Category: True Crime

Pennsylvania Trio Strangle Overdosing Man In Car & Dressed Up Body To Look Alive

Three people in Pennsylvania were arrested last week for allegedly strangling a man who was overdosing on drugs with jumper cables, putting a hat and sunglasses on him to make him look alive and dumping his body in the woods.

According to KTLA:

According to investigators in Lackawanna County, suspect Tyler Mirabelli told police his friends called him for a ride when they thought the victim, Joshua Rose, was overdosing. Instead, troopers allege Mirabelli drove his truck north on Interstate 81  from Scranton toward Susquehanna County with the victim, and suspects Preston Layfield and Amanda Wayda in the car.

Prosecutors said they have never seen a case like this before.

“Bottom line, they drove right past a hospital and continued north on I-81. At this time, we are not sure why they did that,” said Pennsylvania State Police Corporal Mark Prushinski.

According to court papers, as the group reached northern Lackawanna County Layfield used jumper cables to strangle Rose.

Troopers said before the trio stopped for gas, they dressed up the body to make him look alive   by placing a hat and sunglasses on him.

“If someone is OD’ing you should help them, right? To the hospital is the number one thing, not strangle them and dump their body. It’s absolutely terrible,” said Brandon Ritter, of Lenoxville.

Detectives said the group then made another stop near on Glenwood Road in Hop Bottom where they heaved the body near some railroad tracks.

Tammy Carey lives right up the hill and heard a train whistle blow as police arrived.

“I thought it was a deer or something on the tracks, but it turns out it was something different,” Carey said.

An arrest warrant was issued for Wayda. State police said she called police on Sunday and told them she had witnessed a murder.

Wayda was taken into custody by troopers from the Frackville station and was being held in the Lackawanna County Prison.

Mirabelli and Layfield were charged with aggravated assault and conspiracy.

An autopsy for  Rose was scheduled for Tuesday. Prosecutors said they expect to file more charges.

Absolutely mortifying and demonic.

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New Heroin With Elephant Tranquilizers Causes 90 ODs In One Week In Indiana

According to CNN, authorities in Ohio, Indiana and Florida are panicking about new batches of dope laced with the elephant tranquilizer carfentanil:

Carfentanil can slow breathing significantly. It’s not approved for human use but is used commercially to sedate large animals, such as elephants. About 2 milligrams can knock out a nearly 2,000-pound African elephant.
Many users may not know they are even taking the drug, officials have said, as dealers are cutting heroin with fentanyl analogues to give it a boost and stretch their supply.

Its potency is deadly, and it’s causing concern for those fighting the heroin epidemic, as recent overdose outbreaks in Ohio, Indiana and Florida have been linked to the drug.

WCPO in Cincinnati reports cops are even begging people to leave that smack alone:

“We’re urging you, please don’t do heroin right now,” said Newtown police Chief Tom Synan, head of the Hamilton County Heroin Task Force, “If for no other reason, because we don’t know what’s in the stuff on the street.”

Synan said the dealers know they’re distributing a deadly mix and they’re doing it on purpose.

“These people are intentionally putting in drugs they know can kill someone,” said Synan. “The benefit for them is if the user survives it is such a a powerful high for them, they tend to come back … If one or two people dies, they could care less. They know the supply is so big right now that if you lose some customers in their eyes there’s always more in line.”

What in the ENTIRE hell? Say NO to drugs people!