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An Erie Bureau of Police cruiser is shown at city hall in Erie on July 19, 2022.<\/p>\n
GREG WOHLFORD\/ERIE TIMES-NEWS FI<\/p>\n
USA TODAY Network, Reuters<\/p>\n
An Erie man accused of driving a stolen vehicle and of having drugs when police confronted him in late August waived his criminal case to court Sept. 21 after prosecutors amended and withdrew some charges he faced.<\/p>\n
Uwayd O. Hussein, 28, waived to court at his preliminary hearing Sept. 21 a third-degree misdemeanor count of receiving stolen property that was amended from a third-degree felony count, and a felony count of possession with intent to deliver. Prosecutors at the hearing withdrew a number of other charges Hussein faced, including a second count of possession with intent to deliver and three misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Hussein was initially jailed without bond at his Aug. 22 arraignment, then had bond set at $150,000 on Aug. 24, court records show. On Sept. 21, Erie 1st Ward District Judge Christine Rush lowered Hussein’s bond to 10% of $25,000, with no objection from prosecutors, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Erie police officers on patrol Aug. 22 said they spotted Hussein getting out of a 2011 Nissan Rogue that was reported stolen. When police searched Hussein, they said they found him with a camouflage bag that contained knotted bags of suspected drugs along with suspected drug paraphernalia, according to information in Hussein’s criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Contact Tim Hahn at thahn@usatodayco.com.<\/p>\n
This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Erie man waives adjusted charges in stolen car probe that led to drugs<\/p>\n
Reporting by Tim Hahn, Erie Times-News \/ Erie Times-News<\/p>\n
USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
Copyright Reuters or USA Today via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
This story was originally published September 22, 2026 at 4:59 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Erie Bureau of Police cruiser is shown at city hall in Erie on July 19, 2022. GREG…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-291561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291561","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=291561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}