A Tresckow man, involved in a shooting incident in Weatherly, entered a guilty plea on Monday in Carbon County court in two pending cases and was sentenced to a county prison term.

Cletus William Mumie Jr., 36, pleaded to one count of tampering with evidence, a felony, in the shooting incident. In exchange for the plea felony counts of aggravated assault and firearms not to be carried without a license were dropped by the district attorney’s office in a plea deal. He also pleaded to a summary offense of harassment for an incident on June 28, 2020, filed by state police at Hazleton for an incident along East Oak Street in Tresckow. In exchange for that plea, a charge of terroristic threats was dropped in a plea deal.

Shooting incident

Police said Mumie provided a handgun to a friend who then accidentally shot himself while they were walking on Second Street in Weatherly.

Mumie and the friend, Thomas Shawn Schreppel, 32, were allegedly going to confront a third man who was arguing with a woman Mumie was dating.

Police initially received a 911 hang up call from the Second Street area. When they arrived neighbors said they had heard the gunshot.

The neighbors reportedly said they saw two men, believed to be Schreppel and Mumie, exit a maroon Jeep and walk down the street when the gun fired.

One man, later determined to be Schreppel, reportedly yelled, “I’m bleeding and I need to go to the hospital.” The witnesses said the men got back in the Jeep and took off at a high rate of speed.

Officers directed 911 to contact area emergency rooms to alert them if any gunshot victims came in.

A dispatcher responded that Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hazleton had a man with a gunshot wound come in.

Police interviewed Schreppel, who told them his friend Mumie Jr. had dropped him off at the hospital.

Schreppel said Mumie had given him a handgun as part of a plan to confront a third man in Weatherly. Schreppel is not licensed to carry a concealed weapon.

He said they got out of the vehicle and started walking, but then realized they had to turn around. Just as he turned around, he heard the gun go off, and realized he shot himself in the genitals. He said he threw the gun in the back seat of the Jeep as they were headed to the hospital.

They later uncovered text messages showing that a woman had contacted Mumie to forcefully remove a man from an apartment on Carbon Street because he was arguing with her roommate. Mumie was reportedly dating the roommate.

Tresckow incident

Troopers responded to a residence along East Oak Street, Tresckow, Banks Township. Through an investigation troopers learned that Mumie engaged in a physical altercation with a 33-year-old woman of that address, causing her injuries. Mumie then threatened the victim with serious bodily injury or death.

Judge Joseph J. Matika accepted the pleas from Mumie and sentenced him to serve six to 23 months in the county prison and ordered him to render 75 hours of community service, pay court costs of about $1,000 and pay a $50 per month supervision fee while on parole. On the harassment charge he was fined $150.

Mumie was given credit for 180 days already served in prison on the tampering count and paroled him.