UPDATE: Brittany Trausi was sentenced this morning to 2-4 years probation for each charge, which will run concurrently. She was also ordered to pay $1750 in fines, along with court costs and restitution.
Meanwhile, Joshua Chew’s sentencing was continued to a later date.
WHAT WE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED
A number of criminal defendants will be sentenced today in Indiana County Court, and one of them has multiple cases on the docket.
25-year-old Brittany Marie Trausi of Coral has three sentencing proceedings against her today and six probation revocation hearings on previous retail theft cases.
Trausi pleaded guilty last month to abuse of a corpse in a fatal drug overdose case. She and three other people were accused of dumping the body of 22-year-old Tyler Eckenroad of Commodore along a dirt road in Cherryhill Township in April of 2016. Eckenroad and the four suspects had been partying at an apartment on Grandview Avenue in Indiana in April of 2016. The suspects awoke to find Eckenroad dead of a heroin overdose, but instead of calling 911, they wrapped his body in a blanket and loaded him into a car, leaving it along a road near the Two Lick Creek Reservoir, more than six miles from the apartment.
Trausi also pleaded guilty to six offenses related to her arrest. She will be sentenced for resisting arrest, disorderly conduct (fighting), recklessly endangering, criminal mischief, attempted theft, and attempted obstruction of justice. And in yet another case, she’ll be sentenced for retail theft.
27-year-old Joshua Chew, who has had numerous addresses including Blairsville and Armagh, will be sentenced for felony possession with intent to deliver a conttrolled substance, and in a second case, for conspiracy to that same offense.
Other defendants scheduled to be sentenced today include Selena Jo Smith of Blairsville, for possession of a controlled substance after a probation revocation; Annique Brewer of Harrisburg, for two contraband infractions, plus two possession offenses; David Eberhardt of Portersville, for receiving stolen property; and Adam Drylie of Creekside, for receiving stolen property and possession a device for counterfeit or altering access.
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