Guilty! Brian David Hampel, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (arrested Oct 2016) [DUI, corruption of minors]

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    Guilty or not?​
    • Guilty: Only for the DUI, sentenced to house arrest
    • Charges dropped: Corruption of minors -- the defendent later won settlements of $84,000 from the school district for improper termination and $750,000 from Luzerne County for malicious prosecution
    We'll be filing this under Other Improper Behaviors since DUI was the only charge that stuck.

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    Brian Hampel (Harris Pond Road, Sweet Valley, Pennsylvania), 46, shop teacher at James M. Coughlin High School, Wilkes-Barre Area School District, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, DUI & "corruption of minors"


    False allegations! Coughlin High School teacher suspended over alleged inappropriate behavior

    The Wilkes-Barre Area School District has suspended a Coughlin High School teacher with pay in response to an independent investigation that uncovered allegations of inappropriate behavior, school officials said Wednesday. Superintendent Bernard Prevuznak and solicitor Raymond Wendolowski said they could not identify the suspended teacher because of restrictions in place to keep personnel matters confidential. They said the district informed the state Department of Education and ChildLine — a 24-hour, toll-free telephone reporting service — of the allegations. Educators and child-care professionals are required to report suspected child abuse when they or their agency is responsible for the care and ...


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    False allegations! Coughlin teacher suspended for alleged inappropriate behavior

    The Wilkes-Barre Area School District has suspended a Coughlin High School teacher with pay in response to an independent investigation that uncovered allegations of inappropriate behavior, school officials said Wednesday. Superintendent Bernard Prevuznak and solicitor Raymond Wendolowski said they could not identify the suspended teacher because of restrictions in place to keep personnel matters confidential. They said the district informed the state Department of Education and ChildLine — a 24-hour, toll-free telephone reporting service — of the allegations. Educators and child-care professionals are required to report suspected child abuse when they or their agency is responsible for the care and ...


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    Brian Hampel, Sweet Valley, Pennsylvania, James M. Coughlin High School, Wilkes-Barre Area School District, Wilkes-Barre
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    False allegations! Ex-Coughlin High School shop teacher charged with corruption of minors

    A former Coughlin High School shop teacher and alleged lookout for convicted ex-Coughlin teacher Stephen F. Stahl has been charged with corruption of minors. Brian David Hampel, 46, of Harris Pond Road, Sweet Valley, was arraigned Monday before District Judge Joseph Spagnuolo. According to court documents, an investigation by Luzerne County detectives revealed Hampel had inappropriate relationships with students. He allegedly visited parties held by Coughlin students at a home in Bear Creek that were held regularly on weekends. Police said two witnesses advised them Hampel was “one of us” at the parties. Hampel allegedly brought half kegs and/or cases ...


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    False allegations! Teacher Fondled Student at Teen Drinking Party, According to Court Papers

    Another Coughlin teacher has been charged after allegedly having relations with a student. Brian Hampel, 46, of Sweet Valley was charged Monday evening. Hampel's facing a charge of corruption of minors, accused of having a sexual relationship with a student. Hampel was a teacher at Coughlin High School in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District. According to court papers, he bought alcohol for students and regularly attended student drinking parties where he was seen kissing and fondling a teenage girl. Just last week, another Coughlin teacher was arrested and charged with attending student drinking parties and having a sexual relationship with ...


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    False allegations! Teacher fondled student at teen drinking party, according to court papers

    Another Coughlin teacher has been charged after allegedly having relations with a student. Brian Hampel, 46, of Sweet Valley was charged Monday evening. Hampel's facing a charge of corruption of minors, accused of having a sexual relationship with a student. Hampel was a teacher at Coughlin High School in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District. According to court papers, he bought alcohol for students and regularly attended student drinking parties where he was seen kissing and fondling a teenage girl. Just last week, another Coughlin teacher was arrested and charged with attending student drinking parties and having a sexual relationship with ...


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    False allegations! Police: Former teacher had relationship with student

    The "lookout" got locked up Monday. Former Coughlin High School teacher Brian Hampel — accused of covering up a fellow teacher's student sex scandal years ago — now faces accusations he had his own sexual relationship with a student. In addition to "indecent contact" with a teenage girl, investigators accuse Hampel of routinely providing kegs of beer for and attending underage drinking bashes held by Coughlin students between 2003 and 2005. Luzerne County detectives arrested Hampel late Monday afternoon and charged him with a single count of corruption of minors. Hampel, 46, was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Joseph Spagnolo ...


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    False allegations! Police: Former Luzerne County teacher had relationship with student

    The teacher was not identified in arrest papers. The student who Hampel purportedly had a relationship with is identified in arrest papers only as “Victim 1.” She was 16 or 17 at the time, investigators said. Officials with the Wilkes-Barre Area School ...


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    False allegations! Police: Former Luzerne County teacher had relationship with student

    The “lookout” got locked up Monday. Former Coughlin High School teacher Brian Hampel — accused of covering up a fellow teacher’s student sex scandal years ago — now faces accusations he had his own sexual relationship with a student. In addition to “indecent contact” with a teenage girl, investigators accuse Hampel of routinely providing kegs of beer for and attending underage drinking bashes held by Coughlin students between 2003 and 2005. Luzerne County detectives arrested Hampel late Monday afternoon and charged him with a single count of corruption of minors. Hampel, 46, was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Joseph Spagnolo ...


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    False allegations! Cops: Ex-teacher had inappropriate relationship with student

    ... high school teacher who was fired for allegedly acting as a "lookout" while another teacher sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl has now been charged with having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Brian Hampel was arraigned on Monday on ...


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    False allegations! Cops: Ex-teacher had inappropriate relationship with student

    A former Pennsylvania high school teacher who was fired for allegedly acting as a "lookout" while another teacher sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl has now been charged with having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Brian Hampel was arraigned on Monday on corruption of minors charges. Court documents allege Hampel bought alcohol for students and regularly attended student parties. Witnesses told investigators Hampel kissed and fondled an underage girl during at least one party. The Wilkes-Barre Area School Board fired the Coughlin High School teacher last month. Hampel testified at the trial of teacher Stephen Stahl, who was convicted last ...


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    False allegations! Luzerne County D.A.: Any Little Piece of Info ‘Can Be Important to an Investigation’

    A former teacher in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District now faces a corruption of minors charge. That makes two teachers charged within a week. Both are former employees of the district, and both worked at the same school. In recent weeks, there have also been similar cases in other districts in Luzerne County. Court papers show Brian Hampel of Sweet Valley bought alcohol for student drinking parties and was seen kissing and fondling a teenage girl. The allegations date back to 2004. The school district superintendent told Newswatch 16: “An internal investigation initiated by the Wilkes-Barre Area School District in ...


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    After he's been perp-walked and dragged through the mud multiple times, the case finally crumbles!


    Corruption of minors charges dropped against ex-Coughlin shop teacher

    A corruption of minors charge leveled against a former Coughlin High School shop teacher was dismissed by a county judge Tuesday, clearing the ex-educator of allegations he fondled an underage student at a house party more than a decade ago. Brian Hampel, 47, of Sweet Valley, was arrested on the charge in October, about a month after the Wilkes-Barre Area School Board voted to terminate him amid allegations of misconduct. Hampel was accused of acting as a lookout during disgraced former Coughlin administrator Stephen Stahl’s sexual encounters with a 16-year-old student. Hampel, whose basement classroom neighbored Stahl’s, testified at Stahl’s ...


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    Charges against former Coughlin teacher dismissed

    The alleged "lookout" is off the hook — at least for now. Former Coughlin High School teacher Brian Hampel — accused of covering up a fellow teacher's student sex scandal years ago — saw a misdemeanor corruption of minors charge he faced for allegedly fondling a student dismissed on Tuesday after prosecutors acknowledged in court documents they didn't think they could prove the case. His attorney, Al Flora Jr., questioned why prosecutors pursued the charge since Hampel's arrest in October if they didn't think they had the evidence. "They don't have evidence to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, ...


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    And the real legal battle begins!


    Former Coughlin teacher files suit against 2 county detectives

    The former Coughlin High School teacher once at the center of a student sex case that was eventually abandoned is suing two Luzerne County detectives for alleged malicious prosecution to "destroy his career and reputation." Lawyers for Brian Hampel filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday, claiming detectives Charles Balogh and Debbie Parker arrested him without probable cause and despite denials by his alleged victim of any improper contact. The prosecution's case relied heavily on the claims of two confidential informants — former classmates of the alleged victim — who struck favorable deals with the prosecution in their own criminal cases ...


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    County detectives sued by former Coughlin teacher once charged in student sex case

    A former Coughlin teacher once accused of sexual misconduct with a female student sued two Luzerne County detectives this week for allegedly omitting facts in a sworn affidavit — including the teen’s denials it ever happened. Brian Hampel, a teacher in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District for 18 years before his firing last year, claimed county detectives Charles Balogh and Debbie Parker knew they lacked probable cause to charge the 45-year-old with corruption of minors, but did so anyway in an attempt to smear his career. “Had the exculpatory facts been included in the affidavit of probable cause, it would ...


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    Meanwhile there arises the slight problem of his 5th DUI arrest. If I'd been put though what they did to him, I'll probably be drinking, too.


    Former WB Area teacher Brian Hampel charged with DUI

    A former Wilkes-Barre Area teacher was accused of drunken driving last weekend, his fifth similar charge since 2002, court records say. Harveys Lake police said Brian Hampel, 47, of Sweet Valley, was stopped when he failed to obey a stop sign at Old Lake Road and Lakeside Drive just after 1 a.m. Feb. 4. Police allege Hampel displayed signs of intoxication and had an odor of alcohol on his breath. When Hampel was asked if he consumed alcohol, he simply raised his arms in the air, according to a criminal complaint. Hampel was given a portable breath test that returned ...


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    Also worth noting at the end of this article is that he has received $84,000 in compensation for his firing -- a step in the right direction, but there is more to come.


    Former W-B Area teacher facing fifth DUI charge

    The former Wilkes-Barre Area School District teacher who was accused of covering up a fellow teacher’s student sex scandal years ago was hit this week with driving under the influence charges — for the fifth time. Brian D. Hampel, 45, of 25 Harris Pond Road, Sweet Valley, was arrested early Sunday morning after police say he blew a 0.246 percent on a field breath test — more than three times the legal limit for driving. According to a police affidavit, a Harveys Lake police officer saw Hampel run a stop sign at Old Lake Road and Lakeside Drive shortly after ...


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    Alleged student sex 'lookout' gets house arrest for DUI

    The former Wilkes-Barre Area School District teacher who was accused of covering up a fellow teacher’s student sex scandal was sentenced Wednesday to house arrest after pleading guilty in his fifth drunken driving case. Brian D. Hampel, 48, of 25 Harris Pond Road, Sweet Valley, was arrested after police saw him run a stop sign in Harveys Lake early the morning of Feb. 4. Prosecutors say he blew a 0.246 percent on a field breath test — more than three times the legal limit for driving. Court records show Hampel pleaded guilty in July to a misdemeanor count of driving ...


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    The former Wilkes-Barre Area School District teacher who was accused of covering up a fellow teacher’s student sex scandal was sentenced Wednesday to house arrest after pleading guilty in his fifth drunken driving case. Brian D. Hampel, 48, of 25 Harris Pond Road, Sweet Valley, was arrested after police saw him run a stop sign in Harveys Lake early the morning of Feb. 4. Prosecutors said he blew a 0.246 percent on a field breath test — more than three times the legal limit for driving. Court records show Hampel pleaded guilty in July to a misdemeanor count of driving ...


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    Ex-teacher: Prosecutors tried to coerce sex abuse claim

    A former Coughlin High School teacher, once accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with a student, is seeking a summary judgment in his malicious prosecution lawsuit against county prosecutors, claiming they tried to coerce a teenage girl into fabricating a sexual abuse claim. Brian Hampel, through his attorneys Barry H. Dyller and Theron J. Solomon, filed the motion on Wednesday in federal court, accusing Luzerne County detectives Charles Balogh and Debbie Parker of having “tunnel vision” in the case, saying that the only evidence against Hampel came from three unreliable witnesses — also suggesting that interviews with 46 other witnesses ...


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    $750K settlement approved in malicious prosecution case

    A federal magistrate signed off Thursday on a $750,000 settlement in a malicious prosecution lawsuit brought by a former Coughlin High School teacher who was publicly accused of acting as a "lookout" in a student sex scandal and sexually abusing a teenage girl. Attorneys Barry H. Dyller and Theron J. Solomon, of the Wilkes-Barre law firm Dyller & Solomon, alleged Luzerne County detectives Charles Balogh and Debbie Parker pressured a teenage girl to say former teacher Brian Hampel molested her, despite the girl's insistence that it never happened. Luzerne County Council agreed to the $750,000 settlement during a meeting last ...


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    $750K settlement approved in malicious prosecution case

    A federal magistrate signed off Thursday on a $750,000 settlement in a malicious prosecution lawsuit brought by a former Coughlin High School teacher who was publicly accused of acting as a "lookout" in a student sex scandal and sexually abusing a teenage girl. Attorneys Barry H. Dyller and Theron J. Solomon, of the Wilkes-Barre law firm Dyller & Solomon, alleged Luzerne County detectives Charles Balogh and Debbie Parker pressured a teenage girl to say former teacher Brian Hampel molested her, despite the girl's insistence that it never happened. Luzerne County Council agreed to the $750,000 settlement during a meeting last ...


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    $750K settlement approved in malicious prosecution case

    A federal magistrate signed off Thursday on a $750,000 settlement in a malicious prosecution lawsuit brought by a former Coughlin High School teacher who was publicly accused of acting as a "lookout" in a student sex scandal and sexually abusing a teenage girl. Attorneys Barry H. Dyller and Theron J. Solomon, of the Wilkes-Barre law firm Dyller & Solomon, alleged Luzerne County detectives Charles Balogh and Debbie Parker pressured a teenage girl to say former teacher Brian Hampel molested her, despite the girl's insistence that it never happened. Luzerne County Council agreed to the $750,000 settlement during a meeting last ...


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