Commonwealth v. Luketic

OPINION BY

SOLANO, J.:

Appellant, Christopher Luketic, appeals from his judgment of sentence of six to twelve months’ incarceration. After careful review, we vacate the judgmént of sentence and remand for resentencing.

On September 22, 2015, Appellant and his friend Nicole Stevens were arrested for purchasing heroin from a drug dealer named Lanel Buckner. The Commonwealth described the transaction and arrest as follows:

[Police detectives] were conducting surveillance in a high-crime, high-drug trafficking area of the City of Pittsburgh, when they observed the [co-]defendant, Lanel Buckner,…