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POTTSVILLE â Phillip G. Moeller Jr. will spend as much time behind state prison bars as originally intended for killing a child, but must pay more in court costs, a Schuylkill County judge ruled Wednesday.
âThe original sentence stands,â President Judge William E. Baldwin said in ordering Moeller, 50, of Fountain Springs, to serve two to five years in a state correctional institution as the result of the death of Tanner L. Geiger.
However, Baldwin said Moeller must pay $4,826.75 in additional costs of prosecution. Assistant District Attorney A.J. Serina said the costs were for the testimony of prosecution witness Dr. Samuel Land.
Schuylkill County District Attorney Michael A. OâPake has decided to seek the death penalty for a man charged with stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death on the front porch of a Shenandoah home in August.
Nathaniel Joseph Kimmel, 22, of 12 N. Richard St., Girardville, is scheduled for trial in Schuylkill County Court in 2021, charged with killing April M. Mahmod, 37, of 106 S. Catherine St., Shenandoah.
State police Trooper Shawn Tray of the Frackville station charged Kimmel with one felony count each of criminal homicide, burglary and criminal trespass; two felony counts of aggravated assault; and one misdemeanor count each of possessing instruments of crime, simple assault, simple assault with a weapon and recklessly endangering another person.
Pottsville Man Taken into Custody on Warrant from Maryland
A Pottsville man was taken into custody over the weekend after a traffic stop.
According to the Pennsylvania State Police at Schuylkill Haven, on Saturday, December 26th, 2020, around 6:45pm, a traffic stop was conducted on a vehicle being driven by James Arnold, 58, of Pottsville.
A check of Arnold s information led to the finding that he was wanted on an active warrant out of Somerset County, Maryland. Arnold was also found to be in unlawful possession of two firearms.
Arnold was taken into custody and arraigned before Magisterial District Judge David Plachko and locked up in Schuylkill County Prison on $25,000 bail.
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