SCRANTON - The lack of a court stenographer resulted in postponement of preliminary hearings Monday for three city residents accused of beating and robbing another man as he was walking home from a bar on April 25.
Timothy Towers, 25, 928 Beech St., Bianca Rivera, 20, same address, and Manfredo Pagan, 18, 1418 Linden St., were scheduled to testify before Magisterial District Judge John Mercuri. A new court date has not been scheduled.
Police say the three followed Kenneth Otto home from the Rusty Nail, 732 S. Irving Ave., beat him and stole his house keys, about $6 and a pack of Newport 100s, police said.