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Patty Ann Hanes on behalf
of her minor children,
Nicole Hanes and Amy Hanes,
Plaintiff
: IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF
:CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYL VANIA
vs.
: No. 00- J.3~("
CIVIL TERM
Robert Hanes,
Defendant
: PROTECTION FROM ABUSE
NOTICE OF HEARING AND ORDER
YOU HAVE BEEN SUED IN COURT. If you wish to defend against the claims set forth in the
following papers, you must appear at the hearing scheduled herein. If you fail to do so, the case may
proceed against you and a FINAL Order may be entered against you granting the relief requested in the
Petition. In particular, you may be evicted from your residence and lose other important rights.
A hearing on this matter is scheduled on the ~day 0=-2000, at ~ff~., in Courtroom No. ;Z
of the Cumberland County Courthouse, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
You MUST obey the Order that is attached until it is modified or terminated by the court after notice
and hearing. If you disobey this Order, the police may arrest you. Violation of this Order may subject you
to a charge of indirect criminal contempt which is punishable by a fine of up to $1,000.00 andlorup to six
months injail under 23 Pa.C.S. ~6114. Violation may also subject you to prosecution and criminal penaltieS
under the Pennsylvania Crimes Code. Under federal law, 18 U.S.C. ~2265, this Order is enforceable
anywhere in the United States, tribal lands, U.S. Territories and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. If you
travel outside of the state and intentionally violate this Order, you may be subject to federal criminal
proceedings under the Violence Against Women Act, 18 U.S.C. ~ 2261-2262.
You should take this paper to your lawyer at once. You have the right to have a lawyer
represent you at the hearing. The court wiD not, however, appoint a lawyer for you. If you do not
have a lawyer or cannot afford one, go to or telephone the office set forth below to f'md out where you
can get legal help. If you cannot find a lawyer, you may have to proceed without one.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION
2 LIBERTY AVENUE, CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA 17013
TELEPHONE NUMBER: (717)249-3166
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT OF 1990
The Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County is required by law to comply with the Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1990. For information about accessible facilities and reasonable accommodations
available to disabled individuals having business before the court, please contact our office. All
arrangements must be made at least 72 hours prior to any hearing or business before the court. You must
attend the scheduled conference or hearing.
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Patty Ann Hanes on behalf
of her minor children,
Nicole Hanes and Amy Hanes,
Plaintiff
:THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
: OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
vs.
:NO. 00-
CIVIL TERM
Robert Allen Hanes,
Defendant
:PROTECTION FROM ABUSE
TEMPORARY PROTECTION FROM ABUSE ORDER
Defendant's Name: Robert Hanes
Defendant's Date of Birth: February 2, 1960
Defendant's Social Security Number: 191-46-4784
Name of Protected Persons: Nicole Christine Hanes
and
Amy Michelle Hanes
AND NOW, this jl~t day of 'i~ ' 2000, upon
consideration of the attached Petition r Protection from Abuse,
the court enters the following Temporary Order:
~ 1. Defendant shall not abuse, harass, stalk or threaten any
of the above persons in any place where they might be found.
~ 2. Defendant is evicted and excluded from Plaintiff's
residence located at 328 Blacklatch Lane, Camp Hill, Cumberland
county, Pennsylvania, a residence which is jointly owned or any
other permanent or temporary residence where Plaintiff may live.
plaintiff is granted exclusive possession of the residence.
Defendant shall have no right or privilege to enter or be present
on the premises, except for the limited purpose of transferring
custody of the parties' children. Defendant shall remain in his
vehicle at all times during the transfer of custody.
~ 3. Except for such contact with the minor children as may be
permitted under Paragraph 5 of this Order, Defendant is
prohibited from having ANY CONTACT with Plaintiff at any
location, including, but not limited to any contact at children's
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school or place of employment.
~ 4. Except for such contact with the minor children as may be
per.mitted under Paragraph 5 of this Order, Defendant shall not
contact the minor children by telephone or by any other means,
including through third persons.
~ 5. Pending the outcome of the final hearing in this matter.
plaintiff is awarded temporary custody of the following minor
children: Nicole Hanes and Amy Hanes.
Until the final hearing, all contact between Defendant and the
minor children shall be limited to the following: None.
~ 6. Defendant shall immediately relinquish the following
weapons to the Sheriff's Office or a designated local law
enforcement agency for the delivery to the Sheriff's Office:
Defendant is prohibited from possessing, transferring or
acquiring firear.ms, shotguns, rifles and any other weapons for
the duration of this Order.
~ 7. The following additional relief is granted:
The Cumberland County Sheriff's Department shall attempt to
make service at Plaintiff's request and without pre-payment of
fees, but service may be accomplished under any applicable Rule
of Civil Procedure.
This Order shall be docketed in the office of the
Prothonotary and forwarded to the Sheriff for service. The
Prothonotary shall not send a copy of this Order to Defendant by
mail.
This Order shall remain in effect until modified or
ter.minated by the Court and can be extended beyond its original
expiration date if the Court finds that Defendant has committed
another act of abuse or has engaged in a pattern or practice that
indicates continued risk of har.m to Plaintiff.
Defendant is required to relinquish to the sheriff any
firear.m license Defendant may possess. Defendant's weapons and
firear.m license may be returned at the expiration of the
Protection Order after Defendant has submitted a written request
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to the Court for the return of the weapons and the Court has
notified Plaintiff of the request and given Plaintiff an
opportunity to respond. A oopy of this Order shall be
transmitted to the ohief or head of the polioe department of
Hummel stown , PA, and the sheriff of Dauphin County.
Defendant is enjoined from damaging or destroying any
property owned jointly by the parties or owned solely by
Plaintiff.
Defendant is to refrain from harassing Plaintiff's relatives
or the minor ohildren.
~ 8. A oertified oopy of this Order shall be provided to the
polioe department where plaintiff resides and any other agenoy
speoified hereafter: Lower Allen Polioe.
o 9. THIS ORDER SUPERSEDES ANY PRIOR PFA ORDER AND ANY PRIOR
ORDER RELATING TO CHILD CUSTODY
10. THIS ORDER APPLIES IMMEDIATELY TO DEFENDANT AND SHALL REMAIN
IN EFFECT UNTIL MODIFIED OR TERMINATED BY THIS COURT AFTER NOTICE
AND HEARING.
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT
Defendant is hereby notified that violation of this Order
may result in arrest for indireot oriminal oontempt, whioh is
punishable by a fine of up to $1,000.00 and/or up to six months
in jail. 23 Pa.C.S. 16114. Consent of Plaintiff to Defendant's
return to the residenoe shall not invalidate this Order, whioh
oan only be ohanged or modified through the filing of appropriate
oourt papers for that purpose. 23 Pa.C.S. 16113. Defendant is
further notified that violation of this Order may subjeot him/her
to state oharges and penalties under the Pennsylvania Crimes Code
and to federal oharges and penalties under the violenoe Against
Women Aot, 18 U.S.C. II 2261-2262. Any proteotion order aranted
by a oourt may be oonsidered in any subseauent prooeedinas.
inoludina ohild oustody prooeedinas. under title 23 (Domestio
Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes.
NOTICE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS
This Order shall be enforoed by the polioe who have
jurisdiotion over Plaintiff's residenoe OR any looations where a
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violation of this order occurs OR where Defendant may be located.
If Defendant violates Paragraphs 1 through 6 of this Order,
Defendant may be arrested on the charge of Indirect Criminal
Contempt. An arrest for violation of this Order may be made
without warrant, based solely on probable cause, whether or not
the violation is committed in the presence of law enforcement.
Subsequent to an arrest, the law enforcement officer shall
seize all weapons used or threatened to be used during the
violation of this Order OR during prior incidents of abuse.
Weapons must forthwith be delivered to the Sheriff's office of
the county which issued this Order, which office shall maintain
possession of the weapons until further Order of this Court,
unless the weapons are evidence of a crime, in which case, they
shall remain with the law enforcement agency whose officer made
the arrest.
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Patty Ann Hanes on behalf
Of her minor children,
Nicole Hanes and Amy Hanes,
Plaintiff
: IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF
:CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYL VANIA
vs.
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CIVIL TERM
Robert Hanes,
Defendant
: PROTECTION FROM ABUSE
PETITION FOR
PROTECTION FROM ABUSE
1. Plaintiff is Patricia Hanes, mother of minor children.
2. This Petition is filed on behalf of Amy and Nicole Hanes, who are Plaintiff's minor
daughters.
3. The names of ALL persons who seek protection from abuse are Nicole and Amy Hanes.
4. Plaintiff's address is 328 Black Latch Lane, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
5. Defendant's address is 4 Fox Run, Hummelstown, Pennsylvania.
Defendant's Social Security Number is 191-46-4784.
Defendant's date of birth is February 2,1960.
Defendant's place of employment is Inclinator Company of America, 2200 Paxton
Street, Harrisburg.
6. Defendant is Plaintiff's spouse and the father of the children.
7. Plaintiff seeks temporary custody of the following children:
Name
Nicole Hanes
Amy Hanes
Address
328 Black Latch Ln.
Camp Hill, P A
Birthdate
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7/9/89
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8. Plaintiff and Defendant are the parents of the following minor children:
Name
Nicole Hanes
Amy Hanes
Age
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10
a) The children were not born out of wedlock.
b) The children are presently in the custody of Plaintiff, Patty Hanes, who resides
at 328 Black Latch Lane, Camp Hill, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
c) During the past five years since their births the children have resided with the
following persons and at the following addresses:
Persons children lived with
Plaintiff and Defendant
Address
213 Allendale Way
Camp Hill, P A
When
1991-1998
Plaintiff and Defendant
328 Black Latch Ln.
Camp Hill, P A
1998- Present
d) Plaintiff, the mother of the children, is currently residing at 328 Black Latch
Lane, Camp Hill, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
e) She is married.
t) Plaintiff currently resides with the following persons:
Name
Nicole Hanes
Amy Hanes
Relationshio
Daughter
Daughter
g) Defendant, the father of the children is currently residing at 4 Fox Run,
Hummelstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
h) He is married.
i) Defendant currently resides with the following person.
Name
Charlotte Hanes
Charles Hanes
Relationship
Mother
Father
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j) Plaintiff has not previously participated in any litigation conceming custody of
the above mentioned children in this or any other Court.
k) Plaintiffhas no knowledge of any custody proceedings concerning there children
pending before a court in this or any other jurisdiction.
1) Plaintiff does not know any person not a party to this action who has physical
custody of the children or claims to have custody or visitation rights with respect to the
children.
m) The best interests and permanent welfare of the minor children will be met if
custody is temporarily granted to Plaintiff pending a hearing in this matter for reasons
including:
1) Plaintiff is a responsible parent who has provided for the
emotional and physical needs of the children since their births,
and who can best take care of the minor children.
2) Defendant has shown by his abuse of Plaintiff and/or children
that he is not an appropriate role model for the minor children.
9. The facts of the most recent incident of abuse are as follows:
On or about Friday, May 26, 2000 at approximately 4:00 PM
Location: marital residence
Defendant became enraged when minor child, Nicole Hanes, asked him
to let her into the garage, and pushed her in the back causing her to stumble
forward. Defendant then pushed Nicole in the back a second time. At this point,
Defendant grabbed minor child by the wrist and pulled her into the house,
locking the door, thereby preventing Plaintiff from entering. Once in the house,
Defendant pushed the minor child in her upper-body, making her fall into a
sitting possession on the couch. Defendant stood above the minor child, yelling
at her and flailing his arms, exacerbating her fear. Fearing for her safety and that
of her child, Plaintiff phoned the police who cited Defendant for summary
harassment of the minor child. The police department advised Plaintiff how to
obtain an emergency Protective Order. District Justice Bender entered an
emergency Protection Order on May 26, 2000 ordering Defendant not to abuse
the minor child and evicted him from the marital residence. See attached exhibit
A incorporated herein by reference.
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10. Defendant has committed the following prior acts of abuse against Plaintiff or the minor
children:
On or about May 25, 2000, Defendant threatened Plaintiff and the minor
children that he would use his hands as his weapons since he no longer had his guns.
Defendant further threatened, however, that he could retrieve his guns from his parents
residence at any time.
11. The following police departments or law enforcement agencies in the area in
which Plaintiff lives should be provided with a copy of the Protection Order: Lower
Allen Township Police.
12. There is an immediate and present danger of further abuse from Defendant.
13. Plaintiff is asking the Court to evict and exclude Defendant from the residence at
which is owned by Defendant and Plaintiff.
WHEREFORE, PLAINTIFF REQUESTS THAT THE COURT ENTER A
TEMPORARY ORDER, AND AFTER HEARING, A FINAL ORDER THAT
WOULD DO THE FOLLOWING:
A. Restrain Defendant from abusing, threatening, harassing, or stalking Plaintiff
and/or minor child in any place where Plaintiff may be found.
B. Evict/exclude Defendant from Plaintiffs residence and prohibit Defendant from
attempting to enter any temporary or permanent residence of the Plaintiff.
C. Award Plaintiff temporary custody oftheminor children and place the following
restrictions or contact between Defendant and children: None.
D. Prohibit Defendant from having any contact with the minor children either in
person, by telephone, or in writing, personally or through third persons, including, but
not limited to, any contact at Plaintiff's current residence, and any residence she may,
in the future, establish for herself, her school, and/or place of employment, except as
the Court may find necessary with respect to partial custody and/or visitation with the
minor children.
E. Order Defendant to temporarily turn over weapons to the Sheriff of this County
and prohibit Defendant from transferring, acquiring or possessing any such firearms
and/or weapons for the duration of the Order.
F. Order Defendant to pay the costs of this action, including filing and service fees.
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G. Order Defendant to pay $250.00 to reimburse one of Legal Services, Inc.'s
funding sources toward the cost oflitigation in this case.
H. Order the following additional relief, not listed above:
Defendant is required to relinquish to the sheriff any firearm license Defendant
may possess. Defendant's weapons and firearm license may be returned at the
expiration of the Protection Order after Defendant has submitted a written
request to the Court for the return of the weapons and the Court has notified
Plaintiff of the request and given Plaintiff an opportunity to respond.
Defendant is enjoined from damaging or destroying any property owned jointly
by the parties or owned solely by Plaintiff.
Defendant is to refrain from harassing Plaintiff's relatives.
I. Grant such other relief as the court deems appropriate.
J. Order the police or other law enforcement agency to serve Defendant with a
copy of this Petition, any Order issued, and the Order for Hearing. The Petitioner will
inform the designated authority of any addresses, other than Defendant's residence,
where Defendant can be served.
Respectfully submitted,
Date: S/gl/rd
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LEGAL SERVICES, INC.
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Carlisle, P A 17013
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PATTY ANN HANES on behalf
of her minor children NICOLE
HANES AND AMY HANES,
PLAINTIFF
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
V.
ROBERT ALLEN HANES,
DEFENDANT
00-3326 CIVIL TERM
IN RE: PROTECTION FROM ABUSE
AND NOW, this
ORDER OF COURT
b"- day of June, 2000, IT IS ORDERED:
(1) The petition of Patty Ann Hanes on behalf of Nicole Hanes and Amy Hanes for the
entry of a protection from abuse order, IS DISMISSED.
(2) The temporary protection from abuse order entered on May 31,2000, with respect
to Nicole Hanes and Amy Hanes, IS DISMISSED.
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Herbert Goldstein, Esquire
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Joan Carey, Esquire
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PLAINTIFF
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
V.
ROBERT ALLEN HANES,
DEFENDANT
00-3326 CIVIL TERM
IN RE: PROTECTION FROM ABUSE
OPINION AND ORDER OF COURT
BEFORE BAYLEY. J.
Bayley, J., June 6, 2000:--
Plaintiff, Patty Ann Hanes, on behalf of her children Nicole Hanes, age 15, and Amy
Hanes, age 10, filed a petition for a protection from abuse order against the father of the
children, defendant Robert Allen Hanes. A temporary ex parte order was entered on May 31,
2000. A hearing on the merits was conducted on June 2, 2000.
Wife previously sought a protection order for herself. On May 15, 2000, following a
hearing on the merits, a protection from abuse order was entered against husband on that
petition. Husband is a competition shooter and he was ordered to turn over his weapons to
the Cumberland County Sheriff. He complied. We denied a request by wife to exclude
husband from the marital residence. Although husband did not then return to live at the
marital residence, he continued to stop by. He locked and barricaded the garage and the
basement so that his wife and children could not gain entry.
On May 24, 2000, wife and Nicole were with defendant on the front porch at the marital
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residence. They both testified that defendant said that his guns were at his parents' house,
where he could get them at anytime, and that even without them he could use his hands as
weapons. Defendant denied making those statements.
On May 25, 2000, two technicians came to the marital residence to service the
swimming pool. Nicole wanted to get some pool chemicals from the garage but could not get
in. She talked to her father by telephone and he told her that the pool people could supply the
chemicals and that she was not allowed into the garage. She threatened to break into the
garage, which prompted her father to go to the residence where he found Nicole, his wife and
two pool technicians. Defendant got into an argument with Nicole and told her to go into the
house. She refused. He then shoved her, grabbed her and took her into the house. While
inside he yelled and flailed his arms while grounding her for the evening. Wife came into the
house and called the police. Defendant went outside and met Officer Leon Crone, of the
Lower Allen Police. Defendant told Officer Crone that his daughter had threatened to break
into the garage and that when he came home they got into an argument about the garage. He
said that he ordered her to go into the house and when she refused he grabbed her and took
her inside. Office Crone testified that he asked both the mother and the daughter what
happened and that they told him virtually the same thing. Neither the daughter nor mother
made any allegations concerning anything that occurred inside the house. Both pool
technicians testified that defendant shoved and grabbed his daughter and took her into the
house where they could hear him arguing with her.
A protection from abuse order requires that "[p]laintiff must prove the allegation of
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abuse by a preponderance of the evidence." 23 Pa.C.S. 961 07(a). The Protection From
Abuse Act, at 23 Pa.C.S. Section 6102(a) defines, "Abuse" as follows:
The occurrence of one or more of the following acts between family or
household members, sexual or intimate partners or persons who share biological
parenthood:
(1) Attempting to cause or intentionally, knowingly or recklessly
causing bodily injury, serious bodily injury, rape, involuntary deviate
sexual intercourse, sexual assault, statutory sexual assault, aggravated
indecent assault, indecent assault or incest with or without a deadly
weapon.
(2) Placing another in reasonable fear of imminent serious
bodily injury.
(3) The infliction offalse imprisonment pursuant to 18 Pa.C.S. 9
2903 (relating to false imprisonment).
(4) Physically or sexually abusing minor children, including such
terms as defined in Chapter 63 (relating to child protection services).
(5) Knowingly engaging in a course of conduct or repeatedly
committing acts toward another person, including following the person,
without proper authority, under circumstances which place the person in
reasonable fear of bodily injury. The definition of this paragraph applies
only to proceedings commenced under this title and is inapplicable to any
criminal prosecutions commenced under Title 18 (relating to crimes and
offenses). (Emphasis added.)
In Chronister v. Brenneman, 742 A.2d 190 (Pa. Super. 1999), a father administered
corporal punishment to his sixteen-year-old daughter by hitting her four or five times with a belt
across the buttock after she admitted lying to him. The daughter testified that the strapping
was painful, it made her cry, and she was frightened and intimidated by the incident and her
father's statement that similar punishment would follow if she continued to break the rules.
The father essentially admitted the relevant facts while asserting that his action was solely
designed to discipline his daughter. The trial court entered a protection from abuse order
which was reversed by the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. The Court, while noting that its
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opinion should not be construed as either an approval or disapproval of the father's choice of
disciplining his daughter, concluded that there was a lack of evidence that his acts were (1)
intended to be anything other than punishment for the daughter who had taxed his patience to
the limit, or (2) of a malevolent infliction of pain, or (3) an attempt to terrorize the daughter so
as to warrant the entry of a protection from abuse order.
In the case sub judice, the father in locking the garage and the basement, which
prevented access by his family, played the role of a schmuck that set the table for the conflict
that was sure to come. Plaintiff, however, has not proven by a preponderance of the evidence
that defendant's conduct with regard to Nicole was anything other than punishment for her
threatening to enter the garage which he told her not to do, and for not following his
instructions in going into the house. The credible evidence also does not support a finding
that defendant placed his daughters in reasonable fear of imminent serious bodily injury based
on the conversation that occurred on May 24, 2000. Accordingly, the following order is
entered.
ORDER OF COURT
AND NOW, this b l. day of June, 2000, IT IS ORDERED:
(1) The petition of Patty Ann Hanes on behalf of Nicole Hanes and Amy Hanes for the
entry of a protection from abuse order, IS DISMISSED.
(2) The temporary protection from abuse order entered on May 31, 2000, with respect
to Nicole Hanes and Amy Hanes, IS DISMISSED.
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Samuel Andes, Esquire
Joan Carey, Esquire
For Plaintiff
Herbert Goldstein, Esquire
For Defendant
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SHERIFF'S RETURN - REGULAR
CASE NO: 2000-03326 P
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA:
COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND
HANES PATTY ANN ET AL
VS
HANES ROBERT
SHANNON SUNDAY
, Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff of
Cumberla'l'ID County, Pensylvania, who being duly sworn accordIng to law,
says, the within PROTECTION FROM ABUSE
was served upon
HANES ROBERT
the
DEFENDANT
, at 0014:25 HOURS, on the 31st day of May
, 2000
at CUMBERLAND CO. SHERIFFS' DEPT. 1 COURTHOUSE SQ
CARLISLE, PA 17013
by handing to
ROBERT HANES
a true and attested copy of PROTECTION FROM ABUSE
together with
NOTICE OF HEARING & ORDER, TEMPORARY
PROTECTION FROM ABUSE ORDER, PETITION
and at the same time directing His attention to the contents thereof.
Additional Comments
WEAPONS CONFISCATED
Sheriff's Costs:
Docketing
Service
Affidavit
Surcharge
18.00
.00
.00
10.00
.00
28.00
So Answers:
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R. Thomas Kline
05/31/2000
Sworn and Subscribed to before
By:
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Deputy Sheriff
me this 1f!::. day of
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P othonotary
Patty Ann Hanes
Plaintiff
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
V.
3326 Civil 2000
Robert Allen Hanes
Defendant
ITEMS: Glock Model 17 88577
Ruger 22 Cal. 218-12830
Ruger 357Cal. 15755326
Beretta Model 84BB D09166Y
Springfield 45 Cal. N304735
ORDER
AND NOW, th;, ,t;ty of ~ 10:0' 0"'.,;, emem'
The protection from abuse order in the above-captioned case having expired on
May 15, 2001, and the defendant having requested the return of the
weapons/firearms held pursuant to the order, and the defendant otherwise being legally
entitled to possess the weapons/firearms, IT IS ORDERED that all weapons/firearms
held by the sheriff shall be returned to the defendant.
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R. Thomas Kline, Sheriff
Cumberland County Sheriff's Office
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