FRANKLIN COUNTY — Several defendants in criminal cases waived their right to preliminary hearings in the county’s Magisterial District Central Court. Not guilty pleas were automatically entered in the cases, which were then sent to the county’s Court of Common Pleas.
The cases include:
Todd Andrew Rogers, 35, of Chambersburg, is charged with corruption of a minor, a third degree felony, and indecent assault, a second degree misdemeanor.
Police allege in charging documents that he “cuddled” with a 15-year old girl living in his home when he went to her room to wake her up in the mornings.
He is free on $200,000 bail. His mandatory arraignment on the charges is scheduled for 1 p.m. Sept. 4 before Judge Angela Krom.
Antonio Mark Barksdale, 30, of Waynesboro, is charged with making a materially false written statement when purchasing a firearm, a third degree felony, and making an unsworn falsification to authorities, a third degree misdemeanor.
Police allege that Barksdale checked the “no” box on a form when he bought a firearm from Dick’s Sporting Goods in Guilford Township on March 9.
By checking that box on the form, Barksdale was indicating he had never been convicted of a felony when in fact his criminal history showed a 2008 arrest in New York for reckless endangerment in connection with a drive-by shooting incident. Police said Barksdale pleaded guilty to the charge and given a probation sentence.
Barksdale waived his preliminary hearing on Tuesday. His formal arraignment is scheduled for August 14.
William Lee Rose, 26, of Chambersburg, is charged with one count each of criminal trespass and strangulation. Both are second degree felonies.
Police allege in charging documents that Rose illegally entered an ex-girlfriend’s home in the middle of the night on July 23 through an unlocked window. The woman and her current boyfriend woke as he stood at the foot of the bed staring at them, according to an affidavit filed in the case.
The woman and new boyfriend made him leave, but then an altercation broke out on the patio outside, where Rose allegedly grabbed the woman by the throat and started choking her.
Rose is in Franklin County Jail unable to post $50,000 bail. His mandatory arraignment on the charges is set for August 14.
Jessica Renee Burnery, 26, of Chambersburg, is charged with concealment of the whereabouts of a child, a third degree felony, corruption of a minor, a first degree misdemeanor, and providing a false report to authorities, a third degree felony.
Police allege in charging documents that Burnery hid a runaway minor for a month this summer, even though she was a runaway. She also allegedly provided the runaway with alcohol and lied to police about knowing where the whereabouts of the child.
Burnery’s preliminary hearing, originally on the preliminary hearing list this week, is now scheduled for August 6.
She is free on $100,000 bail.
