Patrick Russin, the man who became derisively known as \u201cPat the Rat\u201d for testifying against notorious killer Hugo Selenski, pleaded guilty Tuesday to disorderly conduct charges.<\/p>\n
Russin, 56, of Dallas, had been charged with resisting arrest and ethnic intimidation stemming from his arrest at the Dallas Twp. police headquarters on April 11, 2024.<\/p>\n
According to prosecutors, Russin went to the headquarters to pick up some property related to a previous incident when police discovered he had a federal arrest warrant in a drug-trafficking case. Russin began to struggle with police and told a Hispanic officer to \u201cgo back to the border where your cousins came from,\u201d according to the charges.<\/p>\n
In exchange for Russin\u2019s plea to disorderly conduct charges, prosecutors withdrew the resisting arrest and ethnic intimidation counts as well as drug possession charges in an unrelated case.<\/p>\n
Luzerne County Judge David W. Lupas accepted the plea and immediately sentenced Russin to two to six months in jail. The sentence will be served concurrently with a seven-year federal prison sentence Russin is serving for dealing methamphetamine in the drug-trafficking case.<\/p>\n
Russin acquired the \u201cPat the Rat\u201d sobriquet after testifying that he shot and killed two drug dealers during a crack deal at Selenski\u2019s Kingston Twp. home in 2003.<\/p>\n
He was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison on third-degree murder and robbery charges, and was released on parole in January 2016.<\/p>\n
Selenski, 52, was beat the murder charges in that case but was later convicted in another double-murder case. He is serving life in prison without parole at State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Russin, the man who became derisively known as \u201cPat the Rat\u201d for testifying against notorious killer Hugo…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":745150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,356,1596,728,95967,50,2830,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-745149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-courts","tag-dallas","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116447942549634132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}