Mother & son arrested after violent confrontation with Pittsburgh police

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Investigators say police tried to arrest Kyles for heroin possession on McIntyre Avenue, but he struggled and attempted to escape. Kyles got into a physical altercation with two officers, officials said.

He’s accused of punching and kicking one of the officers several times, and head-butting the other.

Eventually, Wade came outside and Kyles handed her $1,000 in cash, police said. Wade refused to give the money to police.

Police said they eventually got Kyles and Wade under control.

During a search, police said they confiscated 82 stamp bags of suspected heroin marked “SNOOP DOGG.”

Kyles was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, possession of prohibited substances, possession with intent to deliver, tampering with evidence and resisting arrest.

Wade was charged with obstructing administration of law, tampering with evidence, endangering the welfare of a child, hindering apprehension and aggravated assault.

“I almost lost my mind. I couldn’t believe my mom was in the backseat of a car,” said Mercedes Pennix.

Pennix is Kyles’ sister and Wade’s daughter. She doesn’t dispute the charges against her brother, but says the child endangerment charges against her mother aren’t warranted.

“They threw her in the bushes and just arrested her. They hit her with child endangerment, but my mom’s not a monster. She was babysitting my son overnight,” Pennix said. “I was five seconds away and I know the neighbor came and got him so they wouldn’t have just left my baby. Child endangerment is out the window.”

Pennix believes her mother did not put her grandson in danger.

“She didn’t deserve to be down in county last night. I need her to come home,” Pennix said.