UPDATE: James Eugene Brown was ordered to serve up to two years for each count. Each count will run consecutively with one another, but will be added to the sentence he is serving for homicide by vehicle.
Stephen P. McCloskey was ordered to three years of probation for the receiving stolen property charge, and one year of probation for the possession of drug paraphernalia charge. The sentences will run concurrently.
Andria Lynn Goss was sentenced to six months probation for indirect criminal contempt.
WHAT WE FIRST REPORTED
36-year-old James Eugene Brown will be sentenced in Indiana County Court today in three criminal cases for offenses he committed while free on bond awaiting trial for homicide by vehicle.
In October, Brown pleaded guilty to two counts of felony retail theft and a single count of misdemeanor conspiracy to theft by deception. Those pleas came on the same day on which he was sentenced to up to 12 years in state prison for homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence and related offenses. He was the driver of a car that crashed into Pikel’s Top Tier Fuels in Home in July of 2018, killing Melissa Myers of Commodore, who was working inside the store at the time. Brown confessed that he had taken heroin and smoked marijuana before the fiery crash, which took out a gas pump before striking the building.
The charges for which Brown is being sentenced today occurred in June of last year.
Also in county court today, 24-year-old Steven Paul McCloskey of Homer City will be sentenced in two cases, for possession of drug paraphernalia and for receiving stolen property.
38-year-old Andria Lynn Goss of Commodore will have a non-jury trial before Judge Michael Clark for contempt for violating a court order or agreement.
