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Mifflin Road

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Brentwood, West Mifflin Residents Arrested by Baldwin Police

The incidents occurred on Sunday and Monday, respectively.

DUI Arrest on Glass Run Road A Baldwin Borough police officer stopped a vehicle on Glass Run Road at around 12:24 a.m. on Sunday for erratic driving, according to a police report. The officer approached the vehicle and smelled alcohol coming from its driver—William Bertan, 33, of Radisson Road in Brentwood Borough—according to the report. The officer also reported that Bertan admitted to recently drinking alcohol. Bertan then failed a breath-analyzer test and some field-sobriety tests before being arrested and taken to the Baldwin police station, where he again failed a breath-analyzer test. He was eventually released to a friend and is being charged with suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. DUI Arrest on Mifflin Road A …

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Baldwin Borough Municipal Complex, Baldwin Borough Police Department, and Fights Along Curry Road Cap Youth Football Banquet

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NE12Ukid

4:15 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013

thanks to all who serve, that includes our military and our local police officers. But to somehow try to compare the two jobs is nonsense IMO. Even military POLICE have a different job, different compensation, different work environment than civilian police, what sense does it make to try to compare them?   more ›

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Nearby: Route 885 Roadwork

Lane closures will occur on weekdays from Dec. 3-12.

Crews from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation District 11-0 will cause intermittent, short-term lane closures on Route 885 (Mifflin Road) on weekdays from Dec. 3-12 due to geotechnical drilling and research for several proposed culvert (water tunnel) replacements. The work will occur on the border of Pittsburgh's Hays and New Homestead neighborhoods—from Mifflin Road's intersection with Slate Street to its intersection with Doerrville Avenue. The lane closures will occur as needed from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on work days. Motorists should use caution and expect changing traffic patterns when traveling through the area. Read about other roadwork in and around Baldwin-Whitehall here.  --- Follow the Baldwin-Whitehall Patch on Facebook …

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PennDOT Engineering District 11 (in Chartiers Valley Patch)

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Driver Stopped, Asleep in Middle of Becks Run Road

And another incident from north Baldwin in these police stories from the past week.

Driver Asleep on Becks Run Road A Baldwin Borough police officer found the driver of an SUV stopped in the middle of Becks Run Road and asleep with his foot on the vehicle's brake. The incident occurred while the SUV was facing west in Baldwin's 600 block of Becks Run at around 2:49 a.m. on Thursday, according to a police report. The vehicle's engine was running, it was in gear, and its headlights were on. But the driver—Mario Joseph Germany, 24, of Cedricton Street in Pittsburgh's Carrick neighborhood—did not wake up until another police officer arrived at the scene, entered Germany's passenger's-side door, put the vehicle in park and turned off its engine. Germany had the odor of alcohol coming from him and admitted to recently drinking …

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Baldwin Borough Municipal Complex and Baldwin Borough Police Department

Monday, October 15, 2012

Baldwin Police Arrest Man After Crash

And another DUI arrest in these Baldwin police notes from the past week.

He Knew What Was Coming A man who crashed his vehicle into a metal pole on a grassy median near the Mifflin Road exit off of East Carson Street early on Saturday morning knew what was coming to him. Luke Benedict Royer Jr., 32, of Woodhill Drive in Munhall Borough, admitted to recently drinking alcohol after a Baldwin Borough police officer approached his crashed vehicle at around 2:45 that day in Pittsburgh's Hays neighborhood, according to a Baldwin police report. Royer was cooperative with police, even admitting that he deserved punishment, the report states. The Baldwin officer observed Royer's vehicle swerving on East Carson/River Road in north Baldwin a few minutes prior to the crash. The officer was heading north on East Carson …

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Baldwin Borough Municipal Complex and Baldwin Borough Police Department

Monday, October 1, 2012

Arrest for DUI, Drugs in North Baldwin

Motorist will be charged with a number of offenses.

A man is being charged with driving under the influence of both alcohol and drugs and possession of both a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia after his vehicle was pulled over on Mifflin Road in Pittsburgh's Hays neighborhood by a Baldwin Borough police officer in the early morning of Sept. 22. (UPDATE: The possession of a controlled substance charge was withdrawn on Jan. 22.) According to a police report, the man—David Alan Hitt, 24, of Homeridge Dr. in the New Homestead neighborhood—failed to dim his vehicle's high beams while driving south toward the officer on north Baldwin's stretch of East Carson Street/River Road at around 3:34 that day. The officer turned around and followed Hitt's vehicle, reporting that Hitt exited East …

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Baldwin Borough Police Department, Baldwin Borough Municipal Complex, and 24 Alcohol-Related Court Updates Out of Baldwin Boro

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