Plea Court is scheduled for several defendants before Indiana County President Judge William Martin today, including an Indiana man who led police on a pursuit last spring and ended up in critical condition at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.
The incident on St. Patrick’s Day began when a state trooper attempted to pull over 59-year-old Charles Randolph for running a stop sign leading onto Philadelphia Street in Indiana. Randolph is accused of trying twice to hit the police cruiser as he fled, and then trying to ram another cruiser minutes later on Oakland Avenue. The chase ended when a police maneuver forced him to crash into the concrete base of a sign along Oakland Avenue, and his pickup truck caught fire. He had been removed from the truck before the flames erupted. Randolph is charged with two counts each of aggravated assault and simple assault, and recklessly endangering, along with fleeing and eluding and multiple traffic violations.
Also scheduled for Plea Court is 22-year-old Sean Painter of Homer City, who is charged with two counts each of forgery and theft by deception in May of this year.
36-year-old Matthew Mason Boxler of Saltsburg is scheduled to enter pleas in two cases, one from June in which he is charged with burglary, criminal trespass, three counts each of theft from a vehicle, theft, and receiving stolen property, possession, and criminal mischief. The other case is for possession of a controlled substance and of drug paraphernalia. In April, Boxler was found inside the restroom of Canal Park in Saltsburg with 32 stamp bags of heroin, several of them empty.
Doyle McAdams of Homer City will plead to charges of theft and receiving stolen property. Rebecca O’Neil of Homer City will plead to the same offenses in two cases, plus additional charges of conspiracy and corruption of minors, and retail theft in a third case. Two of those incidents were in April and the other in May.
