When 40-year-old Mark Cummins Frailey walked into the Blair County Prison\u2019s library on Monday, he didn\u2019t know revenge was on the mind of someone already there.
\nIt was there that Frailey, a former Tyrone Borough Police officer and chief of police at Tyrone Area School District, was punched by a man, who police say Frailey arrested while acting as a police officer.
\nAccording to police, the fight occurred at about 9 a.m. Monday morning when 36-year-old Michael M. James of Altoona threatened Frailey, then began to punch him.
\nFrailey, needing treatment after the altercation, was taken to Altoona Hospital where he received stitches to close his wounds.
\nJames was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, simple assault, aggravated assault, assault by prisoner, harassment and stalking and terroristic threats. He was arraigned before District Magistrate Robert A. Shoff and placed in the Blair County Prison in lieu of $10,000 cash bail.
\nFrailey\u2019s wounds were evident yesterday morning as he was led from a sheriff\u2019s car to the office of District Magistrate Kenneth Garman on Fourth Street in Altoona. His head was wrapped in bandages and bruising was visible on his cheeks and eye.
\nFrailey was scheduled for a preliminary hearing on charges that he attempted to run-down the father of a juvenile girl in which the former policeman is alleged to have sexual relations with. Garman granted a defense motion to postpone the hearing due to a family emergency of one of two attorney\u2019s Frailey hired for his case \u2013 Thomas Dickey of Altoona. He is also represented by Theodore Krol.
\nPolice said on Feb. 21, the adult male victim told police that he had left his home on Oak Street sometime after 11 a.m. that morning and started driving towards Adams Avenue. He said as he went down the road, he observed Frailey driving towards him.
\nHe said Frailey stopped his vehicle, began backing up, then began moving forward, again passing the victim. The victim then said he turned around and went back to his driveway to call police, knowing there is a current PFA in effect in regards to Frailey and his daughter.
\nPolice said the victim had no doubt that Frailey was there to stalk his daughter because the street was a dead end and that Frailey was aware that the girl would be there this past weekend.
\nPolice said after the man phoned police, he parked his vehicle in front of Frailey, who was sitting in his vehicle at the end of Oak Street.
\nPolice said the man was standing outside his vehicle, but made no \u201cmove\u201d toward Frailey, when Frailey began operating his vehicle in the direction of the victim.
\nPolice said Frailey could have gone to the left without endangering anyone, but instead, the victim had to jump out of the way to avoid being struck by Frailey\u2019s car.
\nThese latest charges, misdemeanor crimes of recklessly endangering another person, simple assault and harassment, were filed Saturday after Hollidaysburg-based state police Trooper Douglas Jenkins interviewed the victim and Frailey at the Tyrone police station.
\nOn Tuesday, Frailey appeared before District Attorney Robert Stewart III in Huntingdon County and chose to stipulate to a bail revocation petition filed after the simple assault charges were drawn up in last month. Frailey will remained jailed in an isolated section of the Huntingdon County Jail until his trial date.
\nThe initial investigation opened in August when police learned Frailey may have had inappropriate sexual contact with a 16-year-old female student he once coached in softball.
\nThe affidavit of probable cause filed by the state police states the investigation into Frailey\u2019s alleged activities began on June 17 when the victim and her mother were interviewed by Cpl. Darron H. Stratton at the Hollidaysburg barracks.
\nDuring the interview, police said the victim\u2019s mother advised that Frailey, while employed as a school police officer, also supervised a club known as the Police Explorers and coached a softball team.
\nShe told police Frailey began to drive her daughter home after the different school activities and also began calling their residence.
\nShe told police that she had asked Frailey to stop these actions, but Frailey continued to do so.
\nShe also told police, according to the affidavit, that Frailey once picked her daughter up at 5:30 a.m. on a school day for a \u201cschool-related breakfast.\u201d
\nShe later learned there was no such breakfast held in the district.
\nShe said on Jan. 16, her daughter cell phone rang, and when she answered it, she discovered Frailey was the caller.
\nAccording to the affidavit, the juvenile girl admitted that in mid to late May, Frailey \u201cFrench kissed\u201d her at a spot located along state Route 453 just past Grier School.
\nShe also said she met him there again on June 12 and they again French kissed. She also said they touched each other inappropriately.
\nOn June 18, Stratton interviewed Frailey, who first denied the allegations, but later said the only thing that happened between him and the victim occurred with her consent after she turned 16 years old.
\nAfter this interview, Stratton contacted the victim\u2019s mother who said her daughter admitted that she had sexual intercourse with Frailey one week prior to their conversation.
\nOn June 25, the victim and her mother met with Stratton and Brown at the Family Services office in Altoona and the victim advised that she did have sexual relations with Frailey on three separate occasions.
\nShe said these incidents all occurred at his residence in his bedroom. The mother and daughter also noted that Frailey used e-mail and instant message to contact the girl from both the school computer and his personal computer at home.
\nAccording to the affidavit, Frailey admitted his sexual encounter by stating to a Tyrone resident that he made a mistake and had sexual relations with a 16-year-old girl and that he wasn\u2019t worried because police can only arrest him for corruption of minors because he waited for the girl to turn 16 years of age. Frailey also told the man that he stored all his personal files and records in his garage.
\nOn Aug. 11, Brown served a search warrant on the computer system of the Tyrone Area School District and recovered a \u201cbox\u201d of e-mails directed from Frailey to the girl. Brown also said he served a second warrant on a garage at a property located on West 17th Street in Tyrone and found newspaper clippings, two VCR tapes, a letter from an attorney, an official police book and a folder titled \u201cPersonal.\u201d
\nSeven days later, Brown, with permission from the victim\u2019s mother, analyzed the family\u2019s personal computer. There, two instant messages screen names were found \u2013 mcf646col and mcfrailey.
\nThe last search warrant was served in October. At Frailey\u2019s home, a 2003 date book was found, eight floppy disks, a certificate issued to the victim, a birthday card, a printed e-mail message, four pages of written notes, seven compact discs an a photo display of the victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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