Jury selection is scheduled today for the trial of a Cherryhill Township man accused of threatening his neighbor with a pistol during an altercation over weed-pulling last year. 66-year-old Thomas Michael Burkhart is charged with aggravated assault, terroristic threats, recklessly endangering, and criminal trespass for an incident on June 28th of last year.
According to police and the victim, David Neff was weeding his garden and one of the weeds he tossed on his property made it across the fence onto Burkhart’s. Neff and Burkhart have had issues in the past, and in this case, according to the prosecution, Burkhart jumped over the fence and confronted Neff, pulling a pistol out and threatening repeatedly to “blow Neff’s head off”. Fearing for his life, Neff then started punching Burkhart. State troopers arrived and took Burkhart into custody.
Jury selection is also scheduled for 23-year-old Jacob Louden of Pittsburgh, who is charged with felony aggravated indecent assault and misdemeanor indecent assault. Indiana Borough police accuse him of sexually assaulting a woman last November while he was intoxicated; so intoxicated, he claimed, that he did not remember it happening.
