A progressive district judge opposed to cash bail freed a man arrested at the bus station this week with 450,000 doses of fentanyl.
That's enough to kill every person in the City of Pittsburgh.
In response, the District Attorney's Office is asking a common pleas judge to set bail for 27-year-old Yan Carlos Cepeda.
In a statement, DA Stephen Zappala said his office was not notified judge Xander Orenstein released the man in allegedly in possession of a drug responsible for the deaths of almost two people a day in Allegheny County.
The decision is also being denounced by the Democratic nominee for District Attorney, Matt Dugan.
“This was the wrong decision, this is a wrong bail decision,” said Dugan.
Orenstein represents Lawrenceville, Bloomfield and Polish Hill.
Zappala is running for re-election on the Republican ticket in November.