The trial of a McAdoo man, charged with threatening the life of President Donald Trump and Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli, has been continued again. The trial was scheduled to begin Tuesday in Carbon County court with the selection of a jury panel. Shawn Christy, 28, was going to represent himself at the trial. Judge Joseph J. Matika appointed attorney Andrew T. Bench, of the county’s public defender’s office, as standby counsel for Christy but will not participate in the trial except to offer the defendant advice at counsel table.

Christy was going to go on trial facing charges in three pending Carbon cases. However, at the request of Assistant District Attorney Joseph D. Perilli, who is prosecuting the matter, a continuance was granted by Matika. Perilli cited Christy’s pending sentencing in federal court on charges he was convicted of last year at trial.

In October 2019, he was found guilty in federal court in Scranton of 12 charges stemming from a June 2018 threats against Trump and other law enforcement officials.

He was found guilty last year in Schuylkill County court of assaulting the then mayor of McAdoo, Stephan Holly, on May 15, 2017, with a walking stick outside the borough building over his complaints about snow removal. He was sentenced in December 2019 in Schuylkill to serve 12 to 24 months in a state correctional institution on simple assault and harassment charges.

The three cases he faces in Carbon were all filed by state police at Hazleton.

He is accused in a July 7, 2018, incident concerning a break-in at the Hazleton Oil and Environmental in Banks Township; he is accused of an Aug. 23, 2018, break-in of a home in Packer Township; and a Sept. 13, 2018, break-in at Haulmark Industries in Banks Township.

He is facing multiple felony burglary charges along with counts of criminal trespass, criminal attempt and theft in those cases.

He was on the run for several months and accused of various break-ins in Schuylkill and Luzerne counties as well as Carbon.

He was finally captured on Sept. 20, 2018, in Mifflin Township, Ohio, by local law enforcement and U.S. Marshals Service officers.

Christy was scheduled to go on trial twice in 2019 in Carbon, in June and August, but both those trial dates were continued due to other pending legal matters Christy had in other counties and federal charges. He is currently an inmate in the Lackawanna County prison in Scranton.

The Carbon trial has now been scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on March 30.