Monthly Archives: October 2014
Cal U football players arrested for assault
Criminal defense for assault is a fairly common thing in western PA and throughout the United States, but when five promising young athletes at a local college are arrested for assault, it’s a story to which everyone wants answers. California University of Pennsylvania has cancelled this week’s football game after five of its players—ages 19… Read More »
Hit-and-run driver turns herself in
A hit-and-run accident can land you in prison for a long time. In Pennsylvania, there is a three year jail sentence minimum for those arrested for hit-and-run. This comes after the recently enacted “Kevin’s Law,” that raised the mandatory minimum punishment of hit-and-run drivers from one year to three years in an effort to fix the… Read More »
Man waives preliminary hearing on child porn charges
On Tuesday, a man from Monroeville who was arrested on child pornography charges waived his right to a preliminary hearing. The 45-year-old man was arrested after police found a cache of child pornographic materials in the home he shares with his daughter and 41-year-old wife. After Allegheny County Police searched his home, he was arrested… Read More »
Beaver Falls man in odd DUI case
A man from Beaver Falls was arrested this morning on misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence. This isn’t your normal case, however. According to police officers, the man was taking his child from the child’s mother’s home to his parents’ home when he was pulled over a burnt out tail light. The man said… Read More »
Credit card fraud ring busted
A Nevada woman living here in Pennsylvania would have kept herself out of jail had she remembered the birthday on fake identification card. And the 34-year-old Haverton, PA man who ran the counterfeit credit card scam with which she was involved wouldn’t be in jail either. It has now been found that the man has allegedly… Read More »
Search and seizure of mobile phone requires warrant
A recent federal court case unanimously held that police officers must obtain a search warrant before seizing and searching a person’s mobile phone, even if they have already been arrested. This decision stems from a case where a man was stopped by police in California for an expired license tag. The officer found that the driver’s… Read More »
Alleged mob members to present criminal defense at trial
A Pennsylvania man accused of participating in mob-related crimes will be presenting his criminal defense in a long-awaited trial. The man has been indicted on 25 counts, according to the 107-page indictment that was handed down from a federal grand jury. The man, age 47, was sentenced to a 33-month prison term in May 2010 in… Read More »
Couple charged for sex crimes, prostitution website
A man and a woman from Trafford, PA have been charged with sex crimes for allegedly running their prostitution business through a website. The couple hosted men to pay for sex in Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties. The woman, 31, and her boyfriend, 30, were arrested last Friday after police secured a search warrant to search one… Read More »
Six people from Uniontown await preliminary hearings for drug charges
Drug charges for possession and attempted distribution of controlled substances can empty a person’s bank account and land them in jail for a long time upon conviction. People who are part of a “drug ring” can also be charged with crimes they didn’t personally commit, but were committed by a partner in crime. And when… Read More »
Attorney Gerson gets mandatory drug charges sentence of 3-5 years reduced to 12 months probation
My client was an undergraduate student at the University of Pittsburgh and was charged with Possession with Intent to Deliver Controlled Substances, Conspiracy to Traffic in Controlled Substances, Delivery of Marijuana, Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Clonazepam and Amphetamine, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. My client foolishly permitted a friend involved in drug trafficking to… Read More »
