September 16, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
Eighteen people face charges and several have been jailed following a recently completed “Summer Suppression” initiative across several Mon-Yough communities, including McKeesport, state Attorney General Dave Sunday announced Tuesday.
At a press conference Tuesday in Pittsburgh, Sunday said the arrests came following a months-long program designed to get drugs and illegal weapons out of neighborhoods in the city as well as Clairton, Jefferson Hills and West Mifflin.
Sunday said that investigators seized 17 weapons, along with $40,000 worth of cocaine and quantities of heroin, fentanyl and marijuana.
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September 02, 2025 |
By Tom Leturgey | Posted in: Crime and Police News, Duquesne News
A juvenile is in custody after carrying a firearm outside of Duquesne City School around dismissal on Tuesday.
Duquesne assistant police Chief Karra Vance told city officials about the incident at Tuesday night’s council meeting.
Speaking via Zoom, Vance said school personnel spotted the unidentified male on security cameras walking up and down the street outside the school, just before students were to be let out around 3 p.m.
School security and city police arrived and questioned the suspect. He is described by sources as a 13-year-old former student at Duquesne who now lives in West Mifflin.
“It could have been a bad situation,” said Duquesne police Chief Tom Shaw after the general meeting. “None of the kids were in immediate danger.”
He also noted that on the heels of a shooting at a Catholic church in Minnesota last week, “this isn’t a Duquesne thing. It’s everywhere.”
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August 04, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A suspect in a domestic dispute was hospitalized after being shot early Monday morning.
Police said the suspect, whose name was not released, was trying to escape from officers by forcing his way into another home when the occupant of that apartment shot him.
Allegheny County police said McKeesport officers were called to a home in the 2300 block of Highland Avenue at 1:31 a.m. after a woman said she had been assaulted by her boyfriend.
Police found the victim about one block away with visible physical injuries from the assault, according to a report.
Officers responded to the home and attempted to take the boyfriend into custody, Allegheny County police said, but the man refused to leave the home. As officers entered the residence, the suspect fled through a back window and attempted to escape by forcing his way into a neighboring apartment, according to police.
The occupant of that apartment then shot him, Allegheny County police said. The suspect was taken to the hospital in critical condition, police said.
Allegheny County homicide detectives were called to the scene and are leading the investigation, according to a prepared release. No further information was released Monday morning.
July 31, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A woman was hospitalized Thursday morning after being shot inside a home on Grandview Avenue, Allegheny County police said.
The suspected gunman then took his own life, police said.
The Allegheny County medical examiner’s office said Carlos Watts, 50, was pronounced dead just after 12 midnight inside the home in the 2300 block of Grandview.
In a press release, police said first-responders were called to the home at 12:30 a.m. and found the unidentified victim along with Watts, both suffering from gunshot wounds.
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July 26, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News, East McKeesport News
One driver is dead and another was hospitalized following a two-car crash in East McKeesport on Friday night.
Allegheny County police said two vehicles collided just before 7 p.m. on Fifth Avenue between East McKeesport and Wilmerding.
The crash occurred on a curving stretch of road near the Penn Avenue cut-off to South Wilmerding.
At least one driver was entrapped and had to be freed from the wreckage by firefighters and paramedics, emergency personnel said.
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July 26, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
Friends of a Westmoreland County woman who died after being struck by a tree branch in Renziehausen Park have begun a fundraiser to offset medical and funeral expenses.
Gendie N. Miller, 49, of Ligonier died at AHN Forbes Hospital in Monroeville on Thursday night, about an hour after the accident, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said.
Witnesses said Miller was a spectator at a softball game when she was struck by a falling tree branch and knocked to the ground.
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June 26, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A former McKeesport police detective has pleaded guilty to diverting more than $1 million in dues and other funding from a Fraternal Order of Police lodge to support his now-closed bar and restaurant.
Following a negotiated plea agreement with the Allegheny County District Attorney’s office, Joseph A. Osinski, 56, of Haler Heights entered pleas of guilty on Tuesday on charges of theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception, receiving stolen property and dealing in the proceeds of unlawful activities.
Charges of access device fraud, misapplication of entrusted property and an additional account of theft by unlawful taking were withdrawn. Sentencing before Allegheny County Common Pleas Court Judge Jill Rangos is scheduled for Sept. 18.
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June 26, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News, White Oak News
A Port Vue man was killed Wednesday in a motorcycle accident in White Oak, emergency personnel said.
Jake Wilson, 23, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash in the 1200 block of Long Run Road (Route 48) just after 1 a.m. Wednesday, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said.
Allegheny County police said 9-1-1 dispatchers received a call at 1:18 a.m. that a man was lying in the road just south of Lincoln Way. First responders found the victim, later identified as Wilson, dead at the scene.
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June 17, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
An unidentified teen-ager is in critical condition after being struck by a car Tuesday night on Lysle Boulevard, Downtown.
Allegheny County police said the victim was attempting to cross the boulevard near the Coursin Street intersection in front of a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus when he was struck by a car traveling in the left lane.
The accident happened just before 7 p.m., police said. The driver of the car remained at the scene and was questioned by police. The victim, 15, was taken to the hospital by ambulance, emergency personnel said.
The Allegheny County homicide and collision reconstruction team is investigating, police said. Anyone with information concerning this incident is asked to call the County Police tip line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.
June 17, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News, Duquesne News
An anonymous call to a police tip line led to the arrest of a Duquesne man in connection with a fatal shooting in a local bar on Friday night.
Marvin P. Harpool, 51, is being held in the Allegheny County Jail without bond pending a preliminary hearing June 27 after Allegheny County police charged him with shooting to death Tywone McClain, 26, of Duquesne inside a club in the 700 block of Grant Avenue.
According to a criminal complaint filed in Allegheny County night court, just after 11:30 p.m. Friday, McClain was arguing with another bar patron when a man identified by police as Harpool allegedly intervened.
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