Arraignment

CHAMBERBSURG, Pa. -- The mandatory arraignment of a man charged with criminal homicide in the August shooting death of a Chambersburg man was postponed this week in Franklin County Court. V'Cetres Buckner, 18, of 207 Larch Ave., also is charged with robbery and theft in the Aug. 6 killing of 42-year-old Timothy Aaron Short of Chambersburg. Short was shot in the face early that morning on Hemlock Circle, according to the Chambersburg Police Department. Buckner's mandatory arraignment was set for Wednesday, but was postponed because the judge assigned to his case was not available, Assistant District Attorney Laura Kerstetter said.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. -- A State Line, Pa., man charged with criminal homicide in the April 3 stabbing death of a Hagerstown woman appeared briefly in court Wednesday for the first time since prosecutors filed paperwork necessary to seek the death penalty against him. Jeffrey E. Miles Sr., 47, was scheduled for arraignment Wednesday afternoon, but Franklin County (Pa.) Court Judge Douglas Herman cited the seriousness of the case in saying he wanted to reschedule the arraignment for a day when he had more time.

A mandatory arraignment scheduled for Thursday morning in Gettysburg for a man accused in the death of Pennsylvania wildlife conservation officer David Grove was postponed until Jan. 20. The Adams County (Pa.) District Attorney's Office filed the motion for the postponement in the case of Christopher Johnson, 27, of Fairfield, Pa., who was charged with first-degree murder, illegal possession of a firearm and other charges in the Nov. 11 shooting death of Grove, also of Fairfield. District Attorney Shawn Wagner declined to explain why the  state requested the postponement.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. -- An arraignment date has been set for a man charged with criminal homicide in the April 3 stabbing death of a Hagerstown woman. Jeffrey Eldon Miles, 47, waived his preliminary hearing on Tuesday morning, two days before he was due to appear in Franklin County (Pa.) Court. Magisterial District Judge Larry Pentz said he traveled to the county jail before 8 a.m. to witness the State Line, Pa., man sign forms waiving the hearing. Miles is scheduled for mandatory arraignment Sept.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A man charged with surreptitiously photographing at least one co-worker in the restroom of the business where they worked has waived his mandatory arraignment in Franklin County Court and was listed for the March trial term. Andrew Edward Gahagan, 33, formerly of Chambersburg, is charged with four misdemeanor counts of second-degree invasion of privacy. His attorney, Eric J. Weisbrod, said his client, who has since moved out of the area, waived his Wednesday arraignment by mail.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. -- The mandatory arraignment of a Chambersburg man charged with criminal homicide was delayed Wednesday in Franklin County Court to allow V'Cetres Buckner to find an attorney certified to handle a death penalty case. Assistant District Attorney Angela Krom told Judge Carol Van Horn that a notice of aggravating circumstances was filed in the case of Buckner, who is charged with the Aug. 6 shooting death of Timothy A. Short, 42, of Chambersburg. Under Pennsylvania law, the filing of the notice is necessary in order for the prosecution to seek the death penalty.

A woman charged with vehicular homicide in the July 2010 crash that killed a teenage girl entered not guilty pleas and waived her arraignment scheduled for Wednesday afternoon in Franklin County (Pa.) Court, doing both by mail. Mary Ellen Bonebrake, 53, of Mont Alto, Pa., is charged with homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, aggravated assault by vehicle while DUI, driving under the influence of a controlled substance, disregarding traffic lanes, careless driving and reckless driving.

By AMY WALLAUER Staff Writer, Martinsburg MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Martinsburg man charged in the rape of a pregnant woman at knifepoint will be arraigned Feb. 27 in Berkeley County. A Berkeley County grand jury indicted Kenneth R. Gray, 36, Thursday on charges of kidnapping and two counts of first-degree sexual abuse. According to court records, Gray was living at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Martinsburg, where he was being treated for substance abuse around the time of the July 30 attack.

Jeffrey E. Miles Sr., who is charged with killing two people, waived mandatory arraignment Wednesday in the Franklin County (Pa.) Court of Common Pleas and had a not-guilty plea entered on his behalf in the case involving a 17-year-old female beaten to death. Miles, 49, of State Line, Pa., is charged with criminal homicide in the 1995 death of Waynesboro, Pa., teenager Angie Lynn Daley. Her remains were found in April 2010 on a farm in southern Franklin County. The same day that Daley's remains were discovered, law enforcement officials found a Hagerstown woman's body in the woods off Ninth Street in Waynesboro.

GREENCASTLE, Pa. - A former Waynesboro, Pa., attorney has waived his preliminary hearing on theft charges and will appear in Franklin County Court for mandatory arraignment next month. Todd A. Dorsett, 39, of 128 W. Main St., was charged by Pennsylvania State Police in October with four counts of theft by failure to make required distribution of funds. The affidavit of probable cause alleges he failed to distribute a total of $192,042 from three estates and a civil settlement. District Justice Shirley Shatzer said Dorsett waived his preliminary hearing scheduled for Monday and has been bound over for court on the charges.

Police seized 310 cartons of cigarettes from a vehicle that was stopped at a Martinsburg-area Sheetz on Wednesday, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court documents. Oda Qarqat, 46, of Bogota, N.J., was arraigned Thursday on charges of no operators license and transportation of unstamped cigarettes or tax-not-paid tobacco products by Magistrate Robert L. Lowe II, according to court documents. Qarqat was in Eastern Regional Jail Thursday night on $9,000 bond, according to court and jail records.

A Martinsburg man is accused of shoving a 10-year-old boy against a wall last month, breaking the child's collarbone, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court documents. Michael Dewayne Snow, 39,  of 214 Stewart Ave., was arraigned Thursday evening by Magistrate Robert L. Lowe II on one felony count of child abuse resulting in injury, according to court documents. The child told authorities that the defendant shoved him against the wall on March 26 because he was angry with him for vomiting in the kitchen that same evening, according to complaint filed against the defendant by West Virginia State Police Trooper W.R. Garrett.

A Martinsburg man is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from his disabled brother in the last five years, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records. Kenneth Leroy Bivens, 55, of 6 Midnoon Drive, was arraigned Thursday by Magistrate JoAnn Overington on one felony count of embezzlement, according to court documents. West Virginia State Police Cpl. J.M. Walker said he identified $126,044 in funds that were missing and/or converted by Bivens for his personal use, according to a criminal complaint filed against Bivens.

A Hagerstown man has been arraigned on felony and misdemeanor charges in a fatal vehicle crash in October 2012 that killed his brother and left another man paralyzed. Timothy Lee Kegarise, 33, of Hagerstown, was arraigned Friday by Berkeley County Magistrate Harry L. Snow on single felony counts of driving under the influence with death and destruction of property, and one misdemeanor count of DUI with injury, according to magistrate court documents. Kegarise's brother, Thomas L. Kegarise, also of Hagerstown, died as a result of multiple blunt force trauma in the Oct. 11 crash on Hedgesville Road (W.Va.

A Falling Waters, W.Va., man pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he sexually assaulted a woman in August 2012 and then kidnapped another woman in a violent string of events that ended when he was shot by police. Raymond Sidney Wallace II, 23, was arraigned by 23rd Judicial Circuit Judge Christopher C. Wilkes on four sexual assault-related offenses, and single counts of kidnapping, attempted arson and assault on a government representative. Wilkes set bonds totaling $900,000 for the pending felony charges, which are contained in a grand jury indictment that was decided last week in Berkeley County Circuit Court.

A 4-year-old boy and his mother were taken to a hospital Monday morning after the car they were riding in was struck by a motorist who police say was fleeing from them at a high rate of speed. The woman told authorities that her son was injured and that she was in pain before they were taken from the crash site near Hedgesville (W.Va.) High School to City Hospital in Martinsburg, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court documents. The driver of the vehicle that was pursued by police, Steven David Cole, of 223 Crestview Drive, Martinsburg, was later arraigned by Magistrate Harry L. Snow on single felony counts of fleeing in vehicle in a reckless manner and fleeing in vehicle causing bodily injury, according to court documents.

An Inwood, W.Va., man accused of shooting a white pit bull mix dog outside his house earlier this month was arraigned Wednesday on one felony count of animal cruelty in Berkeley County Magistrate Court, according to court documents. Earl Dean Stegall, 45, of 175 Longwood Drive, also was arraigned by Magistrate Betty Jo Hersh on one count of discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling, according to court documents. Berkeley County Sheriff's Deputy H.C. Lu said in a criminal complaint that video footage from cameras mounted at Stegall's home in Timberwood Ridge subdivision show the defendant was facing the dog prior to shooting the animal.

The man suspected in the Spring Mills, W.Va., Walmart pharmacy robbery Tuesday was due to appear in Washington County Circuit Court today for an unrelated burglary case, according to court records. Jesse Lee Gibson, 27, of 1483 Oak Grove Road in Hedgesville, W.Va., was arraigned Wednesday by Berkeley County Magistrate Harry L. Snow on felony counts of robbery and bringing a stolen vehicle into the state and misdemeanor counts of driving while license revoked for driving under the influence, DUI and possession of a controlled substance, according to court documents.

A 21-year-old woman is charged with being involved in the robbery of a man who told police he was robbed and left alongside a road after being ordered to remove his clothes, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records. Chelsea Renae Thompson of 48 Oak Hill Court, Harpers Ferry, W.Va., was arraigned Sunday on one count of first-degree robbery and one count of conspiracy, according to court documents. The victim told police that $50, his wallet, keys, mobile phone, pants, underwear and shoes were taken in the Oct. 13 robbery, according to court documents.

City police in Martinsburg found two young children with bruises and other marks on their bodies while investigating a reported domestic incident early Thursday at a Centre Street residence. One of the children, a 2-year-old, was later determined to have a broken arm as a result of the domestic incident, which police responded to investigate at 2:44 a.m., Martinsburg Police Detective J.D. Luciano said in a news release.  The reported domestic incident led to the arrest of Bradley Walter Price, 36, of 401 Centre St., who was arraigned Thursday on two felony counts of child abuse resulting in injury by Berkeley County Magistrate Harry L. Snow, according to court documents.