EMPORIUM — On Tuesday in Cameron County Court, probation was revoked for a man under the supervision of the probation department who was convicted of additional crimes in Elk County last month.
Luke Thomas Romanowski, 25, with addresses listed in Johnsonburg and Emporium, will be resentenced on charges from 2014 following his entrance of a guilty plea in two cases stemming from incidents that occurred in St. Marys.
The two cases listed identical charges against Romanowski, with one case stemming from an incident on Aug. 31, and the other on Sept. 5. Counts of indecent exposure, open lewdness and disorderly conduct were charged in both cases.
The cases were expected to go to trial, but on April 2, Romanowski entered a guilty plea to two counts of indecent exposure, one from each incident.
Being convicted on those charges violated the terms of Romanowski’s probation, which he had been subject to since pleading guilty to one count of disseminating explicit sexual material with a minor involved in 2014. The Commonwealth had also filed a petition to revoke his probation in a case from 2015 in which Romanowski pleaded guilty to statutory sexual assault of an individual four to eight years younger than himself. However, he hit his maximum sentence while being held on this probation violation and that petition was withdrawn.
Romanowski was not sentenced during Tuesday’s hearing, as his attorney, Beau Groves, requested a pre-sentence investigation be completed to assess needs and identify issues as part of probable treatment recommendations.
Cameron and Elk counties President Judge Richard Masson ordered Romanowski to undergo an evaluation through the program Project Point of Light, which specializes in assessment, counseling and treatment of sexual offenders, individuals with problematic sexual behavior and victims of sexual abuse, according to the organization’s website. This special condition is part of the sentencing order for the indecent exposure cases, which also includes a jail sentence of between 132 days and two years, followed by two years of probation.
No hearing date has been set for further proceedings related to Romanowski’s case, but court officials stated that a resentencing hearing would likely be held in about 90 days, though the Point of Light assessment may not be completed by that time.
