Crime News

SMETHPORT — As defendant Thomas McElhattan seeks to have a McKean County Court jury find him guilty of a lesser count of criminal homicide, the distri...

HAMLIN TOWNSHIP — A traffic stop earlier this month led to the discovery of a controlled substance and thousands of unstamped cigarettes, according to...

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP — An 18‑year‑old Smethport man and his passenger were injured late Wednesday in a rollover crash on Route 155 that state police say i...

Shane Hvizdzak was jailed Wednesday after a federal judge found he committed new fraud while awaiting sentencing in his cryptocurrency case. U.S. Dist...

The trial for the Bradford man accused in the June 2025 shooting death of a woman in her Jefferson Street home was due to begin today in McKean County...

City of Bradford Police charged a man who allegedly tried to buy a pistol while under an active protection order. Police said Tyrone Wayne Bailey, 38,...

City of Bradford Police arrested Michael Schoonover after officers responded to a report of threats at 79 Lincoln Ave. at 4:50 p.m. Apr. 22. Police sa...

HARRISBURG — Chief Justice Debra Todd is warning Pennsylvanians about a text message scam that falsely claims to be from the Pennsylvania Supreme Cour...

SMETHPORT — An Olean, N.Y., man has been sentenced to state prison for assault and multiple drug offenses committed in Bradford, according to District...

Senior Judge Norman Krumenacker III of Cambria County has been assigned to the capital murder case against Tyler Prescott, who is accused of raping an...

The Pennsylvania Parole Board has granted parole to Paul Morrisroe, who was convicted in the 2015 hit-and-run death of Dakota Heinaman in Cyclone. Mor...

SMETHPORT — The Pennsylvania Superior Court has denied Walter “Ghost” Dennis’ claim that his trial attorney was ineffective, affirming a McKean County...

SMETHPORT — A McKean County jury has convicted Michael Cunningham, formerly of Kane, in the 2022 overdose death of a Kane man, District Attorney Steph...

City of Bradford Police, working with Pennsylvania State Parole and the U.S. Marshals Task Force, arrested Todd H. Stahli, 31, at 11:56 a.m. April 16 ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — A Jamestown man who was already behind bars for kidnapping an elderly couple in Warren County, Pa. has been sentenced for the shootin...

LEWIS RUN — Pennsylvania State Police conducted a DUI roving detail April 3 in McKean County, resulting in multiple arrests and citations, according t...

RIDGWAY — A 25-year-old man has been charged in connection with a fatal crash that killed a Ridgway resident last fall. According to court records fil...

Federal prosecutors have pushed back on Shane Hvizdzak’s latest objections to his presentence investigation report, arguing in a new filing that every...

The capital murder case against Tyler Prescott, accused of raping and murdering his 2-year-old son last August, has stalled pending the appointment of...

SMETHPORT — A former Bradford woman arrested during a McKean County Drug Task Force investigation has been sentenced to state prison. Nateka Shugars a...