Canonsburg father, son jailed
Fom left, Daniel Trybend, Kevin Trybend and Jeffrey Trybend
Jeffrey Trybend
Kevin Daniel Trybend
Daniel Raymond Trybend
CANONSBURG – A threat to ambush North Strabane Township police officers led to the arrests Monday of a Canonsburg father and son in a scheme to illegally obtain narcotic painkillers, investigators allege in court documents.
Daniel Raymond Trybend, 74, and his son Kevin Daniel Trybend, 46, were arrested by federal agents about 2:45 p.m. at a Rite Aid in Canonsburg while they were attempting to pick up a prescription for Oxycodone for Daniel Trybend’s other son while he was in jail, court documents claim.
North Strabane police said they began an investigation after learning Daniel Trybend was threatening to ambush officers in retaliation for the arrest of Jeffrey Trybend last year on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol. The alleged threat prompted police to intercept outgoing, recorded phone calls made by Jeffrey Trybend at Washington County jail, and the calls revealed a conspiracy to distribute narcotic painkillers, Canonsburg police stated in the affidavit.
North Strabane police then contacted the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s Tactical Diversion Squad in Pittsburgh, which determined Daniel and Kevin Trybend and a third party were conspiring between Oct. 19 and Tuesday to distribute Jeffrey Trybend’s prescriptions, the record alleges. Jeffrey Trybend was jailed Oct. 19 after his bond was revoked because North Strabane police had arrested him for the second time in a DUI case, online court records show.
According to police, TDS members questioned Kevin Trybend after his arrest and learned he was instructed by his father to call his brother’s physician and pretend to be his brother in order to refill Jeffrey Trybend’s prescriptions. On at least four dates, 150 Oxydodone pills were picked up.
Investigators said Kevin Trybend also confessed to picking up his brother’s prescriptions at the pharmacy at 25 E. Pike St. after paying his brother’s health insurance copayments for the drugs.
“Kevin indicated that he knew Jeffrey was in jail, what he was doing was illegal, and that the narcotics were not going to Jeffrey,” Canonsburg police stated in the affidavit.
Kevin Trybend also allegedly admitted to keeping 10 doses of the drug as payment before delivering the narcotics to the third party.
TDS members also interviewed the father, who confessed to driving his son to the Rite Aid to pick up the prescriptions knowing the drugs were not reaching his jailed son, court records allege.
The DEA turned the case over to Canonsburg police.
All three Trybends are inmates at Washington County jail. District Judge Mark Wilson set Daniel and Kevin Trybend’s bonds at $100,000 each.
Both are charged with conspiracy, drug possession with intent to deliver, criminal use of a cellphone and drug possession.
The third party in the case had not been charged as of Tuesday afternoon.