Sentencing is scheduled today for defendants in numerous criminal cases, including an Indiana woman who pleaded guilty in two cases. One set of charges against 26-year-old Francise Reed was for using drugs in a car while sitting beside her 6-month-old son. The other case was for selling three cars and some wood that she did not own. In the drug case, she pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of children after a police officer observed her being injected with heroin by 25-year-old Nicholas Murphy, with their baby sitting between them in the back seat of their car in a store parking lot. In the other case, she pleaded guilty to a single count of theft. Murphy’s criminal case is still in the court system, currently listed as inactive.
Another defendant scheduled for sentencing today is 31-year-old William Cassatt Jr. of Homer City, a former United High School bus driver who hired a 16-year-old girl who’d been a passenger on his bus to baby-sit his children after the school year ended in the summer of 2016. Police said he had improper physical contact with the girl at several locations. They were alerted by the victim’s father after he found inappropriate messages on her cell phone. Cassatt pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of corruption of minors, with 31 other counts not prosecuted.
There are six defendants who will be sentenced for possession with intent to deliver, including:
- 32-year-old Brian Meeker Jr. of Indiana, who in a separate case also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possession with intent.
- 43-year-old Robert Ohler Jr. of Ford City.
- 47-year-old Michael Shawn Young of New Florence.
- 35-year-old Jamie Grubb of Indiana.
- 26-year-old Keybira Larica Mo Gross, for whom no address is given.
- 26-year-old Dorian Goosby of Indiana.
- 39-year-old Toby Keith Clowser of Indiana
- 31-year-old Joshua Duffy of Josephine, who also pleaded guilty to theft.
30-year-old Alan Burnheimer Jr. of Blairsville will be sentenced for criminal use of a communication facility, with non-prosecution for possession with intent to deliver.
25-year-old Marybeth Roush of Indiana will be sentenced for endangering the welfare of children. Police said she and a male companion both overdosed on heroin while they were supposed to be caring for a 6-year-old girl in February in White Township.
Defendants scheduled to be sentenced for theft today include:
- 20-year-old Chad Orelien of Douglasville, PA, who also pleaded guilty in two other cases, for false identification to law enforcement in a traffic case, and for accidents involving death or personal injury, failure to stop and render aid, failure to notify police of an accident, and reckless driving for a wreck last December.
- 36-year-old Robert McKendrick II of Indiana, who pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property in two separate cases.
- 35-year-old Jessica Marie Steele of Spring Church, for retail theft.
- 20-year-old Brandon Moss of Linesville, PA, for theft, but with fourteen other charges not prosecuted including one for a firearms violation.
22-year-old Marcus Newsome of Lansdowne, PA, will be sentenced for robbery and 19-year-old Nikita Gary of Philadelphia for terroristic threats, both for the same case, which originated last April in the Eberly parking lot at IUP.
There are two Plea Court appearances scheduled today. 57-year-old Ray Moore of Apollo is due in court to answer a charge of accidents involving dearth or personal injury. The crash occurred on June 6th. And 22-year-old Daniel Young Sang Deem of Indiana will answer charges of fleeing or attempting to elude police and 31 related traffic offenses.
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