Patrick Russin, the man who became derisively known as \u201cPat the Rat\u201d for testifying against notorious killer Hugo Selenski, pleaded guilty Tuesday to disorderly conduct charges.<\/p>\n
Russin, 56, of Dallas, had been charged with resisting arrest and ethnic intimidation stemming from his arrest at the Dallas Twp. police headquarters on April 11, 2024.<\/p>\n
According to prosecutors, Russin went to the headquarters to pick up some property related to a previous incident when police discovered he had a federal arrest warrant in a drug-trafficking case. Russin began to struggle with police and told a Hispanic officer to \u201cgo back to the border where your cousins came from,\u201d according to the charges.<\/p>\n
In exchange for Russin\u2019s plea to disorderly conduct charges, prosecutors withdrew the resisting arrest and ethnic intimidation counts as well as drug possession charges in an unrelated case.<\/p>\n
Luzerne County Judge David W. Lupas accepted the plea and immediately sentenced Russin to two to six months in jail. The sentence will be served concurrently with a seven-year federal prison sentence Russin is serving for dealing methamphetamine in the drug-trafficking case.<\/p>\n
Russin acquired the \u201cPat the Rat\u201d sobriquet after testifying that he shot and killed two drug dealers during a crack deal at Selenski\u2019s Kingston Twp. home in 2003.<\/p>\n
He was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison on third-degree murder and robbery charges, and was released on parole in January 2016.<\/p>\n
Selenski, 52, was beat the murder charges in that case but was later convicted in another double-murder case. He is serving life in prison without parole at State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Russin, the man who became derisively known as \u201cPat the Rat\u201d for testifying against notorious killer Hugo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[815,102,104,103,251,7630,223,7631],"class_list":{"0":"post-260996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-courts","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-luzerne-county","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-pennsylvania"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}