Adah woman admitted to diversionary program
An Adah woman accused of threatening a confidential informant involved in a drug case against a former Redstone Township pharmacist has been admitted to a pretrial diversionary program.
Ruth Ann Wilson, 54, was charged with two counts each of intimidation of a witness or victim, terroristic threats and harassment after she made telephone calls threatening the woman who aided police in their investigation of alleged illegal drug sales at Redstone Pharmacy.
Senior Judge Ralph C. Warman admitted Wilson to the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD) program, which is generally for first-time, non-violent offenders. The program offers offenders an opportunity to serve a term of probation — in Wilson’s case, six months — in exchange for having their court record expunged.
Taking part in the program does not constitute an admission of guilt.
At Wednesday’s hearing, Warman told Wilson, “This is a fairly serious charge, a felony of the third degree for which you could go to jail for seven years.”
If Wilson violates the terms of the ARD program, she could find herself at square one, facing prosecution for the charges.
According to Capt. Stephen Cooper of the Fayette County Drug Task Force, Wilson made two threatening telephone calls, both in July, to the confidential informant.
In the calls, Cooper said Wilson called the informant a snitch and threatened to harm her and her family if she testified in the case against Edward Wilcox.
Wilcox, 62, of Uniontown, the owner of Redstone Pharmacy, was charged with selling Vicodin or Xanax to the informant on nine occasions between February 2011 and May 2012.
He pleaded guilty and on Monday was sentenced to four years of probation beginning with 90 days of house arrest.