Westmoreland County’s Criminal Call list today included the name of Ty Holler, the 24-year-old former IUP volunteer assistant football coach accused in a “sexting” case involving two Mount Pleasant boys. That Criminal Call appearance has been cancelled, as has a hearing on Holler’s pretrial motions, and the trial itself. Instead, he will enter a plea to two counts each of communication with a minor for purposes of sexual abuse, hiring or using a minor to assist in a crime, and corruption of minors.
The 24-year-old Holler, who lives in Latrobe, is accused of sending texts to the two former high school football players, who were 15 and 16 years old at the time in 2014 and 2015, telling them about his sex life at IUP and asking for details about theirs. Investigators say he also sent the boys pictures of a topless woman, telling them she wanted to be with them if they would send explicit pictures of themselves.
Holler has claimed that a former girlfriend sent the texts while he was sleeping and that he no longer has her contact information. He testified at his preliminary hearing that he and the woman met the older boy at a bar near IUP and the boy later sent an unsolicited nude photo of himself and a video of himself having relations with a girl. In August, his attorney filed a Writ of Habeas Corpus seeking to have the charges dismissed, a motion to suppress evidence, and a motion for additional discovery.
Holler’s trial was scheduled to begin January 8th. He will instead submit to Plea Court on January 23rd.
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