Pittsburgh, PA: Medical Situation on South Side - multiple deaths and hospitalizations

[Emily]

https://pittsburghpa.gov/publicsafety/blotterview.html?id=299

UPDATE: Medical Situation on South Side

Date: September 22, 2019
Incident Type: Medical Situation
Location: South Side
Summary: Pittsburgh Police are responding to a medical situation in the South Side.
Police can confirm multiple hospitalizations and deaths.
All of the victims are wearing orange paper bands on their wrists.
Anyone who attended or has knowledge of a party or event in which guests were given orange wrist bands, please call Police at (412) 323-7141.
More details will be released when available.
UPDATE (8:43 a.m.) ? Director Wendell Hissrich confirms three dead and four in hospital with conditions ranging from serious to critical.
Five victims found in apartment, one in elevator outside apartment and one on street at 26th/Carson.
Police have identified two venues that were using orange wrist bands last night.
Investigation continues.

Reporting PIO: Chris Togneri 2019-09-22
PIO@pittsburghpa.gov

[Emily]

Fentanyl again.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/criminal-complaint-filed-charging-peter-rene-sanchez-montalvo-multiple-fatal-and-non

Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney?s Office
Western District of Pennsylvania

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, September 23, 2019



Criminal Complaint Filed Charging Peter Rene Sanchez Montalvo in Multiple Fatal and Non-fatal Overdoses on Pittsburgh?s South Side

PITTSBURGH ? Peter Rene Sanchez Montalvo aka Carlos has been charged by federal criminal complaint with illegal distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death and serious bodily injury, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady, FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Jones and Pittsburgh Public Safety Director Wendell Hissrich announced today.
According to the federal criminal complaint filed in this case, Montalvo was arrested early this morning at a residence in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, a Pittsburgh suburb. According to the affidavit in support of the complaint, the overdoses occurred after Montalvo distributed narcotics at an apartment on the South Side. During the party, Montalvo, wearing distinctive clothing, produced a large quantity of powdered narcotics in a box. He then cut into the narcotics and scooped out a large quantity of what the users believed was cocaine. Montalvo then started going around the room with the knife, allowing individuals to sniff the white powder from it. The surviving users stated that after they did a "bump" of suspected cocaine people immediately began to drop and suffer adverse effects. Investigation by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner?s Office has initially determined the presence of fentanyl in the white powder...