Major Warrant Sweep In Washington County

It was a busy Friday morning for law enforcement in Washington.  Washington County Sheriff Tony Andronas says that in the early morning hours, the Sheriff’s Fugitive Warrant Unit, along with City of Washington Police, South Strabane Township Police, State Police, the Washington County Drug Task Force, Washington County Adult Probation, Pennsylvania Parole and the United States Marshal Fugitive Task Force, conducted a warrant sweep.  Andronas says that out of some forty bench and probation warrants for various crimes, eleven arrest warrants were made.  They ranged from firearms, drugs and probation violations, to the arrest of an individual who was wanted by Federal Parole officials for a firearms violation.