October 14, 2015- Commonwealth v David Albright:  On October 14, 2015, Judge Deborah E. Curcillo sentenced David Albright to 5 ½ to 11 years for felony solicitation to commit aggravated assault and a consecutive 1 to 2 years for misdemeanor terroristic threats for an aggregate sentence of 6 ½ to 13 years in state prison.  At the conclusion of trial on August 20, 2015, a Dauphin County jury found Albright guilty of both of those counts.  The charges arose from an incident involving Albright’s manager from his former place of employment.  On June 15, 2014, Albright went to his former manager’s house and made verbal threats to him.  When the manager called police, Albright left and went to a nearby apartment complex in Highspire.  Albright approached a group of people enjoying Father’s Day night and asked if they would kill his boss.  While doing so, he also brandished a large butcher knife.  (They jury acquitted Albright of ethnic intimidation and simple assault by physical menace charges.)

At the sentencing hearing, Senior Deputy District Attorney Jack Canavan stressed the impact the incident had on the victim’s family and how it destroyed their sense of security.  As a result of Albright’s actions, the victim testified at trial that he felt he had to move his family thousands of miles from Highspire (his fiancé and son were lifetime residents of central Pennsylvania) for their own safety.  The victim was unable to return to Dauphin County for the sentencing but provided Judge Curcillo with a victim impact statement.  Canavan highlighted the fact that the statement included the fact that the victim’s seven year old son felt compelled to sleep with a Nerf gun next to his bed to protect the family “in case David came back.”