Staniszewski To Enter Treatment Facility

April 13, 2021 7:37 am

Washington City Councilman Matt Staniszewski has been resentenced and will be released from the Washington County jail to spend 30-days at an inpatient treatment facility in Monroeville. The 44 year old councilman was jailed in February after a probation violation when State Police in Bedford County say his vehicle was found blocking a lane along the turnpike. Police say his blood-alcohol level was more than three-times the legal limit. Probation officers then went to Staniszewski’s father’s home the next day and say they found him intoxicated. The probation violation was in connection with his DUI arrest here in the city back in the summer of 2019. Staniszewski’s attorney Sean Logue tells WJPA news that he has yet to hear from police in connection with the Bedford County incident. A preliminary hearing on those charges has not been set. Logue says his client is eager to get the help he needs and to get back to work on city council. Logue says Staniszewski has no intention to resign from that position.