{"id":267436,"date":"2026-08-18T09:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267436\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:32:17","slug":"allegheny-county-da-petitions-judge-for-another-search-warrant-extension-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267436\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegheny County DA petitions judge for another search warrant extension \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH  \u2014 11 Investigates has learned that the Allegheny County District Attorney\u2019s office has asked the judge for yet another extension to keep that City Hall search warrant sealed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The most recent extension<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/search-warrant-city-pittsburgh-stay-sealed-another-30-days\/7NWYPJVUVFFOVAFV4ZUJC6CM24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/search-warrant-city-pittsburgh-stay-sealed-another-30-days\/7NWYPJVUVFFOVAFV4ZUJC6CM24\/\"> granted by the judge last month<\/a> is set to expire this coming Saturday, but the DA\u2019s office filed a motion to keep the search warrant sealed for another 30 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The judge has yet to rule on that extension, but she has already granted several other 30-day extensions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The DA says the search warrant should remain sealed so it doesn\u2019t tip off any potential targets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">As 11 Investigates first reported, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/allegheny-county-district-attorneys-office-serves-sealed-search-warrant-city-pittsburgh\/ABJE4UVTVVANJE5GNLP6JQINBQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/allegheny-county-district-attorneys-office-serves-sealed-search-warrant-city-pittsburgh\/ABJE4UVTVVANJE5GNLP6JQINBQ\/\">search warrant was seeking information and documents<\/a> from the administration of former Mayor Ed Gainey. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">District Attorney Stephen Zappalla has said he has a lot of questions about no-bid contracts and money that was funneled through the Stop The Violence grants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">No charges have been filed yet and the investigation is apparently still ongoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The initial search warrant was issued back in March and sealed for 60 days. The DA filed for extensions in May, June, July and now August. The judge granted the request for May, June and July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 11 Investigates has learned that the Allegheny County District Attorney\u2019s office has asked the judge for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8003,2697,2103,10881,17204,17208,112762,73,75,74,5555,112761,112763,112760],"class_list":["post-267436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-city-hall","tag-city-of-pittsburgh","tag-ed-gainey","tag-gainey","tag-mayor-ed-gainey","tag-mayor-gainey","tag-no-bid-contracts","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-search-warrant","tag-stephen-zappalla","tag-stop-the-violence","tag-zappalla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267436","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=267436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}