PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Pittston man is facing multiple felony drug charges following a months-long narcotics investigation that culminated in a search warrant at his home Thursday.<\/p>\n
According to Pittston City police, the department’s Special Investigation Unit began investigating Albert Kachinsky during the early months of 2026 after receiving information that he was allegedly distributing methamphetamine throughout Pittston and surrounding communities.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the case included multiple controlled purchases of methamphetamine, which ultimately led authorities to obtain a search warrant for Kachinsky\u2019s residence on Howley Circle.<\/p>\n
Police executed the warrant Thursday at the residence and reported finding distribution quantities of methamphetamine, fentanyl, crack cocaine and prescription narcotics.<\/p>\n
Authorities also seized packaging materials commonly associated with drug trafficking.<\/p>\n
Kachinsky was taken into custody and charged with four counts of manufacture, delivery or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance.<\/p>\n
He was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Daniel O’Donnell, who set bail at $25,000 straight cash.<\/p>\n
Several agencies assisted with the investigation, including the Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office Drug Task Force, the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Kingston Borough Police Department, Wilkes-Barre Police Department, Dallas Township Police Department and Wyoming Area Regional Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Pittston man is facing multiple felony drug charges following a months-long narcotics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-205318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205318","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=205318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}