{"id":240168,"date":"2026-07-10T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240168\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:00:26","slug":"man-charged-in-erie-water-death-accused-in-westmoreland-drug-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240168\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged in Erie water death accused in Westmoreland drug case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A Westmoreland County man scheduled to appear in court in Erie next week to face charges in a fatal 2025 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goerie.com\/story\/news\/local\/2025\/07\/19\/lake-erie-missing-kayaker-pittsburgh-body-recovered\/85287770007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">boating accident<\/a> on Lake Erie is facing misdemeanor drug charges in his home county following a raid July 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Derek Bold, 22, of North Huntingdon, was jailed on $25,000 bond in Westmoreland County following his arraignment July 8 on misdemeanor counts of possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to court documents. A lawyer for Bold in the case was not listed on his criminal docket sheet July 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m. ET A Westmoreland County man scheduled to appear in court in Erie next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[596,136,138,137,539,82371,2315,2316,1864,650,2318,1748,3008,1143,1844,1865,651,648,18931,16748,7978,535],"class_list":["post-240168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-accessmetered","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-pa","tag-sourceerie-times-news","tag-sstsnewscrime","tag-sstsncrime","tag-tagaccidents-disasters","tag-tagcrime-justice","tag-tagcriminal-investigations","tag-tagdeath-tragedy","tag-tagdeath-investigations","tag-tagerie","tag-tagerie-county","tag-taglaw-enforcement","tag-taglocal-news","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagpennsylvania-fish-and-boat-commission","tag-tagpreliminary-hearings","tag-tagrecreational-drugs","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240168","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=240168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}