LAWYERS SAY ERIE MAN’S CONFESSION SHOULD NOT BE USED IN EVIDENCE

The lawyers for an Erie man who is charged with sex offenses in Westmoreland County say his confession should not be used in evidence as police lied about the circumstances of the interrogation.  The Trib reports that 37-year-old Timothy Colcombe was charged with trying to have sexual relations with a child and her mother from Latrobe, Police said the case involved more than 8,000 text messages, including some in which he sought and shared illicit pictures, from August 2021 and November 2022.  Colcombe’s attorney says his client was asked to discuss sex offender registration allegations related to two prior cases when investigators shifted the topic to new allegations involving the mother and daughter, which they say he did not know he was implicating himself in another crime.  Westmoreland County Common Pleas Judge Tim Krieger said he will rule on the pretrial issues early next year after reviewing written legal arguments from the lawyers.