Brittany Abercrombie
June 28, 2024 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — A former deputy with the Brown County Sheriff’s Department, found guilty by an Adams County jury in May of two battery felonies, was sentenced Thursday afternoon to 48 months of probation and no additional jail time. Cody R. Shaffer, 31, of Loraine was found guilty of aggravated domestic battery by strangulation, a Class 2…
Read Full Article May 8, 2024 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Both sides got something — but not everything they hoped for — on Tuesday night when an Adams County jury of six men and six women found a former deputy with the Brown County Sheriff’s Department guilty of two felonies but not guilty of the most serious charge leveled against him. A two-day…
Read Full Article May 8, 2024 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — After hearing Brittany Abercrombie’s harrowing story about what she said happened in the early morning hours of Jan. 27, 2023, an Adams County jury heard a completely different version on Tuesday morning. Cody Shaffer, 31, of Loraine testified on his behalf during the second day of his trial in Adams County Circuit Court…
Read Full Article May 7, 2024 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — An Adams County jury of six men and six women listened to a recording Monday afternoon during which a Loraine woman, nine months pregnant at the time, claims she was strangled, bitten and had a loaded gun shoved into her throat and pointed at her stomach by her boyfriend. The jury trial for…
Read Full Article April 8, 2024 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The trial for a former deputy with the Brown County Sheriff’s Department charged with beating his nine-month pregnant girlfriend with a pistol was continued for one month after the defense learned one of the prosecution’s witnesses started taking Xanax three days ago. Cody R. Shaffer, 31, of Loraine appeared in Adams County Circuit…
Read Full Article April 7, 2024 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The trial for a former deputy with the Brown County Sheriff’s Department charged with three felonies, including beating his nine-month pregnant girlfriend with a pistol, will begin Monday in Adams County Circuit Court. Cody R. Shaffer, 31, of Loraine has been charged with: Jury selection will begin Monday, April 8. The judge will…
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