Pike County / Wayne County, PA — Gustave Debree IV, 52, of Lakeville, has been sitting in Pike County Prison without bail since mid-March, and the defense has pushed his preliminary hearing back four times. It is now scheduled for May 27, 2026 — nearly three months after a joint Pike-Wayne county investigation led to his arrest on charges that he delivered cocaine while illegally possessing six firearms.
His alleged co-conspirator, Ryan James Cartwright, 37, of Hawley, has already had his drug trafficking charges bound over to Pike County Court of Common Pleas, where the case is awaiting a pretrial conference before President Judge Gregory H. Chelak. The court increased Cartwright’s bail from $100,000 to $175,000 on April 7, with an order requiring the bond be secured solely by…