2 Charges Dropped, 2 Forwarded to Trial for Man Accused of Trying to Pee on Police

Two charges were dropped last week against a Morrisville man accused of trying to pee on Bristol Township police in December.

At a preliminary hearing last week for Michael McCarthy, 31, a charge of aggravated harassment by a prisoner and obstructing the administration of law were withdrawn by the prosecution. Charges of institutional vandalism and resisting arrest were waived to county court for trial during the brief court appearance by McCarthy and his public defender.

Police said McCarthy was in a holding cell upstairs at the police station on Bath Road when he began urinating through the cell block bars in an attempt to wet officers. The urine on the floor reportedly caused a slipping hazard for police.

From there, McCarthy used his clothes to stuff a toilet, causing water to overflow the cell, police said. Water began to spill through the police station and down into a computer room filled with workstations, court papers say.

A police community service officer is said to have witnessed the incident.

McCarthy was also disorderly, according to police, and was tasered when he refused to cooperate when police attempted to take his mugshot.

A number of computers and the ceiling below the holding cell were damaged, Lt. Terry Hughes told LevittownNow.com in December.

The cell was the same one used when 29-year-old Matthew Gulick allegedly became aggravated following his arrest and clogged the same toilet in August, Hughes said. The water in that incident damaged carpeting, lighting fixtures, ceiling tiles and other items in the police station. Gulick plead guilty in fall. He is jailed and will pay for the damage, court records say.

A cost for the damage was not yet available as of the preliminary hearing.

McCarthy remains in jail unable to post 10 percent of $30,000 bail.