8/25/16
by News Department on 08/25/16Kessler acquitted...
For the second time in three days, former Gilberton police chief and North Schuylkill school board member Mark Kessler, of Frackville, walked out of the Schuylkill County Courthouse a free man.
The Republican Herald reports that on Wednesday, a jury acquitted him of harassing a borough councilman in August 2015 in a Frackville store.
Frackville borough police had charged Kessler with harassing Councilman William Creasy about 7 p.m. Aug. 19, 2015, at Boyer’s Food Market.
Schuylkill County Judge Jacqueline L. Russell presided over the one-day trial.
Another jury on Monday had found Kessler not guilty of terroristic threats and harassment in connection with an alleged road rage incident on Aug. 22, 2015, on Route 61 between Saint Clair and Frackville.
Russell, who also presided over that trial, found him not guilty of disorderly conduct.
