Ford Cliff Woman Resentenced This Morning

A Ford Cliff woman that held three local pharmacy employees and a store patron at gunpoint in January 2012 will be back in court at 9AM.

Christine Boylstein attempted to steal two narcotic prescription drugs morphine and fentanyl - from the downtown Kittanning Rite-Aid Pharmacy before Kittanning Borough Police successfully subdued her. She already pled guilty to the most-serious crime of felony robbery with the threat of serious injury in November of that year and was sentenced to 5-15 years in the Department of Corrections due to mental illness.

However, earlier this year, Boylstein was back in an Armstrong County courtroom due to a Motion for Post Conviction Collateral Relief and several pieces of evidence from the original crime scene were filed.

At 9AM, Boylstein will be resentenced at the Armstrong County Courthouse – just a few blocks from the crime scene – in downtown Kittanning.

An alleged regional drug trafficker arrested in Kittanning earlier this year will also be of the more-than a dozen sentenced in court.

Wilfredo Soto, Jr., 23 of New Kensington was arrested by ARMNET (Armstrong County Narcotics Task Force) agents in January after agents conducted a controlled purchase of heroin from Soto, Jr. along Johnston Avenue. Agents learned of an additional warrant in Westmoreland County calling for his arrest after their operation.

At the time of Soto, Jr’s arrest, he was found in possession of several hundred stamp bags of suspected heroin and several thousand dollars, including funds used in the controlled purchase by ARMNET agents thanks to assistance from a confidential informant.

News archives show that Soto, Jr. was also charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia in Ford City Borough for an incident that occurred along 5th Avenue the morning of November 13, 2012.

Soto, Jr. pled guilty to felony possession with the right to deliver heroin in September before Armstrong County Judge James Panchik and is also scheduled for sentencing in Courtroom 2.