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Eleven defendants sentenced after pleas

Eleven defendants were sentenced recently on criminal charges by five Schuylkill County judges as follows:

Judge Cyrus Palmer Dolbin sentenced the following:Marvin Marion Nowling, 50,125 E. Coal St., Cumbola , Blythe Township, on charges of access device fraud by unauthorized use of a credit card belonging to Nicole McCormick Corby, Middleport, was sentenced to serve 10 to 24 months in a state correctional facility with credit for serving 13 days in the county prison and ordered to pay $50 to the Criminal Justice Enhancement Account (CJEA) fund. Nowling was cited by Saint Clair Patrolman Martin H. Sterner.Jon Brett McGeehan, Waynesboro, driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol, serve 72 hours to six months in the county prison, fined $1,000, pay $300 to Substance Abuse Education (SAE) fund, $50 to CJEA fund, $50 to Catastrophe fund, $60 to Schuylkill Medical Center, attend alcohol highway safety school, driver's license suspended 12 months, and make restitution of $215.57 to KNBT bank. On a summary charge of careless driving was fined $25 plus $50 costs. McGeehan was cited by Minersville Patrolman Jeffrey R Bowers.Judge Charles M. Miller sentenced the following:Jamell Curtis Boyd, 30, Pottsville, pleaded nollo contendre (no defense) to possession of a controlled substance, sentenced to serve 11 and 1/2 to 23 months in the county jail. On a charge of possession of a small amount of marijuana to serve 15 to 30 days in jail with the sentence to run concurrent. On a charge of disorderly conduct was fined $100. He was cited by Pottsville Patrolman Renee R. Galle.Boyd also pleaded no defense to the charge of simple assault was sentenced to serve an additional 12 months on probation. He was cited by Minersville police.Joseph Edward Boris II, 22, Minersville, pleaded no defense to a charge of criminal mischief and was placed on probation 12 months, pay $50 to CJEA fund, and make restitution of $1,152.17 to Michael Murphy. Boris was cited by Pottsville Cpl. Mark D. O'Toole.Thomas Maurice Howard, 56, Pottsville, pleaded no defense to a charge of access device fraud by using a credit card issued to another person and didn't have authority to use it, placed on probation 18 months, and pay $50 to CJEA fund. On a charge of theft received a concurrent sentence. Howard was cited by Pottsville Patrolman Charles B. Webber.Donald George Baker Jr., 31, Pottsville, criminal mischief by damaging police car, placed on probation 12 months, pay $50 to CJEA fund, perform 25 hours of community service, make restitution of $100 to Officer Welsh, and $1,817.31 to Erie Insurance Company.Joshua Robert Ptaszkowski, 23, Shenandoah, person not to possess firearm, sentenced to serve four to eight years in a state correction facility. On two counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance was fined $2,000 and serve a concurrent sentence. He also must pay $600 to SAE fund and $50 to CJEA fund. He was cited by Cpl. James Cuttitta, state trooper, in Shenandoah.Joshua Jimenez, 25, New York City, criminal conspiracy and delivery of a controlled substance, sentenced to serve 21 to 42 months in a state correctional facility and may participate in boot camp program, if determined to be eligible. He received credit for 38 days spent in a county jail, fined $500, pay $300 to SAE fund, $50 to CJEA fund, and make restitution of $113 to Bethlehem Regional Lab. Jimenez was cited by McAdoo Patrolman Robert Minnick.Judge John E. Domalakes accepted the guilty pleas of David Allen Noll, 41, of Orwigsburg, now an inmate in the Somerset State Prison, six counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse but deferred sentence as he ordered the defendant to undergo an evaluation by the state's Sexual Offenders Assessment Board.Noll was cited by Cpl. James S. Cuttitta, state trooper, with abusing a 10-year-old boy with all the incidents occurring in Orwigsburg between December 1998 and December 2003.President Judge William E. Baldwin accepted the guilty plea of Wayne Frederick Haller, 26, Pottsville, to DUI of alcohol and sentenced him to serve 72 hours to six months in the county prison, fined $1,000, pay $100 to SAE fund, $50 to CJEA fund, $50 to Catastrophe fund, attend safety school, and perform 10 hours community services. On a charge of failing to have car insurance was fined $300; and careless driving, fined $25 plus $100 in costs. Haller was cited by Trooper Michael P. Becker when stopped on S. Market St. in East Brunswick Township.Found guiltyAfter a non-jury trial, Joshua Adam Phillips, 27, of Shenandoah, was found guilty by Judge James P. Goodman of charges of DUI of alcohol, driving while his license was suspended, default rear light, and failed to wear a seat belt.Sentence was deferred to Jan. 3, 2013. Phillips was cited by Trooper Michael Becker when stopped in Shenandoah last April 7.