{"id":185644,"date":"2026-05-06T20:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185644\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T20:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:56:10","slug":"allentown-woman-arrested-by-us-marshals-in-pa-turnpike-i-476-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185644\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown woman arrested by US Marshals in Pa. Turnpike I-476 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Allentown woman charged with vehicular homicide in a fatal wrong-way crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension<\/a> in Lehigh County last year was arrested Wednesday in Philadelphia by a U.S. Marshals task force.<\/p>\n

State police said Onanyeli Rosario-Mesa, 25, was driving an SUV southbound in the northbound lanes of Interstate 476 near mile marker 67 in Washington Township around 9 a.m. March 30, 2025, when she ran into a group of five motorcyclists traveling the opposite direction. John Sweeney, 50, of Bristol, Bucks County, was killed and a 24-year man, also from Bristol, was injured.<\/p>\n

An arrest warrant was filed last month<\/a>, after Rosario-Mesa was charged with homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, homicide by vehicle, involuntary manslaughter, recklessly endangering another person, DUI\/unsafe driving, careless driving-unintentional death, and driving on one-way roadway.<\/p>\n

Authorities said she had a blood alcohol content between 0.10% and 0.16%. In Pennsylvania, the legal BAC limit is 0.08%.<\/p>\n

According to the U.S. Marshals, an anonymous tip was received Tuesday that Rosario-Mesa was hiding in Philadelphia with her boyfriend, who had an apartment in the 2700 block of Stanwood Street in Northeast Philadelphia. Rosario-Mesa was arrested without incident at the apartment around 11 a.m., and transported to the state police Pocono barracks.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo action can reverse this senseless tragedy, but I hope that today\u2019s arrest represents progress in delivering justice for the Sweeny family,\u201d Robert Clark, supervisory deputy U.S. Marshal for the Eastern Pennsylvania Violent Crime Fugitive Task Force, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Rosario-Mesa was sent to Lehigh County Jail, where she remained as of Wednesday afternoon, on $500,000 bail.<\/p>\n

Police said video surveillance footage showed her vehicle driving the wrong way on I-476, passing several vehicles that had pulled over to avoid her.<\/p>\n

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