NORWICH - A Chenango County grand jury met earlier last week to determine indictments for the month of September, 2016 and subsequently decided that there was enough evidence against three individuals to charge them with at least one felony level crime.
• Johanna S. Bailey, 21, of Norwich, was indicted on three separate felony charges. Bailey was charged with one count of unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine in the third degree, a class D felony; one count of criminal possession of precursors of methamphetamine, a class E felony; and one count of criminal nuisance in the first degree, a class E felony.
The top count of the indictment alleges that Bailey, during the months of August and September, 2016, at a residence on Grove Ave., in the City of Norwich, while acting in concert with another, did knowingly and with intent to use, possessed sulfuric acid, sodium hydroxide, a plastic Gatorade bottle and plastic tubing to unlawfully manufacture methamphetamine.
The second count of the indictment alleges that Bailey possessed the precursor pseudoephedrine, in addition to the reagents sulfuric acid and sodium hydroxide to unlawfully manufacture methamphetamine.
The third count alleges that at the aforesaid time and place, Bailey did knowingly and unlawfully allow individuals to gather at her residence for the purpose of engaging in unlawful sales of methamphetamine, a controlled substance. Further, it is alleged that Bailey did benefit monetarily and/or received meth from the controlled substances transactions that took place at her residence.
• William M. Canny, 23, of Binghamton, was indicted on one felony charge as well as one misdemeanor charge. Canny was charged with one count of menacing of a police officer, a class D felony; and one count of criminal possession of a firearm in the fourth degree, a class A misdemeanor.
The top count alleges that Canny, on or about Sept. 2, 2016, at approximately 11:39 a.m. at a residence on Hotchkiss Road, in the Town of Greene, did intentionally place a Chenango County Sheriff's deputy in reasonable fear of physical injury, serious physical injury, or death, when he pointed a Remington 20 gauge pump action shotgun at Deputy Eric Blincoe. The act did occur when the deputy was performing official duties in his marked patrol car.
The second count alleges that at the aforementioned time and place, Canny did possess a loaded Remington 20 gauge pump action shotgun and did intentionally point said shotgun at Chenango County Sheriff's deputy Eric Blincoe.
• Bridget A. Engel, 35, of Binghamton, was indicted on three separate felony counts. Engel was charged with one count of aggravated driving while intoxicated, a class E felony; one count of operating a motor vehicle while she had .08 of one percentum or more by weight of alcohol in her bloodstream, a class E felony; and one count of driving while intoxicated, also a class E felony.
The first and second counts of the indictment allege that Engel, on or about June 7, 2016, at approximately 5:51 p.m., on East Main St., in the Town of Afton, a public highway, did operate a 2013 Mazda MX3, a motor vehicle, while she had .18 of one percentum of alcohol in her bloodstream as shown by a chemical analysis of her breath.
The third count alleges that at the time that the defendant was observed, she swayed as she walked, her speech was slurred, her eyes were bloodshot and watery and her breath smelled strongly of alcoholic beverage.
Also included in Engel's indictment was a special information sheet saying that Engel was previously convicted of misdemeanor DWI in the Rotterdam Town Court on Nov. 14, 2011.