Nicolette Joann Holzer (Provided photo)
CLEARFIELD – A Pittsburgh woman who once tried to jump out a courthouse window to avoid going to jail was in court again Thursday.
Nicolette Joann Holzer, 35, 49 Albert St., Pittsburgh, was allegedly involved with an area drug ring and had two cases pending against her in March when her bail was revoked because she failed a drug test. She smashed a window in the courthouse saying “I just want to die,” according to the affidavit.
In this case, she is charged with criminal attempt/escape, resisting arrest, four counts of disorderly conduct, and criminal mischief. She is incarcerated at the county jail in lieu of $100,000 bail for these charges. For more on this case click here.
Holzer’s attorney, Daniel Koniecza, argued in a hearing Thursday before President Judge Fredric J. Ammerman for her bail to consolidated.
In her first case, she is charged with a felony count of manufacture/delivery/possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, hindering apprehension, criminal conspiracy and possession of drug paraphernalia. Holzer’s bail had been revoked and re-set at $350,000 on Jan. 7 in this case. She posted that amount Jan. 11, according to previously published reports.
In the second drug case, she is charged with two felony counts of manufacture/delivery/possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, dealing in proceeds of unlawful acts and criminal use of communication facility. Her bail in this case, which she had previously posted, was $250,000.
David Gorman of the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office argued Thursday that she shouldn’t be let out of jail because she had committed another offense when she was first out on bail and she had violated her bail a second time by using drugs.
Ammerman denied the motion to consolidate bail, according to F. Cortez “Chip” Bell, the Clearfield County Court Administrator. However, Ammerman did agree to continue the cases until the next term of court.
The charges in the first drug case stem from an incident July 28 at a motel in Allegheny County when she was taken into custody with Robert Selfridge who was already wanted by police for failing to turn himself in on gun charges and for not attending a hearing.
When they were caught at the motel he had in his possession a gram of methamphetamine and $2,136 in cash. Bags taken from his motel room contained four bags of crystal methamphetamine, black tar heroin, a shotgun, drug packaging materials, glassine bags, marijuana and forged identification with Selfridge’s photo, according to a grand jury testimony.
In a second case, Holzer, who was already on bail for the first case, met with an informant who had been allegedly selling meth for Holzer to receive payment.
According to that affidavit of probable cause, on Oct. 5 an undercover officer and an agent of the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office were investigating an individual caught with methamphetamine and over $8,000 in cash. This individual told them he/she was selling the drugs for Holzer.
Two days earlier, this person claimed to have gotten three ounces of methamphetamine to sell from Holzer, who was expecting payment of $4,650 for it.
The individual became a confidential informant and a meeting was set up with Holzer in a DuBois grocery store parking lot. Holzer and another man showed up in a black vehicle that had been previously described by the informant.
The informant met with Holzer and gave her an envelope with $1,505 in it. Police then executed a stop of the vehicle and arrested all three participants.