Police Waiting For Forensics Before Filing Hit-and-Run Charges
WILKES-BARRE – Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis told Newswatch 16 that investigators are focused on processing a vehicle suspected in the deadly hit-and-run of a 5-year-old boy...
View ArticleCar Suspected in Fatal Hit and Run Used for Reconstruction
WILKES-BARRE — Authorities in Luzerne County spent several hours Thursday evening extensively reconstructing the scene and suspected exit path of a hit-and-run driver that struck and killed a...
View ArticleArrest Made In Deadly Hit and Run
WILKES-BARRE — Four months after a boy was struck and killed by a hit and run driver in Wilkes-Barre, police have made an arrest in the case. Kevin Miller, 5, was leaving a Christmas party with his...
View ArticleDeadly Hit and Run Case Headed to Trial
WILKES-BARRE — A magistrate ruled there is enough evidence against a hit-and-run suspect to send the case to trial. Before the ruling, there was at times, some emotional testimony. Thomas Letteer...
View ArticleGuilty Plea For Hit and Run That Killed A Child
WILKES-BARRE — A man admitted in court that he killed a boy in a hit and run crash in Luzerne County. That guilty plea in the hit and run death of a 5 year old comes one week before the case was...
View ArticlePrison For Hitting, Killing Child in Wilkes-Barre
WILKES-BARRE — A man was sentenced Thursday afternoon for hitting and killing a little boy in Wilkes-Barre and then taking off. It’s two to five years in prison for Thomas Letteer. It was just days...
View ArticleState Lawmakers Back Kevin’s Law
WILKES-BARRE — A mother’s mission to change the state law in memory of her little boy now has some lawmakers on her side. It’s called Kevin’s Law, and it’s named after five-year-old Kevin Miller, who...
View ArticleIncreasing The Punishment For Hit And Runs
WILKES-BARRE — Of the 5,000 cases the Luzerne County district attorney’s office handles each year, many of them are hit-and-run crashes. In 2012 alone, five deadly hit and runs happened within six...
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