Published June 05. 2026 09:07AM<\/p>\n
District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan and Capt. Seth J. Kelly, Pennsylvania State Police Troop M Commanding Officer announce a woman charged in a fatal wrong-way crash that occurred on the Pennsylvania Turnpike has been taken into custody.<\/p>\n
In April, this office announced charges against Onanyeli Rosario-Mesa, 26, of Allentown, and said she remained at large.<\/p>\n
Today, May 6, Rosario-Mesa was taken into custody in Philadelphia by the U.S. Marshals Eastern Pennsylvania Violent Crimes Fugitive Task Force.<\/p>\n
Rosario-Mesa is charged with felony counts of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, homicide by vehicle and other charges including involuntary manslaughter, recklessly endangering another person, DUI\/unsafe driving, DUI\/BAC 0.10 to 0.16 percent, careless driving \u2013 unintentional death and one-way roadways \u2013 driving on one-way roadway.<\/p>\n
Rosario-Mesa\u2019s bail has been set at $500,000 and she remains in Lehigh County Jail.<\/p>\n
Her preliminary hearing was scheduled for 10:30 a.m. May 12 before Magisterial District Judge Todd P. Heffelfinger.<\/p>\n
Around 9 a.m. March 30, 2025, Pennsylvania State Police were called to a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 476 northbound at mile marker 67.0 in Washington Township.<\/p>\n
Several witnesses had called 911 and said a vehicle driven by Rosario-Mesa was driving the wrong way in the northbound lanes when her vehicle hit several motorcyclists.<\/p>\n
There were two damaged motorcycles at the scene.<\/p>\n
One driver, identified as 50-year-old John Sweeney Jr., was deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n
Sweeney died from blunt force injuries due to motorcycle\/motor vehicle crash and his death was ruled accidental by the Lehigh County Coroner.<\/p>\n
Several witnesses as well as video surveillance footage showed Rosario-Mesa\u2019s vehicle driving southbound in the northbound lanes, passing several vehicles that pulled to the side of the road to avoid her.<\/p>\n
The investigation also revealed Rosario-Mesa\u2019s vehicle struck the group of motorcyclists, killing the victim and endangering several others.<\/p>\n
At the time of the crash, Rosario-Mesa\u2019s blood-alcohol content was 0.104 percent.<\/p>\n
This case was investigated by Trooper Brian Hrycyszn of the Pennsylvania State Police and will be prosecuted by Chief Deputy District Attorney V. Paul Bernardino III.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published June 05. 2026 09:07AM District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan and Capt. Seth J. Kelly, Pennsylvania State Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-211555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211555","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=211555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}