A Southern Tier man with a history of drug-related charges has become entangled in the FBI’s probe into the death of a government witness in the Pharaoh’s strip club case.
Wellsville man accused of giving drugs to Pharaoh's witness who died
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Crystal Quinn was found dead from a lethal dose of fentanyl on Aug. 1, 2023.
An FBI agent speaks with men at the door of a home in Wellsville, as agents execute a search warrant on Aug. 8 at a nearby residence where Crystal Quinn was found dead seven days earlier.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Cooper told a judge that his office intends to file witness tampering charges against Simon P. Gogolack 39, o…
A federal public defender was appointed on Wednesday to represent a Wellsville man who has been under FBI investigation since a witness in the…
A new indictment has added two kidnapping and six witness tampering charges against an Allegany County man under federal investigation since a…
The Pharaoh’s strip club witness who died of a fentanyl overdose this summer was found to have 400 times a lethal dose of the potent opioid dr…
Joseph Barsuk Jr. was convicted of two misdemeanor sexual abuse charges and was sentenced to 60 days in prison after police accused him of mol…
"It's the government's position that Crystal Quinn was murdered, and it was staged to look like an overdose," Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas…
FBI agents executed a search warrant at an Allegany County home last week while investigating the death of a former exotic dancer who was goin…
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo, whose approval would be necessary to discharge Steven M. Cohen from the case, asked for affidavits from …
Peter Gerace Jr. now faces fresh charges that he defrauded the government of $2 million in Covid aid for Pharaoh's Gentlemen's Club in what is…
Federal prosecutors claim strip club owner Peter G. Gerace Jr. arranged sex for John L. Michalski, a State Supreme Court justice who later die…
The FBI is investigating the Aug. 1 death of Crystal Quinn, 37, at a friend's home in the Allegany County Village of Wellsville.
A key witness in the bribery, sex- and drug-trafficking trial of strip club owner Peter G. Gerace Jr. has died, underscoring the risks of any …
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