POTTSVILLE â A Pine Grove motorist is headed to state prison after admitting earlier this month to a Schuylkill County judge that he led state police on two chases in January.
Tyler J. Nornhold, 23, must serve two to four years in a state correctional institution, President Judge William E. Baldwin decided.
Nornholdâs prison time consists of consecutive sentences of one to two years in each of his two cases.
Additionally, Baldwin sentenced Nornhold to pay costs, $1,500 in fines, $100 to the Substance Abuse Education Fund and $50 to the Criminal Justice Enhancement Account, and submit a DNA sample to law enforcement authorities.
POTTSVILLE â Some Schuylkill County prisoners will continue to serve their sentences elsewhere, as the commissioners on Wednesday approved an agreement to send inmates to Columbia County in 2021.
âTheyâre one of the most active counties,â county solicitor Alvin B. Marshall said of Columbia and housing prisoners from elsewhere.
The one-year pact is one of several the county has to relieve overcrowding at Schuylkill County Prison, President Judge William E. Baldwin said.
At the last county Prison Board meeting on Dec. 9, Warden David J. Wapinsky said there were 28 inmates at other prisons: 15 in Centre; nine in Northumberland; and four in Columbia.