Commonwealth v. Lyons

KELLY, Judge:

Appellant, Stephen M. Lyons, appeals from the judgment of sentence imposed following his conviction of resisting arrest. 1 We affirm.

Appellant has raised four contentions of error for our consideration. Primarily, we are concerned with appellant’s first contention, i.e. whether a county parole/probation officer may lawfully request the assistance of local law enforcement personnel to effectuate a warrantless arrest of a parole violator, and if so, whether local law enforcement personnel may make such an arrest without a court order and without the physical presence of the…