PITTSBURGH
Pittsburgh City Council has approved paying $155,000 to a man who said he was wrongly stunned by a Taser for criticizing a city officer after getting a ticket for not using his turn signal.
Fifty-three-year-old Daniel Hackett III, of Mount Lebanon, sued claiming he yelled at the officer on March 15, 2008 during the city's St. Patrick's Day celebration.
Hackett yelled after he saw someone run a red light and another man urinating in public, complaining that police should ticket people like that instead.
Hackett says he was stunned and handcuffed, only to have police later drop resisting arrest and disorderly conduct charges.
Two of three men caught trespassing at Heinz Field on Sunday have pleaded guilty.Twenty-eight-year-old Shazad Mehta, of Elmhurst, Ill. and 27-year-old Neville Medhora, of Austin, Texas, pleaded guilty Thursday to reduced charges of trespass and disorderly conduct and fined $600 each, plus court costs.The men attended a wedding at the Pittsburgh Steelers' stadium Saturday night and sneaked in Sunday because they're fans and wanted to stand on the field and take pictures. Pittsburgh police say the men initially said they had returned to find a lost wallet.A third man will return to Pittsburgh to face his charges on June 30.
A Pittsburgh-area man whose wife allegedly shot and killed an FBI agent during a raid at his home is expected to plead guilty to drug trafficking charges.A change-of-plea hearing is scheduled for today for Robert Korbe. Agents arrested Korbe in November 2008 in a raid during which FBI Agent Samuel Hicks was shot and killed.
