A Mifflin County man charged with killing a man in a head-on collision along an East Lampeter Township road while he was driving under the influence of multiple drugs and alcohol will have his case proceed to county court after waiving his preliminary hearing earlier this month. 

Logan Christopher Yeater, of Armagh Township, waived his preliminary hearing before Judge Denise Commins on June 1 on one count of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, one count of homicide by vehicle, three counts of driving under the influence, a single count each of tampering with evidence, two misdemeanor drug offenses and five summary traffic offenses.

Yeater, 29, is accused of crashing head-on into a vehicle driven by 39-year-old Edward Roberts, Jr. in the 2300 block of Old Philadelphia Pike in East Lampeter Township in July 2025. Roberts, a resident of Middletown in Dauphin County, was pronounced dead at the scene after first responders attempted life-saving measures.

A blood draw taken less than an hour after the collision revealed that Yeater had multiple drugs including methamphetamine in his system at the time. 

Statements from multiple eyewitnesses and evidence collected from the roadway indicated that Yeater was driving erratically before the crash and had crossed into oncoming traffic moments before the collision, striking Roberts’s vehicle head-on during the late evening hours of July 24, 2025. The impact of the collision was so great that it caused Roberts’s vehicle to spin out of control.

Police found a bag of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia hidden near where Yeater was sitting as police questioned him. Body-worn camera footage from an officer who responded to the scene showed Yeater rummaging through a backpack and appearing to conceal the drugs in the location where they were later found.

Multiple drug paraphernalia were also found inside the vehicle as it was being inspected. 

In a later statement to police Yeater said he has two previous DUI arrests and that he knows he cannot “kill someone and get away with it.”

Yeater is currently free on $100,000 unsecured bail.

East Lampeter Township Police Officer Emily Daminger filed the charges.

All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.