Two men who are suspected of joining others in a fight and theft at a club in Erie more than a year ago were still on the run on Monday. The police have refused to say anything about the event because they are still investigating it.
Case papers and Erie police say that 14 of the 16 people who were charged last week have been arraigned on charges of aggravated assault, robbery, and other crimes.
Not much is known about the people charged by Erie police. Police records and criminal docket sheets from Erie show that nine of the suspects were arrested Thursday morning and tried that same day. Stephen Simmons is 70 years old, Joshua R. Burton is 34, Blake Mariani is 29, Joseph L. Henry is 31, Vito Randazzo is 48, Chandler D. Kopystecki is 20, James J. Taylor is 59, and Christopher P. Mitulski is 58. Court records show that they are all free now that their $100,000 bonds were paid.
Police and court records show that three more people were charged on Friday. Their names are Cory J. Bapst, 40, Timothy O. Lamp Jr., 41, and Brian M. Miller, 49. Court records show that they are all free now that their $100,000 bonds were paid.
Two people were arraigned this week: Christopher P. Mitulski Jr., 36, on Saturday and Anthony G. Kopystecki, 49, on Monday. Court records show that both of them have paid their $100,000 bonds.
According to court records, the 14 are likely to show up in court on April 28 for their preliminary trials.
last week are being accused of, but the criminal charges against them don’t say what they did and there were no affidavits of probable cause attached. The Erie police and the Erie County District Attorney’s Office have also not said anything about the case. They have only said that people were given sealed arrest warrants on Thursday morning as part of an investigation into a serious assault.
Police say that officers from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives were also involved in the sweep Thursday morning, during which several of the suspects were caught. But an ATF spokesman in Philadelphia told the Erie Times-News that the agency doesn’t talk about or comment on current investigations. Neither would Erie police nor the DA’s Office say anything about the ATF’s role in the investigation.
There is an investigation because of claims that illegal things happened at Saga Club.
The 16 people who have been charged so far are thought to have done something criminal at the Saga Club in Erie on January 13, 2024. The case is still being looked into, the police told the Times-News on Monday.
Police records and criminal docket sheets from Erie show that nine of the suspects were arrested Thursday morning and tried that same day. Stephen Simmons is 70 years old, Joshua R. Burton is 34, Blake Mariani is 29, Joseph L. Henry is 31, Vito Randazzo is 48, Chandler D. Kopystecki is 20, James J. Taylor is 59, and Christopher P. Mitulski is 58. Court records show that they are all free now that their $100,000 bonds were paid.
Police and court records show that three more people were charged on Friday. Their names are Cory J. Bapst, 40, Timothy O. Lamp Jr., 41, and Brian M. Miller, 49. Court records show that they are all free now that their $100,000 bonds were paid.
Two people were arraigned this week: Christopher P. Mitulski Jr., 36, on Saturday and Anthony G. Kopystecki, 49, on Monday. Court records show that both of them have paid their $100,000 bonds.
According to court records, the 14 are likely to show up in court on April 28 for their preliminary trials.
Two other people charged by Erie police in the case had not been caught or arraigned on their charges as of Monday afternoon, according to records from the police and the court. They are 36-year-old Andrew A. Nagy and 34-year-old Samuel R. Yager.
