The ex-husband of one of two state troopers accused in a Facebook hacking incident testified Wednesday in Carbon County Court.

In all, five witnesses were heard in the second day of the trial for Anthony K. Kingsley, 34, and Erin Cawley, 42, before the judge recessed for the day to address legal matters in the case.

Kingsley and his wife Cawley, of Walnutport, were stationed at the Lehighton barracks at the time of the incidents.

They face felony charges, brought by state police at the Fern Ridge barracks. The state police internal affairs division also conducted an investigation,

separate from the criminal charges. Both are currently under suspension since February 2018 when the charges were filed.

The two are accused of using the Facebook accounts of a 42-year-old Jim Thorpe woman with whom Kingsley had an affair. They are charged with printing and deleting some of her private messages from her Facebook Messenger account.

The victim testified Tuesday that she had given Kingsley her password for her Facebook account while they were having an affair. She said she assumed after the affair ended he would not access the account anymore. She admitted Tuesday that she didn’t actually tell Kingsley to stop using the account.

The woman testified she contacted police because she was being harassed by Cawley and Kingsley and when she found out her Facebook had been hacked. She did admit that after the relationship ended she attempted to do things to hurt Cawley in retaliation.

Testimony

Cawley’s ex-husband, Timothy Snyder, an Allentown police officer, testified that the victim contacted him at work. Snyder said the victim told him she had information that might help him in a custody dispute over a son he and Cawley had together.

He said he met with her and the two started dating. He said the relationship ended several months after Cawley had secured a court order prohibiting the victim from having contact with her son.

He said he has not had any contact with the victim for over a year or more.

The next three witnesses were all state troopers who were involved in some area of the investigation.

Martin Ritsick, a retired trooper who was the barracks commander at Lehighton at the time, testified Kingsley came to him on Dec. 12, 2016, and said he wanted to speak to him.

He said he met with Kingsley and Cawley at their then home in the Kunkletown area. He said Kingsley told him that he had sexual relations with the victim while he was on duty. Cawley told Ritsick about her encounter with the victim when she went to her home and confronted her about the affair. She told him Jim Thorpe police responded to the scene.

He said told them to have no more contact with the victim. He said he then notified his superiors and they told him to order an investigation. He assigned the investigation to another trooper.

Sgt. Brian Roberts, who conducted the investigation, said he met with the victim who provided him with entries in her private Facebook account on Jan. 28, 2017. On Jan. 29 the victim gave him more Facebook entries of another man involved in the case who testified at the trial on Tuesday.

He said his investigation was limited in scope due to directives of his superiors.

Logins to account

Sgt. James Youngblood, the prosecutor in the matter, testified he was assigned the investigate the case while working at the criminal unit of the Fern Ridge barracks.

He said the victim had complained that her Facebook account had been hacked and unauthorized use by Cawley and Kingsley.

He said he conducted a full download of the victim’s Facebook account activity with her permission.

Youngblood said there were five logins from an IP address not belonging to the victim which occurred overnight on Jan. 23, three between 3 and 5:30 a.m. He said the victim told him she wasn’t using her account at that time.

Troopers contacted PenTeleData and learned the IP address was assigned to Kingsley’s home, which at the time was in Kunkletown. In April 2017, a search warrant was executed at the home. Kingsley and Cawley willingly handed over their devices and cooperated with investigators, Youngblood said.

Youngblood, under questioning from defense counsels, said he learned about the affair and other contacts between the victim, Cawley and Kingsley, as the investigation continued but said the victim did not bring up that information in his initial interview with her. He said the victim said she gave Kingsley permission to use her account to look up social events.

After Youngblood concluded his testimony, Serfass recessed the trial telling the jury he had several legal matters he had to take up with the attorneys and make some decisions. The trial resumed today.

Kingsley is charged with unlawful use of a computer, computer trespass and criminal conspiracy — unlawful use of a computer. Cawley is charged with criminal conspiracy — unlawful use of a computer and criminal conspiracy - computer trespass.

Both are also charged with summary counts of harassment, which presiding Judge Steven R. Serfass will decide.

The case is being prosecuted by Deputy Attorney General Rebecca Ann Elo. Cawley is being represented by Attorney James A. Swetz and Kingsley by Attorney Brett J. Riegel.