Preliminary hearing rescheduled 7th time
MOON TWP — Just weeks after appearing in federal court on charges of fraud and embezzlement, 50-year-old Scott Roskovski accompanied his 21-year-old son Tuesday to an Allegheny County court for the younger man's own charges of possessing a trove of psychedelic drugs.
Jacob Scott Roskovski of Center Township was arrested and arraigned Jan. 24 on a list of felony and misdemeanor drug charges after police said they found a variety of psychedelic drugs in his Moon Township apartment last summer. On Tuesday, Jacob Roskovski rescheduled his preliminary court hearing for the seventh time.
His lawyer, Charles Porter, declined to comment on the case.
Senior Judge Thomas Brletic, filling in for the Coraopolis district judge, rescheduled Jacob's hearing for July 2.
Jacob faces seven felony charges of po ssession of a controlled substance, six misdemeanor charges of possession of a controlled substance and one misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.
Authorities said they found numerous illegal drugs — including marijuana, LSD, psychedelic mushrooms and other hallucinogenic substances — at an apartment he was renting last summer in Moon Township.
At the time of his arrest, he was a student at Robert Morris University, but according to a school spokesman, he is not enrolled this summer nor in the fall. Citing federal law, RMU spokesman Mark Houser declined to note the reason for his discontinued education.
According to court documents, FBI and other federal agents went to the apartment last summer as part of the investigation into his parents, Stephanie and Scott Roskovski, and the alleged embezzlement of $1.3 million from Butler Health System.
Stephanie Roskovski was the chief operating officer for BHS from 2011 to 2017 and her husband was fired from his job as a detective in the Butler County District Attorney's Office in 2018.
The couple was indicted in April by a federal grand jury on fraud, embezzlement, money laundering and other charges.
