{"id":205264,"date":"2026-05-29T11:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205264\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:06:06","slug":"pittston-man-charged-with-dealing-meth-wilkes-barre-citizens-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205264\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittston man charged with dealing meth \u2013 Wilkes-Barre Citizens&#8217; Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A months-long investigation into drug trafficking in the City of Pittston ended Thursday with police raiding a suspected drug house and arresting its occupant.<\/p>\n<p>Albert L. Kachinsky Jr., 60, is accused of selling methamphetamine during multiple controlled drug deals organized by undercover officers earlier this year, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s search of Kachinsky\u2019s home at 15 Howley Circle turned up meth, fentanyl, crack cocaine, prescription medications and drug-packaging materials, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Police charged Kachinsky with four felony counts of drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Magisterial District Judge Daniel O\u2019Donnell arraigned Kachinsky on the charges and set bail at $25,000.<\/p>\n<p>Kachinsky was being held at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility with a preliminary hearing scheduled for June 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A months-long investigation into drug trafficking in the City of Pittston ended Thursday with police raiding a suspected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,182,803,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-205264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}