New Castle coaches wave hearings

NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP) -- Three Pop Warner football coaches waived preliminary hearings Wednesday on charges they cursed and shouted at referees and incited the crowd during a game earlier this year.
Fred Smith, 33, Corey Eggleston, 35, and Nelek Mitchell, 30, all of New Castle, are scheduled to be arraigned Dec. 5. The three were coaching the New Castle Central Hurricanes in the Tri-County Youth Football League when the incident occurred in September.
As a result, the men were banned for life from the Pop Warner league.
The men coached fifth- and sixth-graders who were losing 26-0 to the Laurel Spartans when, police said, the men started throwing footballs at the referees and worked the crowd into a frenzy. The officials ended the game and 14 police from the city, state police, and three neighboring communities were called to control the situation, New Castle police have said.
Eggleston continued shouting profanities after being warned not to do so in front of the children and Smith grabbed an officer who tried to subdue Eggleston, police said. Mitchell was arrested because he was told six times to leave and wouldn't stop shouting and swearing, police said.
The three men were charged with disorderly conduct and failure to disperse, both misdemeanors. Smith was also charged with resisting arrest and obstructing the administration of law, also misdemeanors.