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Tribune-Review
March 26, 2018
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office reported a 27-year-old man who was critically injured after being dragged by a vehicle his girlfriend was driving Friday in Cranberry Township has died. The office ruled the death of Ryan Minett of New Brighton a homicide. He died Saturday at UPMCÃâà...
Tribune-Review
March 26, 2018
Dominic Anicola, 57, is charged with homicide in connection with Smith's death and is being held at the Allegheny County Jail, police said. West Homestead police and paramedics responded to the 300 block of West Seventh Street after receiving a call about an unconscious man. Anicola told police, thatÃâà...
Tribune-Review
March 25, 2018
Dominick Anacola, 57, is charged with homicide and is being held at the Allegheny County Jail, police said. Just before 5 a.m. Saturday, West Homestead police and paramedics responded to the 300 block of West Seventh Street after receiving a call about an unconscious man. They found an 83-year-oldÃâà...
Point Park Globe
March 22, 2018
Banks served two weeks in the Allegheny County Jail before posting bond. During Thursday's trial, Banks said that his education only reaches 10th grade but he has recently began taking culinary and business classes at the Community College of Allegheny County. Howard also mentioned that Banks'Ãâà...
90.5 WESA
March 21, 2018
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald tells WESA's Kevin Gavin that dealing with the opioid crisis is taking away resources from other county services. ... the Human Services budget, our jail budget, our public safety budget that really gets impacted,” said Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald.
Tribune-Review
March 21, 2018
Dwinga was taken to the Allegheny County Jail. He is charged with homicide by vehicle, involuntary manslaughter, drug violations and traffic violations. Court records showed Dwinga had previously pleaded guilty and been sentenced to jail and probation for pinning a Port Authority Police officer with hisÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 21, 2018
An attorney for correctional officers at the Allegheny County Jail on Tuesday called on county officials to hire 45 more officers to relieve what he characterized as chronic understaffing. “It has to be addressed,” Eric Stoltenberg, attorney for the Allegheny County Prison Employees Independent Union, toldÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 11, 2018
A 24-year-old Westmoreland County man stole a EMS vehicle from Downtown Pittsburgh late Saturday night, then drove 10 miles before crashing into another vehicle in Forest Hills, according to police. Matthew King, of Smithton, is charged with multiple counts of driving under the influence, theft andÃâà...
CorrectionsOne
March 9, 2018
PITTSBURGH — An Allegheny County Jail inmate set fire to his own cell, injuring two correctional officers who extinguished the flames, Warden Orlando Harper said Thursday. Authorities charged inmate Andrew Powell, 29, with one count of causing or risking catastrophe, two counts of recklesslyÃâà...
CBS Pittsburgh / KDKA
March 9, 2018
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — An inmate is facing charges for starting a fire that sent two Allegheny County Jail employees to the hospital. Allegheny County Police say 29-year-old Andrew Powell is facing multiple charges in connection to the March 7 incident. A small, smoldering fire was started in an inmate'sÃâà...
Tribune-Review
March 8, 2018
An Allegheny County Jail inmate set fire to his own cell, injuring two correctional officers who extinguished the flames, Warden Orlando Harper said Thursday. Authorities charged inmate Andrew Powell, 29, with one count of causing or risking catastrophe, two counts of recklessly endangering anotherÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 8, 2018
A 29-year-old inmate in the Allegheny County Jail has been charged with starting a fire in his cell that forced a partial evacuation Wednesday and sent two corrections officers to the hospital for smoke inhalation. Andrew Powell is charged with risking catastrophe, reckless endangerment, institutionalÃâà...
WPXI Pittsburgh
March 7, 2018
Watch Channel 11 News starting at 5 p.m. for updates to this breaking story. All 80 inmates in that pod were evacuated and corrections officers extinguished the fire before firefighters arrived. The jail is currently on lockdown as the pod is being ventilated. No inmates were injured. The hospitalized corrections officer is beingÃâà...
WPXI Pittsburgh
March 7, 2018
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Authorities say a small fire believed to be due to contraband prompted evacuation of part of a western Pennsylvania county jail and sent two guards ... Allegheny County officials said the blaze at the county jail broke out at about 3:20 p.m. Wednesday within a cell and is "believed to have been started byÃâà...
CBS Pittsburgh / KDKA
March 7, 2018
This isn't a whodunit,” said Sheets. Middlebrooks' family attended the proceedings with great interest, but refused comment. His attorney, meanwhile, says this about Middlebrooks: “He's been living everyday as a law abiding citizen for over a decade now. To suddenly find yourself back in jail, with no bond,Ãâà...
WPXI Pittsburgh
March 7, 2018
An Allegheny County Jail guard is in the hospital after a fire began in a cell on Wednesday, the county announced. The fire broke out in Pod 6D around 3:20 p.m., the county said, and is believed to have been started with contraband materials. Watch Channel 11 News starting at 5 p.m. for updates to thisÃâà...
Tribune-Review
March 7, 2018
Authorities say inmates at the Allegheny County Jail started a small fire Wednesday that injured two corrections officers who were taken to a hospital to be treated for symptoms of smoke inhalation. In a news release, county officials said the fire broke out about 3:20 p.m. in a cell in Pod 6D. It was “believedÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 6, 2018
Allegheny County and the city of Pittsburgh plan to sign on with one of the law firms at the center of massive litigation against companies that made or ... City public safety workers have been overwhelmed by overdoses, and county court dockets, human services caseloads and jail pods are dominated byÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 6, 2018
A former inmate in the Allegheny County Jail was charged with multiple counts of assault Monday in connection to an October tussle that injured five correctional officers. John W. Hirschfield, 34, of Scott Township, is accused of breaking one officer's hand, biting another and strangling a third during the Oct.
CBS Pittsburgh / KDKA
March 6, 2018
He thought that the emergency responders were directing him through a barricade and have men jump out of the way of his vehicle,” Chief Dunlevy said. Tipe was arrested and taken to the Allegheny County Jail. He has been charged with eight counts of recklessly endangering another person in additionÃâà...
The Tube City Almanac
March 6, 2018
13 and charged in connection with the robbery. Following a preliminary hearing March 5 before Magisterial District Judge Eugene Riazzi, Payne-Stinson was ordered held for court pending formal arraignment April 19 in Allegheny County Court. He is currently being held in Allegheny County Jail in lieu ofÃâà...
The Pennsylvania Record
March 2, 2018
The suit also states Quincy Deon Fuqua is currently incarcerated at the Allegheny County Jail. The plaintiff holds Quincy Deon Fuqua and David M. Fuqua responsible because Quincy Deon Fuqua allegedly negligently failed to follow the advice of previous medical providers by not seeking appropriateÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 26, 2018
In the past five months of last year, Allegheny County Jail detoxed 1,140 people from opioids, according to Laura Williams, the jail's deputy health services administrator. The jail has started connecting some of those inmates to providers who can give them medication-assisted treatment upon release — butÃâà...
WTAE Pittsburgh
February 22, 2018
Middlebrooks was arrested Thursday night and taken to the Allegheny County Jail. Pittsburgh's Action News 4 reporter spoke with the Mena's mother, who said she feels that in some sense "justice has been served." She also said that her son lived a hard life "that he didn't have to." It is not clear what led toÃâà...
Tribune-Review
February 22, 2018
The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court, alleges in February 2016 that Sommer Bernard, 39, of Brighton Heights, was released from the Allegheny County Jail to the custody of the county's Department of Human Services to be taken to a residential mental health facility. Instead, she was dropped her off atÃâà...
Tribune-Review
February 7, 2018
In January, an airborne substance sickened 15 Allegheny County Jail employees who were searching an inmate's cell. Warden Orlando Harper said at the time that an informant told jail officials that inmates had smuggled in pieces of paper soaked in an unidentified illicit substance. Once dry, inmatesÃâà...
Tribune-Review
February 5, 2018
Allegheny County has paid a $35,000 settlement to parents who say a UPMC doctor misdiagnosed their infant son's bruises as abuse and not a medical ... The next day, the father turned himself in and spent one night in jail, and was released on bond with the condition he have no contact with either of hisÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 5, 2018
Therapists who work with women in the Allegheny County Jail say a new strip-search policy threatens to derail their work and retraumatize inmates. Jail officials in January began strip searching inmates during every meeting with their attorneys in what appears to be an attempt to crack down on syntheticÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (blog)
December 31, 1999
By the time of the hearing, the DA's office had added counts of intimidation of a witness and stalking. Mr. Mowbray, who until then had only a single minor brush with the law in a low-level retail theft case, was taken into custody and held for a day at the Allegheny County Jail. Ms. Thompson bailed him out.
CBS Pittsburgh / KDKA
December 31, 1999
Jail Cell, Prompting Internal EvacuationThe Allegheny County Jail was put on lockdown and several inmates had to be evacuated from one of the pods after a fire broke out Wednesday afternoon. Travel Restrictions Planned For Pennsylvania SnowstormOfficials are announcing travel restrictions for aÃâà...
Philly.com
December 31, 1999
This week, 6,090 people are in Philadelphia's jails, with about one out of every five inmates serving a sentence and the rest either awaiting trial or being held on some sort of detainer. ... The Allegheny County Jail population is usually around 2,200, a number Philadelphia can only dream about for now.
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