Crime & Safety
Felonies Dropped Against Woman Who Threatened to Infect People With HIV
Shanelle Finigan, of Newtown Square, will still face several charges in Norristown Feb. 29.
ARDMORE–The emergency room patient accused of attacking security guards and Lower Merion police officers and threatening to infect people with HIV Dec. 3 learned Thursday she is no longer facing three aggravated assault charges, the most serious of the counts against her.
Shanelle Finigan, 26, of Newtown Square, appeared in , where Judge Kathleen Valentine accepted Lower Merion Officer John Mick's recommendation that the three second-degree felonies be dismissed.
The judge scheduled Finigan to face the remainder of the charges—including simple assault, harassment, disorderly conduct, public intoxication, resisting arrest and escape—at a formal arraignment 9 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29, in the Court of Common Pleas in Norristown.
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In an interview with Patch after the brief court session, Finigan said she wasn't surprised to see the aggravated assault charges dropped, though she was surprised her case would warrant news coverage.
"It is what it is. This is something that shouldn't have even gotten to this," Finigan said. "I don't see this going too badly for me (in Norristown)."
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