Authorities alleged last week that Thomas was seen on a video call punching a woman as the two rode in a vehicle in May 2021. He was already facing sexual assault charges in another attack.
Somerset County District Attorney Jeffrey Thomas arrives for his preliminary hearing at the Somerset County Courthouse in Somerset, Pa. on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. SOMERSET, Pa. — A suspended western Pennsylvania prosecutor has been ordered confined on house arrest as he awaits trial in separate sexual assault and assault cases.
Thomas was jailed last week on charges of simple assault, reckless endangerment and harassment after state police alleged that he was seen on a video call punching a woman as the two rode in a vehicle in May 2021. He was already facing sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, unlawful restraint and strangulation charges in an alleged attack on a woman in her Windber home in September.
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