Bail posted in Kirby Park hit-and-run case, lowered on second drunken driving offense

WILKES-BARRE — All Shahiyd Deen needs is $10,000 to earn his release on bail from the Luzerne County Correctional Facility.

Deen, 29, of North Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, is facing separate criminal cases before two Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas judges with different amounts of bail set by two magisterial district judges.

Deen has already posted $50,000 bail on the most serious case involving a hit and run when he allegedly struck a then 13-year-old boy in the parking lot of Kirby Park in Wilkes-Barre, but remained jailed on $100,000 bail on a drunken driving offense in Edwardsville.

During a bail reduction hearing before Judge Michael T. Vough on Friday, Assistant District Attorney Frank J. Artiz Jr. strongly opposed modifying Deen’s bail on the drunken driving charge citing the serious offense Deen faces related to the Kirby Park hit and run.

Attorney Lawrence Kansky, standing in for Attorney John B. Pike, called $100,000 bail for a drunken driving charge “highly excessive,” noting the aggravated assault by vehicle case stemming from the Kirby Park alleged incident had lower bail imposed.

Vough modified Deen’s bail on the DUI charge to $10,000, noting Deen has already posted $50,000 bail for the Kirby Park case.

Vough is overseeing Deen’s drunken driving case while Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr. is presiding over Deen’s hit and run case. It was also noted Pike is advocating for Deen on the separate cases.

Edwardsville police in court records allege Deen crashed into a parked vehicle in the Eagle Ridge apartment complex on Beverly Drive on July 29. Police allege Deen had a blood alcohol level of .24 percent after the crash, court records say.

Wilkes-Barre police charged Deen with felony counts of aggravated assault by vehicle, aggravated assault by vehicle while DUI, accidents involving personal injury and other offenses when he allegedly struck Elijah Haney, 14, of Kingston, in the parking lot of Kirby Park on Aug. 5.

Court records allege Deen was doing “burnouts” when he struck Haney and later reported his vehicle was stolen.

Haney suffered severe head injuries and was hospitalized for several weeks at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.

Deen’s next court appearance is scheduled for May 5.