Westmoreland among the highest counties with drug deliveries resulting in death offenses

Westmoreland County among highest drug delivery deaths

GREENSBURG (KDKA) – Westmoreland County has one of the highest percentages of drug delivery resulting in death offenses in Pennsylvania.

The first-degree felony is issued to someone who intentionally sells, gives, or prescribes a controlled substance that leads to another person dying as a result.

There were more than 200 offenses filed across the commonwealth last year and six percent of those were in Westmoreland County.

Westmoreland County
Drug Use

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