A week after inmates were moved into the new Fayette County jail, the county prison board discussed potentially charging a per-day fee over the term of their stay in the facility. Board members Controller Robb Rhodes and Sheriff Jim Custer said Westmoreland County Prison charges a $10 per-day fee that goes toward facility management costs. […]
A man who fled from state police earlier this month, prompting a lockdown at Seton Hill University, was arrested last week at a junkyard hiding underneath a trap door, according to Chief Deputy Jennifer Shipley of the Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Office. Troopers have been searching for Joseph Alan Pees, 31,
A Wilmerding man is behind bars after police said he sold an undercover officer five bricks of heroin/fentanyl Tuesday in North Huntingdon. Township police said Quadrikis A. Phillips-Turner, 30, exchanged the drugs for $940 at a Mills Drive location. He is charged with criminal use of a communication facility and