EVANS CITY — A Butler Township man had fentanyl in his system when he fatally struck a pedestrian with his car on a Connoquenessing Township road earlier this summer, according to a state trooper’s testimony at a Wednesday, Sept. 3, preliminary hearing.

Robert D. Pflugh, 58, saw a felony homicide by vehicle charge and two misdemeanor DUI charges added to his existing charges of felony homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence and misdemeanor DUI, which stem from the July 31 crash in Connoquenessing Township that killed Donald B. Phipps, 65.

Pflugh entered a plea of not guilty in the preliminary hearing before District Judge Amy Marcinkiewicz, but all five charges were held for court.

Cynthia Gregor, the former next-door neighbor of Phipps, testified she was sitting on

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