Holloway Mayor Joseph Schaeffer sentenced to jail for aggravated menacing
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Holloway Mayor Joseph Schaeffer, who was found guilty of threatening to blow up the Belmont County Courthouse, will spend 10 days in the Belmont County Jail for aggravated menacing. According to testimony at his trial in Belmont County Western Division Court, Schaeffer threatened to blow up the courthouse during multiple phone calls made to the Belmont County Auditor’s Office this past February. He originally was charged with aggravated menacing and inducing panic but was found innocent by a jury of inducing panic. Belmont County Western Division Court Judge Eric ...