The Auburn school resource officer facing a sex abuse charge is accused of forcing a 14-year-old student to touch his private area over his clothes while in his Auburn High
A 2019 confrontation between an Auburn man and an Auburn Police Department officer in a downtown parking lot was resolved in Cayuga County Court Tuesday.
Jason J. Murphy, 38, was in front of Judge Mark Fandrich Tuesday in a virtual appearance from the office of his attorney, Annaleigh Porter. Murphy pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, a violation, in satisfaction of original criminal charges that included the felony of second-degree assault.
On July 16, 2019, Murphy was arrested in the Mavis Discount Tire parking lot by Auburn Police Officer Nicholas Atkins, who saw Murphy outside a vehicle with a car door open and what he thought was a purse in his hand around 1 a.m. APD Deputy Chief Roger Anthony said at the time that Murphy reached for his pocket when Atkins approached him, and Atkins ordered Murphy to remove his hands from his pockets. Atkins later recovered a knife from Murphy. While Atkins was arresting Murphy on a city weapons ordinance violation, Murphy pulled away
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An Auburn man who fled city police trying to take him into custody on a bench warrant will remain in jail.
Jason McPhearson, 28, was in Cayuga County Court Thursday virtually in front of Judge Thomas Leone for a return on warrant proceeding.
McPhearson is facing multiple charges, including second-degree strangulation, a class D felony; aggravated family offense, a class E felony; second-degree unlawful imprisonment, a misdemeanor; and second-degree harassment, a violation.
McPhearson was previously in front of Leone upon being indicted, and Leone had told McPhearson to report to the Cayuga County Jail by a certain time. Cayuga County Senior Assistant District Attorney Heather DeStefano said in court Thursday that McPhearson previously said he had a bed waiting for him at a rehabilitation center but that was later determined to be false.