Only one preliminary hearing took place out of the 16 cases listed on today's Criminal Day docket at 15-1-01; of the remaining 15 cases, 6 were continued, 5 were withdrawn, and the remaining 4 were waived to Common Pleas Court.
The lone hearing was the matter of Commonwealth vs. Ashton John Bater, who was arrested on drug charges last month following a pedestrian stop. On August 10 at 14:41, Ofc. Aaron Davis spotted Bater allegedly drop an orange prescription pill bottle at a nearby autobody shot in the area of North Wayne Street and Hannum Avenue. Bater was stopped in front of a nearby laundromat and showed slurred speech, was unstable on his feet, and had an odor of alcohol eminating from his breath. At that point, Ofc. Davis placed Bater under arrest for Public Drunkeness. As Ofc. Jason O'Neill was placing Bater under arrest, Bater was allegedly found to have been holding a cell phone charger, a dirty sock, and a glass pipe commonly used to smoke marijuana. In a seach incident to arrest, a small white pill allegedly was found in Bater's right front pants pocket; the pill was sent tot he Lima Lab and tested positive for Oxycodone, which Bater was allegedly not prescribed. Bater was held for trial in Common Pleas Court on charges of Possession of a Controlled Substance, Possession of Drug Paraphanalia, Public Drunkeness, and Scattering Rubbish (15-1-01, CR-0000217-07). He remains at Chester County Prison on a probation violation detainer and also at two cases pending in front of Judge Howard F. Riley, Jr. that are listed on the current trial term, both for Possession of a Controlled Substance (CP-15-CR-00000206-2007 & CP-15-CR-0003071-2007).
Other than that, it was fairly uneventful...
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