Our son was involved in an incident in which him, and 2 other youths had shot out windows in 3 houses with a BB gun back in Feb. 03. Soon after our son was charged & found guilty of another offense, and taken into custody till Aug. 06. About after a year had passed after our son was in placement{mid 04}, the borough's police chief shows up at my door asking for my son, in which he was being charged with the BB Gun incident. I told him that he was in still in placement & he should go there, knowing full well where my son was.
About 3 months later our son was charged with damaging one of the said properties, but contends that he had nothing to with the other two, the other 2 youths did those. He was brought to county court for trial, plead guilty to the one he committed but denied damaging the other two, and signed a statement as to such. Our son was sentenced to do 100 or so hours of community service, and to pay restitution. He did the community service & is making payments on his restitution.
Now our police chief shows up last Monday with a warrant for our son, in which we go before the district justice. The justice says that this is a really old case & he's willing to drop the charges as long as our son pays restitution for the damages. Our son pleads not guilty, and the justice gives us a court date of this coming Monday the 22nd. Today, the borough police chief calls our house, and asks that if our son pays restitution, he wont press criminal charges on our son.
Funny thing, our son works for the borough's Dept. of Streets.
My query is, is there a statute of limitations in Pennsylvania on this type of offense, and if so, what is it?
It seems to me that the borough's police, & justice dropped the ball on this case, and now their trying to clear their unclosed cases, but if the limitations are passed, what can I/We do?
Thank You for Your Time,
J. M.

