After two days of testimony, a district justice dismissed the burglary and related conspiracy charges. Frank Nocito is the attorney for Joseph Kerekes.

“I am glad any charge is dismissed but we’re going to hold it to, we may have a future filing so we’ll go from there.” WNEP

We never thought the claim that Cuadra stole Bryan Kocis’ Camera made any sense.

Specifically, as we noted, The State clearly had the resources to exactly determine if the camera in Cuadra’s possession once belonged to Bryan Kocis. Since The State appears to have made no attempt whatsoever to conclusively determine if Cuadra had a camera that belonged to Bryan Kocis, it appeared that someone simply hoped that a jury would ASSUME that Cuadra had Bryan Kocis camera based solely on:

1. The claim that Cuadra’s camera looked like Bryan Kocis’ camera; and
2. A post Cuadra made on some messageboard asking for help using a camera

It is odd however, that the preliminary hearing testimony disclosed that someone filed an insurance claim on the property that was “allegedly” stolen from Bryan Kocis’ house.

Traditionally, Insurance Companies have shown that they are more than capable of protecting their interests(like maybe the Insurance Company made note that “photographic equipment” was reportedly still in Bryan Kocis’ house when it was demolished).

An investigation by Bryan Kocis’ insurance company into the claim of stolen property would prove interesting reading though.

Also, it might be noteworthy that Grant Roy apparently testified about Cuadra and Kerekes taking and destroying the Master Cobra Video discs from Bryan Kocis’ House and yet the burglary charges were still dismissed. Hmmmm.