Photos: Star Daisha Keisha Estelle Poole (left) Lycoming County Magistrate Judge Gary Whiteman (right)
By Todd Bartley, TalkWilliamsport.com
News@TalkWilliamsport.com
Star Poole, WASD school board member, failed to appear in court this afternoon in front of Lycoming County Magistrate Judge Gary Whiteman.
Poole was properly served and provided her due process rights for a hearing to set-up a payment plan on the outstanding fines and costs on multiple warrants previously issued due to unpaid court costs and fines related to multiple traffic citations from cases in June 2021.
By failing to appear, five additional “failure to appear” warrants are being issued by Lycoming County Magistrate Judge Gary Whiteman which according to PA State Law; could carry some type of jail time with them.
Additional warrants have been served upon Star Poole and she also has a court appearance scheduled in front of Lycoming County Magistrate Judge Aaron Biichle tomorrow at 2 p.m. to also set-up a payment plan on the outstanding fines and costs in a separate case.
Within the hour of publication of this story; Poole is scheduled to be sworn in as an existing board member during the Williamsport Area School District school board meeting.
It is unknown at this writing if the new warrants have been issued or if they could be served upon Star Poole at the WASD school board meeting tonight by a local Constable.
As exclusively reported by TalkWilliamsport.com earlier today; Poole is already on the WASD school board agenda tonight with an item “to discuss setting a date for a “due process” hearing since she is facing removal.”
If Poole fails to show up to WASD school board meeting tonight, the vote to remove her could occur in her absence.
The legal analysis provided by the Scaringi Law Firm for such a vote can be found here.
Full disclosure:
Star Poole was a WASD school board member when the WASD school tax office attempted to have this author criminally charged on the basis of failing to pay WASD school taxes.
On reason and belief; it was the first criminal case of unpaid school taxes brought against a business or individual in the history of the WASD.
The case was subsequently withdrawn by the WASD school tax office. WASD Solicitor Fred Holland represented the WASD school tax office in the case.
This is an exclusive and developing story on TalkWilliamsport.com.
