January 23, 2023 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
McKeesport Area High School was put on lockdown Monday morning after a plastic BB gun was discovered in a student’s backpack.
City police Chief Adam Alfer said the investigation is ongoing and that charges had not been filed. The student involved is 16 years old and attends the high school, he said.
Tube City Almanac does not identify suspects who are charged as juveniles.
Alfer said officers from McKeesport, White Oak and Penn State Greater Allegheny were dispatched after Allegheny County 9-1-1 received a report that a handgun had been spotted in a student’s belongings.
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January 06, 2023 |
By Tom Leturgey | Posted in: Crime and Police News, Duquesne News
For months, Tom Shaw has been Duquesne Police Department’s “acting” police chief. That changed Tuesday night as the Mayor Scott Adams and city council removed the interim title from his resume.
By a 4-0 vote, council this week named Shaw the permanent police chief. Councilman Tim Caldwell was absent. Shaw also was unable to attend the meeting, because he was away on business, Adams said.
Council also named Duquesne police Lt. Karra Vance assistant police chief. Vance served as acting police chief after former police Chief Thomas Dunlevy was placed on leave in 2021. Dunlevy was fired by city council on Dec. 6.
Both appointments took effect Wednesday.
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January 05, 2023 |
By Jason Togyer | Posted in: Crime and Police News, McKeesport and Region News
A local business owner who is challenging McKeesport Mayor Michael Cherepko in this year’s election has been arrested by state drug enforcement agents and accused of being part of a cocaine trafficking ring allegedly led by his campaign manager.
Corry J. Sanders, 52, who obtained a pardon for a previous drug offense through the efforts of now-U.S. Sen. John Fetterman and other elected officials, is charged by the state attorney general’s office with two counts each of drug possession, possession with intent to deliver and delivery.
The arrest — originally reported by Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV on New Year’s Eve — was confirmed Thursday afternoon by the attorney general’s office.
Investigators allege that Sanders sold cocaine to a confidential informant on two separate occasions, including at his Locust Street barbershop, Kool Kutz, in November 2022.
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January 03, 2023 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A Duquesne man accused of killing the police chief of a small Allegheny Valley borough and wounding another police officer died following a confrontation Monday afternoon in the city of Pittsburgh.
Allegheny County police said Aaron Lamont Swan Jr., 28, formerly of Pittsburgh’s Lincoln-Lemington neighborhood, died after exchanging gunfire with several officers in a wooded area off of Columbiana Street in the Homewood-Brushton section of Pittsburgh.
Swan is suspected of killing Brackenridge police Chief Justin McIntire and wounding a Tarentum police officer following a foot chase in Brackenridge’s business district on Monday afternoon.
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December 14, 2022 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
McKeesport Area High School is offering counseling and support to students following a shooting outside of a convenience store that killed one 16-year-old and sent another teen-ager to the hospital.
The Allegheny County medical examiner’s office said Chance Naylor, 16, died Tuesday afternoon in the emergency room of UPMC McKeesport hospital following the incident on Versailles Avenue.
Naylor’s death has been ruled a homicide.
The other victim is reportedly in critical condition at a hospital.
Allegheny County police said the shooting happened at around 3:30 p.m. near the corner of Versailles and Grandview avenues. The shooter has not been publicly identified by police.
The school district announced that both the high school and East End Academy would have virtual classes Wednesday. Both of the victims were students at the high school, the district said.
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November 29, 2022 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A Penn Hills man is being held in the Allegheny County Jail without bail in connection with a shooting Nov. 7 on Beacon Street in the city that sent the 45-year-old victim in the hospital in critical condition.
Quenton Hughes, 40, is charged by Allegheny County police with attempted homicide, aggravated assault and unlawful possession of a firearm. He faces a preliminary hearing Dec. 12 before Magisterial District Judge Kim Berkeley Clark in Pittsburgh.
Hughes surrendered to sheriff’s deputies without incident on Monday, police said.
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November 17, 2022 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A city man who died in a car crash on Pittsburgh’s South Side was not being pursued by McKeesport police at the time of the collision, McKeesport’s chief said.
McKeesport police Chief Adam Alfer said Thursday a city officer attempted to stop the vehicle on Wednesday night near the intersection of Evans and Versailles avenues, but stopped pursuing the vehicle when it crossed the McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge and exited onto Route 837.
A short time later, Alfer said, McKeesport police learned the car had been involved in a crash on Pittsburgh’s South Side.
Pittsburgh police are investigating the collision near the intersection of East Carson Street and South 33rd Street, which sent four people to area hospitals.
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November 14, 2022 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A Wilmerding man is being held in the Allegheny County Jail after McKeesport police said he forcibly took back a car that had been repossessed.
Raymont T. Dallas, 25, is accused of assaulting an employee of American Recovery Corp. on Lysle Boulevard, taking a Ford Mustang he had previously owned, and crashing through a fence into traffic, nearly striking several other vehicles.
A foot chase later ensued on the campus of McKeesport Area High School, police said, scattering students before McKeesport and White Oak police and state investigators forcibly took Dallas into custody. Two police officers were injured, one seriously, according to a report.
Dallas is being held without bail pending a preliminary hearing Nov. 21 before Magisterial District Judge Eugene Riazzi.
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October 25, 2022 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Crime and Police News, Duquesne News
Allegheny County police are investigating the death of a teen-ager who was found slumped over the wheel of a car on Tuesday morning in Duquesne.
Durobb Johnson, 18, was pronounced dead at the scene in the 900 block of High Street of apparent gunshot wounds, said a spokesperson for the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office.
In a prepared statement, county homicide detectives said a caller to 9-1-1 just before 6 a.m. reported the incident. Police are investigating but have released no other details. Anyone with information concerning the incident is being asked to call the county police tip line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.
October 17, 2022 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A Jefferson Hills woman faces formal arraignment Nov. 3 in connection with a three-car accident that sent three people to area hospitals.
Nicole A. Diggs, 22, is charged by McKeesport police with causing an accident involving death or injury and driving without a license. She is free on her own recognizance pending her appearance in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court.
McKeesport police said Diggs was the driver of a 2004 Mercury sedan that collided with two other vehicles just after 2:30 p.m. March 23 on East Fifth Avenue, near McKeesport & Versailles Cemetery.
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