Sep. 11—HANOVER TWP. — A man awaiting trial in Luzerne County Court for his alleged role in a murder plot was captured on a drug trafficking warrant following a brief standoff in Hanover Township Thursday morning.
Dashawn William Nelson, 30, was captured at a residence on Phillips Street in Breslau, according to court records.
Police in Pittston City obtained an arrest warrant for Nelson, charging him with two counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and one count each of child endangerment and criminal use of a communication facility.
Nelson was arraigned on the warrant by District Judge Kyle Halesey of Hanover Township. Nelson was jailed without bail as Halesey deemed him a danger to society.
Despite being jailed without bail, the Luzerne County district attorney’s office Thursday filed a petition seeking to revoke Nelson’s bail related to the alleged murder plot.
Nelson had been free since July 12, 2024, when he posted $200,000 bail on charges of criminal solicitation to commit criminal homicide, criminal conspiracy to commit criminal homicide, criminal use of communication facility and three firearm offenses.
Nelson, along with Gregory Thomas Warren, 42, of Bronx, N.Y., and Gregory Duclaire, 41, of Plymouth, were charged by county detectives and the state Office of Attorney General with plotting to kill Elijah Jones, 28, of Wilkes-Barre, in January 2024, according to court records.
Court records say Jones was targeted in the plot for retaliation of a shooting at a business Warren owned on South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, nearly three years ago.
Trial for Nelson and Warren is scheduled for late September before Judge Michael T. Vough, while Duclaire’s trial is set for November.