Charges dropped in felonious assault case
Published 9:31 am Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Charges have been dropped for a Willow Wood man accused of three counts of felonious assault.
Wayne Freeman, 47, of 61 Township Road 84W, was scheduled to stand trial for the charges Monday and today, but, according to the Lawrence County Prosecutor’s Office, the victims in the case did not want to cooperate.
Freeman allegedly fired a handgun into the glass door of his home in January 2011. The man’s wife and two acquaintances were his alleged victims.
Each felonious assault charge had a firearms specification, which would have added a mandatory three-year consecutive prison term for each count. He had also been charged with a misdemeanor charge of using a weapon while intoxicated and improperly charging a firearm into a school or habitation.
Freeman had previously pleaded not guilty back in April.
Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court, a Proctorville woman was sentenced to one year in prison for forgery charges.
Shalena Parsons, 31, of 784 State Route 411, Proctorville, had pleaded guilty on a bill of information to two counts of fifth-degree forgery and one count of third-degree tampering with evidence back in November.
Judge Charles Cooper sentenced Parsons to six months in jail for each count of forgery to run concurrently with one year in prison for the tampering with evidence charge.
Parsons was also ordered to pay $257.13 in restitution.