Criminal Justice and Courts

Luzerne County District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce announced that 24‑year‑old Saleh Edwards of Wilkes‑Barre, Pennsylvania has been charged with criminal attempt to possess or manufacture weapons of mass destruction after a neighbor’s tip prompted a joint counterterrorism investigation by the DA’s office, Wilkes‑Barre City Police and the FBI. Agents executed a court‑authorized search at Edwards’ Saint Clair Street home on Sunday, after which he was arraigned, denied bail as a danger to the public, and ordered held in the county jail while key court records remain sealed under a 60‑day order ahead of a tentative Jan. 5 preliminary hearing.