STATE POLICE ARREST SCOTTDALE MAN ON HOMICIDE CHARGES

State police have arrested a Scottdale man yesterday on homicide charges related to a fatal crash in 2021.  The Trib reports that 38-year-old Earl Brooks Gilbert IV is charged in connection with the death of 35-year-old Brandalyn Pomaibo.  State police say Gilbert drove south on Water Street in East Huntingdon on September 21st when his pickup truck drifted off the road and started spin into oncoming traffic, colliding with a car going the other way at 7:15 PM.  Pomaibo was a passenger in the truck at the time.  Police said that his blood tested positive for cocaine and fentanyl.  A preliminary hearing is set for March 19th.