More unrest in the Westmoreland Co. Sheriff's Office

GREENSBURG, Pa. — There's more unrest in the Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Office.

Sheriff Jonathan Held's new captain Travis Day was found guilty Monday after not showing up at a hearing where he was cited by Pennsylvania State Police.

This comes as the sheriff reinstated his other top deputy, Chief Patricia Fritz, who is still not allowed back on county property.

Day was placed on paid suspension after being charged with harassment by Penn State University police while at a training program for the sheriff's department just over a week ago.

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He has only been on the job since March, but a month before he was hired, he was found driving on restricted grounds of the state police barracks in Greensburg at 2 a.m.

During that conversation, Day said "he was supposed to meet somebody for rent or something... (which) just seemed rather unusual,” said Trooper Steve Limani of Pennsylvania State Police in Greensburg.

The trooper charged Day with a summary citation. He was supposed to have a hearing Monday morning, but police say he didn't show.

"He was found guilty by absentia; you do have the ability to file a summary appeal,” Limani said.

Day's family tells me they filed a motion to address the matter and called it a miscommunication.

On Friday, Chief Patricia Fritz said she was reinstated from paid suspension after being cited with harassment by county detectives. She told us she would be returning to work today, but county officials say not so fast.

Human Resources sent us a statement this morning saying it's doing its own internal investigation to find out if the county's work place behavior policy was violated by Fritz, and until the investigation is complete, she remains barred from all county property, including her office in the basement of the courthouse.

The chief and the captain are really the two people who help the sheriff run the department as a whole.

The sheriff says without them he's assuming more of their duties. He told us county HR and the solicitor are working through Captain day's situation.

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