Pennsylvania complaint
Forgery, firearms, and false-identification charges from the Altoona arrest
The original Pennsylvania police complaint filed after the December 9, 2024 arrest.
As originally filed · December 9, 2024
One of three prosecutions
The Pennsylvania case
Commonwealth v. Mangione
Commonwealth v. Mangione is the Pennsylvania prosecution that followed Luigi Mangione's December 9, 2024 arrest in Altoona. Police filed forgery, firearms, and false-identification charges the same day, and the case moved to the Blair County Court of Common Pleas. An October 15, 2025 order paused the case while Mangione was held in New York for the federal and state prosecutions.
Case at a glance
- Caption
- Commonwealth v. Mangione
- Court
- Blair County Court of Common Pleas
- Case numbers
- CP-07-CR-0002724-2024 · common pleas MJ-24102-CR-0000623-2024 · magisterial
- Charged
- December 9, 2024
Where it stood
The October 15, 2025 order found Mangione unavailable to appear while he was held in New York and dismissed the pending hearing requests without prejudice.
No further hearings appeared on the docket after that order; a November 25, 2025 notice again reported him unavailable for a personal appearance.
The forgery, firearms, and false-identification charges from the December 9, 2024 complaint stood unchanged in the public filings.
The custody fight
Why the Blair County case stopped moving in late 2025.
Through 2025, the Commonwealth tried to bring Mangione from federal custody in New York to Blair County for his pretrial hearings. It petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus (a request that a court rule on a person's custody or order them produced), and on September 9, 2025 the court issued a writ ad prosequendum, an order asking another jurisdiction to produce a defendant for court, together with a transport order under the writ.
The federal government declined the writ. The Commonwealth reported the denial on September 17, 2025 and later filed the federal letter itself; the defense responded. The court's October 15, 2025 order then found Mangione unavailable to appear and dismissed the pending hearing requests without prejudice; a November 2025 notice again reported him unavailable for a personal appearance.
The charges
The charges from the December 2024 arrest complaint. No order in the public filings changed them.
Court dates
Dates from the Blair County docket.
- No further court dates appeared on the docket after the October 15, 2025 order.
- Bail hearing — Blair County — December 12, 2024. Read the official record
Key documents
The main Blair County filings, from the arrest complaint to the orders that paused the case. Each entry links to the official copy on the Pennsylvania courts' site.
Police criminal complaint
A charging document that begins a criminal case by stating the alleged offenses; in many courts it precedes an indictment.
Fugitive complaint
A charging document that begins a criminal case by stating the alleged offenses; in many courts it precedes an indictment.
Defense petition for habeas corpus and bail
A request asking a court to rule on the lawfulness of a person's custody, or to produce them before the court.
Writ ad prosequendum (request to produce the defendant for court)
A court order directing that a person in one jurisdiction's custody be produced to face proceedings in another.
Commonwealth's notice of the federal writ denial, with letter
A filing that formally informs the court and parties of a fact or an action.
Order of October 15, 2025, pausing further hearings
A written directive issued by a judge.
Notice of the defendant's unavailability (November 2025)
A filing that formally informs the court and parties of a fact or an action.
Where these records come from
The Pennsylvania records on this page come from these sources.
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The Pennsylvania courts publish the Blair County filings on a public page for this case.
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Pennsylvania docket search (UJS portal)
The state docket search used to confirm Pennsylvania case numbers and status by hand.
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Defense team's document site · unofficial
Maintained by Mangione's defense team. A useful document index, labeled unofficial here because it is published by a party to the case.
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News reports · unofficial
Used when a courtroom development is public but no document is posted online. Most common in the New York case, whose courts post no filings online.