Charges dropped against Uniontown man
All charges were dropped Tuesday against a Uniontown man accused of striking his ex-girlfriend’s father with his car in July.
Uniontown police Officer Frederick Kampert said Michael Thomas Ream, 18, of 38 Lawn Ave., Uniontown, was charged Sept. 1 by Magisterial District Judge Michael M. Metros with aggravated assault with a motor vehicle, simple assault, harassment and disorderly conduct.
However, those charges were dropped by prosecutors Tuesday following discussions with Ream, the alleged victim, Terry Walkos, and Ream’s attorney. In return, Ream also agreed to drop harassment charges he had filed against Walkos.
Kampert said the charges were filed against Ream after he used his car to strike Walkos, who is also from Uniontown, while Walkos was working on his vehicle on Wine Street around 11:30 p.m. July 11.
Walkos said that Ream, who had been charged with assaulting Walkos’s daughter earlier that day, had driven past him just before returning and using the vehicle to strike him in the left leg and arm.
Kampert said that a witness corroborated Walkos’s account of the incident.
In late August, Fayette County Assistant District Attorney J.W. Eddy said all charges against Ream regarding the assault against Walkos’s daughter, Kayla Walkos, were dropped after she refused to testify against him.
In that case, city police Officer Michael Bittner said Kayla Walkos told police that Ream, who is her ex-boyfriend, punched her in the face and body multiple times and pulled her hair during an assault inside his vehicle.
Bittner noted that Kayla Walkos suffered multiple injuries and was treated at Uniontown Hospital.