A former police chief of the Tyrone Area School District is once again in trouble with the law.
\nThirty-nine-year-old Mark Cummins Frailey of Spruce Creek was arrested and arraigned Monday on charges that he violated a protection-from-abuse order which stemmed from his first arrest in November.
\nAccording to Tpr. Scott Plank of the Huntingdon barracks of the state police, Frailey violated the order at about 3 p.m. on Dec. 31 when he phoned the 17-year-old girl, who was the victim during last year\u2019s sexual misconduct case.
\nAccording to police, Frailey turned himself in without incident.
\nHe was arraigned before District Magistrate Daniel Davis and released on $25,000 unsecured bail.
\nAccording to Magistrate Davis, the PFA was issued by Huntingdon County Judge Stewart Kurtz in September at the request of the victim\u2019s mother. Davis said the PFA charges are civil charges and no preliminary hearing is scheduled for this type of case. He said Judge Kurtz will schedule a hearing on the matter.
\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 ### 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.
\nFrailey had bail set at $25,000 in this case and was released. A preliminary hearing scheduled for late December was continued at the request of the defendant, who is represented by Altoona attorney Theodore Krol. The hearing is now scheduled for Jan. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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