Pittsburgh Criminal and DUI Lawyer

Sobriety checkpoints have come under scrutiny by Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court recently. A sobriety checkpoint is a spot set up by police from various towns for the purpose of screening drivers. All the vehicles passing that point are pulled over, licenses and registrations checked, and the driver’s behavior observed. If a driver exhibits behaviors or speech…

I read in the paper today about a twenty-one-year-old man who was picked up for driving under the influence of alcohol two times within one day. Actually, it was twice within a three-hour period. Cody James Winslow was first arrested at 2:48 am on May 15 after driving his vehicle into a ditch. He failed…

A Cranberry woman is facing multiple charges in the death of her boyfriend, officials report. Twenty-eight-year-old Jessica Ann Royall sped down a half-mile of residential streets with her boyfriend, 27-year-old Ryan Minett, clinging to the luggage rack on the driver’s side rear of the SUV. Minett screamed to onlookers to call 911 until he fell…

Two countywide candidates and one mayoral candidate are facing challenges to their candidacies in primary elections here in Washington County. The challenges against all three of the candidates were made before the deadline. Two of the candidates are Republican – Mark Kennison, who is running for Mayor of Washington, and David A. Borodaty, who is…

A man from Florida was arrested on Monday in Peters Township. He is a suspect in a fraud ring that is reported to have stolen more than $500,000 from Citizens Bank. Working together, Peters police and postal inspectors arrested Cassio Orville Slowden, age 27, of Pembroke Pines, at about 2 PM. Court records show that…

A woman was kidnapped at gunpoint Monday from outside her home in Monroeville. She told police that five men kidnapped her then tied her to a chair inside an abandoned house in Pittsburgh’s Larimer section. She said she was being held for ransom but was able to escape when she was left unguarded for a…

A man from Hopewell Township was charged on Sunday with firing a round from a semiautomatic handgun at his wife while she sat in a vehicle that she had locked herself into. The woman had locked herself and a baby in the car to escape the man. Bond was set at $100,000 by District Judge…

The attorney for a homicide suspect on Monday argued that his client’s nominal bail should be reconsidered by a Fayette County judge. County Senior Judge Gerald R. Solomon was asked by assistant public defender Michael Aubele to reconsider the motion he made to deny nominal bail for Christopher C. Shellhammer, age 31, of McClellandtown. Shellhammer…

A man from Monongahela Township who is waiting to go on trial for allegedly raping a preteen girl over two years ago has been accused of raping another girl during that time. Additional child rape charges were filed last week by state police against Matthew S. Perry, age 40, of 197 Hartley Road, after the…

Mercer County District Attorney Miles Karson has been found guilty by a jury of 10 crimes, and not guilty of one. One of the charges he was found guilty of was obstruction. Two charges that Carson faced were dismissed. Karson had been accused of misusing his position as district attorney to change the outcome of…