October 17, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A Duquesne Avenue man accused of setting fire to a home was allegedly targeting two people who owed him money for drugs, according to police — but those people were no longer living there.
Arthur “Bibbler” Franklin III, 32, also known as “Red,” is being held in the Allegheny County Jail without bond after a magisterial district judge said he represents a danger to the community. He faces a preliminary hearing Monday before Magisterial District Judge Eugene Riazzi.
Franklin was apprehended Oct. 9 in the city’s Downtown area and now faces additional narcotics charges in connection with that arrest, according to court records.
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October 12, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
(This is a developing story and will be updated.)
A local man is dead following a shooting Sunday afternoon in White Oak.
Allegheny County homicide detectives and White Oak police were on the scene gathering evidence following the 2:18 p.m. incident at the intersection of Route 48 and Lincoln Way.
Witnesses said the victim, identified by the Allegheny County medical examiner’s office as Kenneth Hayman, 33, of Liberty Borough was on a motorcycle on Route 48 when a dark-colored Chevrolet Silverado approached and two men armed with rifles opened fire.
Shoppers at nearby Rainbow Village Shopping Center and Oak Park Mall described hearing multiple, rapid shots that sounded “like fireworks.”
The vehicle then fled on Lincoln Way, witnesses said.
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October 07, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A crash Tuesday morning in the city’s 10th Ward sent two people to area hospitals.
Allegheny County police said the wreck occurred just after 9:30 a.m. on West Fifth Avenue between Ramp No. 2 and the Mansfield Bridge.
Police said their preliminary investigation indicates that a car driven by an unidentified male driver went out of control and crossed into the opposing lane of travel, sliding sideways.
The car was then struck by another vehicle, traveling in the opposite direction, driven by an unidentified woman, police said.
The male was taken to the hospital in critical condition and the woman was in stable condition, police said.
The Allegheny County Police Department’s collision reconstruction unit is investigating. Anyone who may have witnessed the accident is asked to call the county police tip line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS. Callers may remain anonymous.
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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