Preliminary hearings will be held today at district courts in Indiana County.
Included among those preliminary hearings is William Spencer-Schach North, a 21-year-old man from Pittsburgh, who was caught with drugs during a traffic stop in West Wheatfield Township on April 14th. State Police had clocked North driving his jeep at 80 Miles an hour in a 55 mile an hour zone. When police pulled over the car, they saw what they described as a “tall plastic smoking device” along with a metal grinder and suspected marijuana in a garbage bag on the back seat. North faces charges of possession of a small amount of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and summary speeding charges. He will be in the court of District Judge Jennifer Rega today.
Also back in court today is Alicia Jarvie, an Indiana woman who is facing several charges related to forgery. She is charged with one count each of felony forgery and misdemeanor theft by deception and bad checks in each of four incidents that happened on December 31st of last year, and January 24th, and February 10th and 26th of this year. She was in court yesterday for formal arraignments on similar charges in several cases. Jarvie is also accused of hindering law enforcement after giving them fake information about the whereabouts of Johnathan Thoma after a police pursuit. Jarvie was in the car with Thoma as he tried to elude police, and in his efforts to lose the police, he allegedly drove right at two cruisers in an attempt to crash into them. That case is being handled in Blair County courts. Meanwhile Jarvie is due today before District Judge Susanne Steffee for her preliminary arraignment.
