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A suspected cross-country supplier of counterfeit pills containing deadly opioid fentanyl was jailed Friday in the largest bust of its kind in Westmoreland County, according to court papers. Police said they confiscated from an East Huntingdon home 7,400 pills designed to look like legitimate OxyContin but lab testing showed they ....
Acting on a tip, Westmoreland County Drug Task Force officers and the state Attorney General’s office arrested a couple accused of possessing large quantities of suspected crack cocaine and heroin inside a Unity hotel room, according to court documents. Franklin T. Ellis II, 37, of West Homestead, and Iyeashia C. ....
The calls seemed so real. It played on their emotions — relatives were in jail and needed cash to post bond. But two Westmoreland County women were too wise and didn’t fall for the trick. Both received similar phone calls this week as state police warn residents of numerous reports ....
A Penn Township man is accused of posting on his Facebook page a photograph of himself engaged in a sex act with a woman who did not consent to the image being taken, according to court papers. Shawn Gootz, 42, is charged with obscene materials, unlawful dissemination of an intimate ....
The mother of a 25-year-old man arrested in a failed robbery of a Penn Township convenience store Wednesday told investigators she thought it was “weird” when he asked for a covid-19 mask before entering the store. After putting on the mask, the woman’s son, Jaime T. Shipley, exited his mother’s ....