UPDATE: A warrant has been issued for Charles Ernest Lloyd III as he did not show up for his sentencing hearing this morning.
Matthew Pommer was sentenced to 1 and a half to 3 years in state prison and over $800 in fines for his guilty pleas.
Sentencing hearings for Olivia DePaul and Frederick Johnson II were continued.
WHAT WE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED
Several defendants will be sentenced in Indiana County Court today. Included among them is 22-year-old Matthew Charles Pommer of Saltsburg, who pleaded guilty in March to homicide by vehicle, aggravated assault by vehicle, and driving under the influence. Related offenses including homicide by vehicle while DUI, four additional charges of aggravated assault while DUI, and numerous traffic violations will not be prosecuted.
On June 5th last year, Pommer’s vehicle crashed head-on into a tree along Saltsburg Road in Conemaugh Township, killing one of his four passengers, 21-year-old Luke White. The others had suffered serious injuries. The accident happened after a field party the five had been attending nearby.
45-year-old Charles Ernest Lloyd III will be sentenced for a no contest plea to a second degree felony charge of aggravated indecent assault of a person less than 13 years of age.
Lloyd was originally charged in 2015 with more than 200 sexual offenses, but the majority of those were withdrawn. He pleaded guilty to the single offense in exchange for non prosecution on 22 other offenses, including four counts of rape forcible compulsion and two counts of rape of a child. The incidents involved three children between 2009 and 2014 at a home in Canoe Township. Since pleading guilty last October, Lloyd has been evaluated for classification under the state’s Megan’s Law provision, which will be part of today’s sentencing before Judge Thomas Bianco.
20-year-old Olivia DePaul of Blairsville is scheduled for sentencing for two cases…one for a guilty plea to possession with intent to deliver. That was in October of 2015, and three additional charges of possession with intent to deliver and two counts of misdemeanor possession will not be prosecuted. The other guilty plea is for conspiracy to retail theft for a case from December of last year.
Frederick Johnson II of Indiana, who will turn 58 years old on Sunday, will be sentenced for theft by failure to make required disposition of funds, with agreement for non-prosecution for theft by deception and theft of services for a case from July of 2015. It’s an insurance fraud case in which Johnson was accused of paying about $500 less for the replacement of a garage door when his insurance company had paid the full amount of $1,705. A friend had hit the old door with his vehicle and Johnson had turned it in to his own insurance company.
