patching...
Update: Want to get your Hatboro and Horsham news in your inbox every morning? Sign up for our free newsletter! »
Welcome back, Patch Blogger!

Guilty Plea

Monday, January 7, 2013

Coach Pleads Guilty to Giving Alcohol to Minor

Former Hatboro-Horsham High School cross country coach William Ryan Lichtner pleaded guilty to corruption of minor and selling or furnishing alcohol to minors charges.

An Ambler man and former Hatboro-Horsham High School girls cross country coach will serve two years of probation for furnishing alcohol to a minor on "at least eight occasions" last school year.  William Ryan Lichtner, 24, who had coached the high school's girls cross country team for two years, pleaded guilty on Monday to a corruption of minors charge, as well as a charge of selling/furnishing alcohol to minors charge. In exchange for Lichtner's plea, the prosecutor downgraded the charges to misdemeanor offenses. Authorities had said Lichtner, on “at least eight occasions” from February 2012 through May 19, had purchased alcohol for a 17-year-old female. Montgomery County Judge Gary S. Silow ordered Lichtner to serve 48 hours of community…

Comment_arrow

European American

2:36 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Mac I wanted say what u said verbatim but I felt bad for saying it. I have teenage sisters and a daughter. But it's funny she was fine taking the alcohol 8 times before reporting it. You're dead right   more ›

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

McNicholas to Serve 4-8 Years

Both sides reached a plea agreement related to the homicide by vehicle deaths of 2010 Hatboro-Horsham High School graduates Edward Coombs and Robert Nagel.

The driver in an August 2011 crash that killed two of his best friends traded a potential 27-and-a-half year sentence for the possibility of being paroled after 3-and-a-half years under a plea agreement reached by both sides Tuesday. Connor James McNicholas, 20, of Bryant Court in Ambler, pleaded guilty to roughly one-third of the charges related to the single vehicle collision, which claimed the lives of fellow 2010 Hatboro-Horsham High School graduates Edward Coombs and Robert Nagel on Aug. 6. McNicholas has pleaded guilty to one of two counts of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence; and one of two counts of homicide by vehicle. In all, McNicholas pleaded guilty to seven of 20 charges that prosecutors had lodged against …

Comment_arrow

Henry

2:43 pm on Monday, July 30, 2012

kathy katz are you fuckin out of your mind? you sounds foolish, any one of those four kids could have driving the vehicle, you should be ashamed of yourself   more ›

Got a Hot Tip?
 
 

Videos