Around the Rivers

Around The Rivers: A Coach's New Start, A Drug Dealer Jailed, A Race for Virginia and A Police Legacy

Here's a review of the week's headlines from around our region's Three Rivers.

Patch noshed on hot dogs and goodies, played plenty of games and joined you under the fireworks on the Fourth of July. We hummed along to great live music, romped and raced with you in parks and, we admit it, noshed some more beside you at your home town's community festivals. We kept you abreast of developments in court cases, and we made you smile with peeks at so-cute critters caught frolicking for our cameras. Come on, folks -- when's the last time you had a front-row view of . . . a worm race? Patch brought you plenty of other stories as well from Around the Rivers over the past week. Among them:   Moon District Lays Off Staff Members, Cafeteria Workers After reaching a four-year contract with its teachers union, the Moon Area School …

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Judge Sentences Former 'Infamous Choppers' Owner to Prison

John Duzicky ordered to serve six to 12 years in a state penitentiary.

John Duzicky’s voice cracked as he apologized to a Beaver County Court judge for leaving the state and failing to return for his sentencing on drug charges in January. “I was scared. I was backed into a corner and did not know where to go,” Duzicky, 39, formerly of Aleppo, said Wednesday before his sentencing. But Beaver County Common Pleas Judge John P. Dohanich told Duzicky that he should also be apologizing to his family members, friends, attorney and the prosecution. All of them showed up that day, only to be disappointed by his absence, the judge said. “You let them down . . . you let me down,” Dohanich said. “I let you out on bond . . . and then you didn’t show up. That’s not right, Mr. Duzicky . . . and because you didn’t show up, …

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Aleppo Man Awaits Sentencing for Drug Trafficking

Authorities extradite John Duzicky to Pennsylvania last month after fleeing the state.

An Aleppo man who is the former owner of the Infamous Choppers motorcycle shop remains lodged in the Beaver County Jail while he awaits sentencing on drug charges. John Duzicky, 39, of Timber Lane, pleaded guilty Jan. 28 to charges of maintaining a corrupt organization and two counts of possession with the intent to deliver a controlled substance, according to the Beaver County Sheriff’s Office. While on bond and awaiting sentencing, however, he fled to Arizona until authorities located and extradited him. Duzicky was one of 12 suspected drug dealers linked to a drug-trafficking organization that agents with the state Attorney General's office said shipped thousands of pounds of marijuana from Arizona into Western Pennsylvania. According …

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