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4-Year-Old Child Hands Heroin To PA Police During Traffic Stop: Affidavit 4-Year-Old Child Hands Heroin To PA Police During Traffic Stop: Affidavit
4-Year-Old Child Hands Heroin To PA Police During Traffic Stop: Affidavit A preschool handed police "mommy's medicine"— as known as heroin— during a traffic stop in Western Pennsylvania on Sunday, June 18, 2023, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. Christine Lynn Kregiel, 33, was spotted stumbling out of her Chevy Equinox with a young child in the car, so a bystander called the police, according to the affidavit of probable cause.  Plum Borough police responded and observed her running two stop signs and driving over the yellow line on Plum Street. When she pulled over on Renton Road she was crying, slurring her words, and she appeared …

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by Jillian Pikora
Politics
Gun Pulled At GOP Meeting By Ex-Allegheny County Council Candidate: Affidavit Gun Pulled At GOP Meeting By Ex-Allegheny County Council Candidate: Affidavit
Gun Pulled At GOP Meeting By Ex-Allegheny County Council Candidate: Affidavit A 2021 candidate for the Allegheny County Council pulled a gun and threatened members of the Plum Borough GOP Committee, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. Eric Philip Casteel, a 62-year-old Cyber Security Architect also threatened three members of the Republican Committee— Mike Doyle, former US Congress nominee and current Plum council president, Paul Dern, current council vice president and Gerard "Jerry" Purcell, who is running for Plum council— at the Plum Community Center on Center New Texas Road on Thursday, April 27, 2023, around 8 p.m., according to the affid…

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News
Police Sergeant's Son ID'd Days After Falling To Death Out Of Window In Pittsburgh Suburb Police Sergeant's Son ID'd Days After Falling To Death Out Of Window In Pittsburgh Suburb
Police Sergeant's Son ID'd Days After Falling To Death Out Of Window In Pittsburgh Suburb The infant son of a police sergeant who fell out of a window in a Pittsburgh suburb on Tuesday, August 30, has died, authorities say. Henry "Hank" Witucki, 1, fell out of a window of the second-story window of his family's home in the 100 block of Winchester Drive in Plum Borough around 6:30 p.m., Allegheny County police say.  The infant survived the fall and was rushed to UPMC's Children's Hospital in critical condition, according to Allegheny County police. He remained in the ICU for several days but succumbed to his injuries on Saturday, September 3, according to the Allegheny County Med…

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Infant Falls Out Of Window In Pittsburgh Suburb, Police Say Infant Falls Out Of Window In Pittsburgh Suburb, Police Say
Infant Falls Out Of Window In Pittsburgh Suburb, Police Say A 1-year-old infant fell out of a window in a Pittsburgh suburb on Tuesday, August 30, police say. Allegheny County 9-1-1 was made aware of the fall out of a window of a home in the 100 block of Winchester Drive in Plum Borough around 6:30 p.m. The infant survived the fall but remains hospitalized and in critical condition, according to Allegheny County police. The Allegheny County Police Department's Homicide Unit we're initially called to assist in Plum Borough, but the units' detectives are now leading the investigation.  Anyone with information concerning this incident is as…

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by Jillian Pikora