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U.S. Marshals on Wednesday arrested a man wanted on charges of selling drugs that resulted in an overdose death in Washington County, officials said.
Sherman Springer, known as “Detroit Shawn,” 48, had been on the run as a fugitive for more than seven months, since he was charged in late June in connection to the death of another person on April 15 in the city of Washington, court records show. He now is being held on $150,000 bail at Washington County Prison.
Officials did not disclose the name of the person who died after taking narcotics sold by Springer.
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A faculty-elected oversight body recommends that Duquesne University President Ken Gormley rehire Gary Shank, the education professor fired for using a racial slur during a virtual lecture on race and language in September.
“While Dr. Shank’s use of the N-word was misguided, it was not malicious,” concludes a report by the University Grievance Committee for Faculty, which reviewed Shank’s case, including by conducting interviews and holding a hearing. “Therefore, while sanction of Dr. Shank’s behavior is warranted, it does not reach the level requiring dismissal.”
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A Washington County man has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison for selling heroin and carrying a gun as a felon, federal prosecutors said.
Matthew Curtis McCombs, 34, who previously lived in the city of Washington, pleaded guilty in November 2019 to possessing with the intent to sell heroin and illegally carrying guns and ammunition, U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady said.
Upon release from his 112-month sentence, McCombs must spend three years on probation, according to the order by U.S. District Judge David Cercone.
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A Butler County man has been sentenced to time served and three years of probation for his role in a gang-related conspiracy to sell cocaine and heroin, federal prosecutors said.
Ray Chrzanowski, 53, who previously had ties to Portersville and Zelienople, was nabbed as part of an FBI investigation into the Greenway Boy Killas street gang in Pittsburgh’s West End.
The wiretap investigation revealed that, in November 2017 through June 2018, Chrzanowski and his co-conspirators cooked powder cocaine into crack cocaine and conspired to distribute quantities of crack cocaine and heroin.
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have been vaccinated? In Pennsylvania, nearly 520,000 people — mostly health care workers — had received at least one vaccine dose as of Saturday. Of those people, 106,000 are fully vaccinated, state data show. However, those figures don’t include long-term care residents and staff being vaccinated via