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Metcalf in Violation of Pre-Trial Release; Had Been Imbibing

By on January 30, 2013

ONE OF THE TWO BURLINGTON MEN FACING CRIMINAL CHARGES IN CONNECTION WITH THAT FATAL BOATING ACCIDENT LAST SPRING IS NOW ACCUSED OF VIOLATING THE TERMS OF HIS PRE-TRIAL RELEASE. 

21-YEAR OLD DOUG METCALF WAS SEEN IN THE BOOGALOO CAFÉ AT FUN CITY…ALLEGEDLY DRINKING ALCOHOL…ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO.   HE TURNED HIMSELF IN AT THE DES MOINES COUNTY JAIL YESTERDAY(TUE)…AND WAS RELEASED A SHORT TIME LATER AFTER POSTING BOND.   HE’LL APPEAR IN COURT FRIDAY, AT WHICH TIME A HEARING DATE WILL BE SET.     METCALF AND 22-YEAR OLD JOE SCHIER(SHEER) JUNIOR ARE CHARGED WITH BOATING WHILE INTOXICATED, CAUSING DEATH…AND 4 COUNTS EACH OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER.   METCALF IS ACCUSED OF OPERATING HIS BOAT WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL AND/OR DRUGS…WHILE SCHIER IS CHARGED WITH OPERATING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, MARIJUANA.

 

TWO BURLINGTON MIDDLE-SCHOOLERS ACCUSED OF STARTING A FIRE ON THE ROOF AT CORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAST SUMMER HAVE BOTH PLED GUILTY TO THIRD-DEGREE ARSON.  THE 13-YEAR OLD BOYS DID ABOUT 10-THOUSAND DOLLARS DAMAGE TO THE BUILDING.  ONE OF THEM HAS BEEN PUT ON PROBATION BY JUDGE MICHAEL DIETRICH AND DIETRICH WILL SENTENCE THE OTHER BOY ON MARCH 19TH.

 

18-YEAR OLD JESSE LEWIS OF BURLINGTON WAS SENTENCED EARLIER THIS WEEK TO FIVE YEARS PROBATION…80 HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE…RANDOM DRUG-TESTS…HE HAS TO GET HIS HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA…WRITE APOLOGY LETTERS…AND AGREE TO WORK WITH A MENTOR.   ALL THIS IN CONNECTION WITH A THEFT AT GUNPOINT LAST FALL AT SOUTH HILL PARK.   17-YEAR OLD TERRY POLK ALSO GOT FIVE YEARS PROBATION FOR THE STICKUP…AND THE CHARGE AGAINST 17-YEAR OLD JEREMY PIRTLE WAS DROPPED, AFTER A WITNESS CHANGED HER STORY.

 

18-YEAR OLD CHRIS MCCORKER OF WEST BURLINGTON HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON ON A SECOND-DEGREE BURGLARY CONVICTION.  THE INCIDENT WAS DESCRIBED AS A HOME INVASION ON VINE STREET IN WEST BURLINGTON…LAST JUNE…WHEN MCCORKER THREATENED RESIDENTS WITH WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS A GUN AND TRIED TO STEAL AN X-BOX.  HE LEFT WITHOUT IT.