NORWICH – The Chenango County District Attorney's Office is considering retrying a sex crime case against a former Sherburne-Earlville bus driver that ended in a mistrial last week.

First Assistant District Attorney Christine Rudy, the lead prosecutor, said the district attorney’s office is planning to retry the defendant, though a final decision has yet to be made.

Following a week-long trial in Chenango County Court, including two days of jury deliberations, the case against defendant Douglas C. Webb was declared a mistrial by Chenango County Court Judge Frank B. Revoir.

Webb, 64-years-old of Sherburne, was charged with first degree offering a false instrument for filing with the intent to defraud, a class E felony. He was also charged with a number of misdemeanors including second degree falsifying business records, three counts of forcible touching and three counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

Webb was initially charged in February of 2022 by the New York State Police after students complained of him touching a number of students inappropriately.

Police investigators said Webb had inappropriately touched three students, then ages 14, 15 and 16, while serving as a bus driver for the S-E School District. Webb was fired and an order of protection was issued to keep him away from the students.

A few days later, police also charged Webb with concealing on hiring documents that he had previously been convicted of second degree sex abuse in Madison County decades earlier.