Pa. supervisor makes plea in indecency case

GIRARD -- Minutes before going to trial, a Pennsylvania township supervisor reached a plea agreement on two misdemeanor charges of public indecency.
Under the agreement, Willis Swartz, 64, of Nych Road, New Wilmington, a Lackawannock (Pa.) Township supervisor, pleaded no contest to the charges and was found guilty by Judge Michael Bernard.
Swartz will be on probation for one year, pay a $250 fine and undergo a psychiatric evaluation. (In Pennsylvania, township trustees are called supervisors.)
According to Hubbard police, Swartz was driving around the Park Avenue and Elmwood Drive sections of the city in late October and on two occasions exposed himself to women walking along the road.
According to Mercer County (Pa.) Assistant District Attorney William Moder, Swartz has a similar charge pending in Mercer County court.
He is charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure and open lewdness.
Moder said Swartz is accused of pulling alongside a woman on McCleery Street in Sharon last October, exposing himself and engaging in a lewd act.
Moder said the woman pulled out a cell phone and Swartz drove away.
Swartz will be arraigned on the Pennsylvania charges Aug. 8.