Criminal Call is scheduled in Indiana County Court, including some defendants who are involved in high profile cases and one who has more than two dozen theft cases against him.
Among the defendants scheduled today is Matthew McNevin, the Rayne Township man who in February pleaded guilty to third degree murder and aggravated assault in the shooting death of a man and the wounding of a woman last year during the IUPattys event in Indiana. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on May 11th for that case, but he has two other criminal filings against him for his behavior during his time in jail. He’s charged with institutional vandalism and fighting, plus assaulting a guard at the Indiana County Jail last fall, and D.A. Pat Dougherty said in February that those cases would likely be resolved before his sentencing next month.
The Criminal Call list today also includes 20-year-old Matthew Ohler Jr. of Indiana, who is charged in relation to the same shooting as the one in which McNevin pleaded guilty. Ohler is charged with conspiracy to criminal homicide, conspiracy to aggravated assault, and two counts of conspiracy to reckless endangerment. He’s accused of supplying the gun McNevin used in the shootings, and of riding in a car with McNevin as he made a social media post saying he was going to shoot his victim. After the shooting, Ohler was found hiding behind the Venice Pizza shop nearby. Police later said that he is a dealer in stolen guns, and supplied the pistol McNevin used. Ohler also face drug charges in a separate case that is on today’s list as well.
19-year-old Nathan Price, also known as Nathaniel Price, is on today’s Criminal Call list. He is one of two co-defendants in the murders of a Cherryhill Township couple at their apartment in October of 2016. Both Price and Justin Stevenson are accused of killing Timothy Gardner and Jacqueline Brink during a marijuana deal involving Gardner. Brink was killed, allegedly because she was a witness.
And 27-year-old Robert Dale Bender of Indiana is scheduled for Criminal Call for 28 separate theft filings, all but one of them for theft from a vehicle.
