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Monday, August 30,2010
Two more cited for dorm bombs, Palmer Fest
The Athens County Prosecutor's office continues to file
criminal bills of information against two sets of Ohio University
students who were allegedly involved in illegal rowdiness last spring
one group tossing bombs from an OU dorm, and the other setting fires
during the mid-May Palmer Fest block party.
Latest charges to be filed are against Christopher A. Babics, one of a group of five students who allegedly concocted homemade bombs and threw them out the window of an OU residence hall May 11; and Cameron C. Soergel, who was allegedly involved in riotous activity during Palmer Fest May 8.
Babics, 19, has been charged in a bill of information with possession of dangerous ordnance. This makes him the fourth student to be charged in connection with a May 11 incident in which he and four other male students living in OU's Pickering Hall allegedly made "bottle works bombs" using bottles and a chemical toilet-cleaner product, and threw them out windows of the dorm.
One of the bombs exploded near two OU Police officers who were investigating, though neither was seriously injured.
After OUPD investigated, it charged five students in connection with the incident. Babics and Sean C. O'Leary were charged with felonious assault, aggravated arson and possession of dangerous ordnance, while Michael R. Gibson, Nicholas T. Straight and Angel Senquiz were charged only with possession of dangerous ordnance. All men are now 19, though Gibson was 18 when he was charged.
All the charges were dismissed out of Athens County Municipal Court, and since then the county prosecutor has been filing bills of information against the group one by one, charging them in each case with possession of dangerous ordnance. The only one of the group not yet charged is Gibson.
Soergel is the last member of a group of three OU students who were charged with aggravated riot, a fourth-degree felony, based on pictures taken by passersby or participants at Palmer Fest, allegedly showing the three engaged in helping to drag a couch into the street and set it on fire. (Dozens of other people had been arrested on scene at the block party.) Those charges were dismissed out of Municipal Court, and the county prosecutor subsequently filed new charges in each case.
Lowry, 20, has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, and been ordered to pay a $250 fine, plus $3,000 restitution to OU.
A bill of information filed Thursday charges Soergel with disorderly conduct as well.
Facing the most serious charge is Kelsey Hayhow, 20, who has been re-indicted on the original charge of aggravated riot. She has a trial scheduled in October.
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