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Mayor: recent Crafton police operations involved county SWAT; mayor urges cautious public communications
Summary
Mayor Perry described a series of searches and arrests tied to a May search for a suspect with multiple warrants, clarified that an arrest on June 7 involved a different person and urged more careful social‑media communications during active investigations.
Crafton Mayor Perry told the borough council on Thursday that recent concentrated police activity in Crafton stemmed from an ongoing search that began May 18 for a person believed connected to an attempted kidnapping incident, and that county police SWAT and mutual aid were called to assist during several search operations.
Perry said the May 18 investigation and subsequent incidents involved canine units, drones and mutual aid searches in neighborhoods including Fountain, Promenade and Woodlawn, and that the June 7 arrest reported by county police was not the originally sought suspect but produced other arrestable warrants.
“What I want to point out again because of some of the questions…
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