WESB Reports:
Three Chautauqua County residents who had been jailed since August after admitting they helped fugitive Ralph "Bucky" Phillips were released this week after pleading guilty. 24-year-old Natasha Berg, 44-year-old Alice Ann Kelly, and 49-year-old Timothy Seekings, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of attempting to hinder prosecution. They were sentenced to time served, and set free. The three were arrested after Phillips led a state trooper on a motorcycle chase to their second-floor flat the night of August 19, 2006. Phillips ditched the motorcycle and ran into the house before sneaking out the back. The incident occurred two months after Phillips shot State Trooper Sean Brown during a traffic stop near Elmira, and 12 days before he shot troopers Donald Baker Jr. and Joseph Longobardo. Longobardo died three days later. Investigators learned that Phillips had stayed in the apartment for at least a day. Phillips is serving a life sentence in an eastern New York correctional facility.
From WESB.com