hate."
Jesus Cruz, 20, of Boyertown, was charged with trafficking heroin/fentanyl that resulted in death.
Cruz, who is in Berks County Prison, had been charged in December with possession and sale of heroin, carrying a firearm without a license and criminal use of a communications device in relation to the incident.
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After detention in the Berks County Sheriffâs Department central processing center, Cruz was arraigned Feb. 23 before District Judge Michael G. Hartman. The amount of his bail was not available.
Keyaira Nunez-Trego, 28, described in court documents as Cruzâs girlfriend, was charged with possession of illegal drugs with intent to deliver and criminal conspiracy. She is expected to turn herself in to authorities.
A trash truck barreled through a stop sign while coming down a hill in Bechtelsville before dawn Monday, then traveling through a yard and crashing into a wooden shed, injuring the driver, Eastern Berks Regional police said.
The crash happened shortly before 6 a.m. at East Main and Franklin streets. Traffic was diverted off East Main Street for about five hours until a crew from Berks-Mont Towing could remove the truck.
Eastern Berks police said the Whitetail Disposal Inc. truck driven by Shaun Campbell, 35, address unavailable, was eastbound on Franklin, police said. The truck didnât stop at the intersection with East Main and continued across that street into a yard before slamming into the shed, demolishing it, police said.