The Montgomery County woman accused of being intoxicated when she caused a crash that killed two Pennsylvania State Police troopers and a pedestrian posted bail on Wednesday.
Jayana Tanae Webb, 21, of Eagleville in Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, has been in the custody of the Philadelphia Department of Corrections since March awaiting trial on charges of third-degree murder, manslaughter of a law enforcement officer in the second degree, homicide by vehicle while DUI, homicide by vehicle, involuntary manslaughter, and reckless endangerment.
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According to court records reviewed by LevittownNow.com, Webb has been held on bail set at 10 percent of $600,000. On Wednesday, she posted that bail with the city court system.
A pre-trial conference in the case is set for next Wednesday before Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Lillian Ransom.
Earlier this year, a judge dropped the third-degree murder charge over what she believed was a lack of evidence and charges, but Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office urged another judge to reinstate the charge. The judge at a hearing in August reinstated the charge.
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Krasner’s prosecutors had asked the judge to revoke Webb’s bail, but the judge denied that. The judge instead set it at 10 percent of $600,000.
Bail is not designed to be a punishment, but it is to ensure the defendant shows up for court or is not a threat to the community.
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Troopers Martin F. Mack III, 33, of Bristol Borough, and Branden T. Sisca, 29, of Montgomery County, were killed when Webb hit a state police patrol SUV on I-95 southbound by the stadium complex in Philadelphia as they secured the pedestrian – Reyes Rivera Oliveras, 28, of Allentown – who was on the highway just before 1 a.m. on March 21.
The force of the crash threw the victims across the highway, state police said.
The troopers and Oliveras were killed.
Credit: Natalie Grimmer/LevittownNow.com
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Authorities have previously testified in court that Webb was tweeting at the time of the crash, she had marijuana in her system, she had been pulled over by the troopers for speeding minutes earlier but was released due to a call for a person on the road, and her blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit at the time.
Mack and Sisca spent their entire state police careers assigned to the patrol section of Troop K in Philadelphia.
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The fallen lawmen were remembered at large funeral services following their deaths. Mack’s funeral mass happened in Tullytown Borough.
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