NEW CASTLE Bigamy suspect seeks divorce

A trial date has been set for early May.
By VIRGINIA ROSS
VINDICATOR CORRESPONDENT
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- The attorney for an area man accused of bigamy said his client is trying to make amends by filing for divorce.
Atty. Norman Levine of New Castle said he's convinced that 39-year-old Todd Jablon of Sharpsville never intentionally tried to outwit the law by remarrying without having first divorced previous wives.
In January, the Mercer County Sheriff's Department charged the Sharon native with bigamy, perjury and false swearing after one of the wives made a complaint to police. He was arraigned before District Justice Ruth French and is free on his own recognizance.
Trial ordered: After a preliminary hearing, French ordered Jablon, a former salesman, to stand trial. Levine said those proceedings are scheduled to begin in early May.
"But we're hoping [Jablon] can make things right," Levine said. "Step by step, we're doing what we can to resolve all of this. If we can get things in order, I'm hoping the court will see he didn't purposely set out to hurt anyone. The marriages ended, the couples called it quits and separated and went their own ways."
On March 15, according to records at the Lawrence County Government Center, Jablon filed for divorce from Patricia O'Neil Jablon Olinger of Edinburg, Pa. Records indicate the couple married May 18, 1993, in Trumbull County, Ohio.
Levine said Jablon had filed for divorce several years ago but had never received a final decree.
Olinger married her current husband, William, on Feb. 14, 1998, in Lawrence County.
Several marriages: According to court records, Jablon has been married several times in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
He married Penny A. Newman of Salem, Ohio, in April 1986; O'Neil in 1993; Lillian Paul Busco of Greenville, June 28, 1996; and Beverly Perry of Brookfield, Ohio, Feb. 2, 2000.
Another wife, Cindy Sipe Boyle, whom Jablon married in June 1990 in New Castle, divorced Jablon in December 1992.
On Jablon's marriage license application with Boyle, which is on record in New Castle, Boyle and Jablon indicated neither one had been married before. However, Jablon's original answer was whited out and replaced with a zero.