The Indiana County Court docket is very busy today, with sentencing scheduled for ten defendants, including Charles Cook.
On October 8th, the 65-year-old Cook was found not guilty in the 1991 shooting death of Myrtle McGill of Indiana. But eight days later, he pleaded no contest to five counts of felony criminal use of a communication facility for offenses committed while he was incarcerated at the Indiana County Jail. The state attorney general’s office, which prosecuted both cases, confirms that Cook was arranging drug deliveries with a girlfriend using the jail’s phones.
Also scheduled to be sentenced today are DUI defendants Justin Ray Ruby of Derry; Matthew Kirk Wiles of Indiana; Brian Scott Rainey of Homer City; Donald James Mann III of Indiana; Jerry Robert Pierce III of La Jose, Clearfield County; Nancy Jean Penrose of Robinson; Leslie DeCharles Evans of Homer City; Vernon Fred Embry of Indiana; and Charles William Bennett of Indiana.
Leslie DeCharles Evans will also plead and be sentenced in three other DUI cases.
Seven other defendants are scheduled to plead and be sentenced for DUI, some of them in multiple cases. One other defendant will be sentenced for possession of a controlled substance.
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