A recent bust of a South Central Pennsylvania prescription drug ring by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office is a perfect illustration of why prescription drug fraud is the "white collar crime" of the drug world. Prescription drug fraud often involves active...
State College Criminal Law Blog
DUI Arrests Will Increase as Apartments Move Further from Penn State Campus
At one time, almost all Penn State students either lived on campus or a stone's throw away. Those days have been gone since the 1980s. As enrollment increased, so too did the need for student housing. Developers met this demands by creating student apartments at...
Sequester is Slowing Down the Wheels of Justice
Amid all the talk of the effects of the sequester, the mainstream media has provided surprisingly little coverage of the sequester's effect on the federal justice system. Both the Department of Justice, which prosecutes federal criminal cases, and the Federal...
Drug War is a Game of Whac-A-Mole
A recent drug bust in Huntingdon County illustrates the Whack-A-Mole nature of the War on Drugs. On March 28, 2013, the Pennsylvania State Police arrested three people at Huntingdon Motor Inn, recovering 751 stamp bags of heroin, four ounces of cocaine and more than...
Hunting Deer at Wal-Mart Could Send Man to Jail
In a case, which will outrage card-carrying NRA members and anti-gun, suburban soccer-moms alike, a Westmoreland County man found out the hard way that it is not merely a Game Law violation to hunt deer without a license in a Wal-Mart parking lot. In addition to being...
Penn State Underage Drinking and Public Drunkenness: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
Underage drinking and public drunkenness charges are ubiquitous in a college town like State College, PA, where I work as a criminal defense attorney. Just because you drink underage or to excess here at Penn State does not mean you are going to be caught. In fact,...
What Penn State Students Need to Know about Criminal Convictions
As a criminal defense attorney in State College, PA, a high percentage of my clients are students at Penn State and other nearby schools, like Lock Haven, Bucknell, Susquehanna and Juniata College. Therefore, I need to be particularly attuned to the special concerns...
Bill O’Brien Should Not Give Up on Zayd Issah
The recent talk of Nittany Nation has been the multiple counts of forgery and theft by deception lodged against highly touted LB recruit Zayd Issah on March 10, 2013, in Dauphin County. Issah and his friends allegedly tried to pass counterfeit bills at the North Front...

