A woman accused of biting off part of another woman’s ear at a party in 2015 in Jones Township has been found guilty.
An online court docket indicate for Karissa A. Burt, 21, indicates a jury found her guilty of a charge of aggravated assault-cause serious bodily injuries, a first-degree felony, on Jan. 17 in Elk County Court.
The trial was heard before President Judge Richard Masson, who found her guilty of summary charges of harassment and criminal mischief.
Court records filed at the time of her arrest indicated that on Aug. 9, 2015, at a part in the woods near “The Tannery,” Burt encountered a woman leaning on her car. After a confrontation, Burt jumped the woman, biting off part of her ear; she was also accused of biting her in several other places and kicking her in the head and back.
No sentencing date is listed, but the docket indicates that she will be sentenced once a presentence investigation with a forensic mental health evaluation and drug and alcohol assessment is complete.
Masson ordered the presentence investigation be completed by March 15.
Meanwhile, Burt is scheduled to appear for a trial in McKean County Court in the coming months.
In McKean County, she is charged with possession with the intent to deliver a controlled substance, endangering the welfare of a child, possession of a small amount of marijuana for personal use, possession of drug paraphernalia and DUI-controlled substance, all misdemeanors.
According to court records, on April 28 in Kane Borough, a state trooper pulled over a car driven by Burt because it had an expired license plate and the exhaust was hanging off. The trooper allegedly could smell marijuana upon approaching the car. The trooper reported that Burt showed signs of impairment but refused to submit to a blood test.
There was an adult passenger and a 4-year-old boy allegedly in the car at the time she was pulled over. Law enforcement officials searched the vehicle and found a scale, baggies, two bags of marijuana, a marijuana pipe, five burnt marijuana joints and a burnt roach clip, court records stated.
A pretrial conference is scheduled for March 29 in McKean County Court.
Burt is incarcerated in Elk County Jail.
