ALLENTOWN, Pa. — State prosecutors on Friday ended their case against a city police officer accused of sex crimes.
Sgt. Evan Weaver, 46, of Weisenberg Township, exited Lehigh County Court with his family after the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office dropped all charges against him.
Weaver was arraigned in January 2025 on a dozen charges, including rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, witness intimidation and several misdemeanors.
Half of those charges were dropped before Friday’s pre-trial hearing, during which state prosecutor Julianne Danchak dropped the rest.
Prosecutors alleged Weaver and former Allentown officer Jason Krasley sexually assaulted the same woman from 2011 to 2015.
The woman, now 33, testified for several hours during an April hearing about her interactions with Weaver and Krasley, who worked together on the Allentown Police Department’s Vice and Intelligence Unit.
“There has always been the promise of cooperation but never the follow-through."Julianne Danchak, state prosecutor
She testified she performed sexual acts to avoid arrests on multiple occasions.
But Danchak on Friday said the woman is no longer cooperating with investigators, despite repeated attempts.
State prosecutors “weren’t able to make any progress with her” during a Nov. 20 meeting, Danchak said.
She is no longer in Pennsylvania, and prosecutors don’t believe she will obey further subpoenas ordering her participation, according to Danchak.
“There has always been the promise of cooperation but never the follow-through,” Danchak said. He said the woman now is “not even responding” to authorities.
Judge Thomas Caffrey dismissed all charges against Weaver without prejudice, which means prosecutors could re-file.
Weaver 'lived a nightmare': Attorney
Joshua Karoly, Weaver’s attorney, said he was prepared to go to trial to clear his client, whose innocence they’ve “always maintained.”
Karoly said Weaver “has lived a nightmare this past year” and thanked those who supported Weaver since his arrest in January 2025.
“I remain steadfast in my support of Sgt. Weaver. Upon his promotion to the rank of sergeant in January 2024, I commended his integrity and character — a sentiment I reaffirm today without reservation.”Allentown Police Chief Charles Roca
“For the past year, many in the community stood by Sgt. Weaver,” he said. “Their support has meant more than words can convey.”
The state Attorney General’s Office also on Friday dropped eight charges against Krasley that stemmed from the woman’s allegations.
Allentown Police Chief Charles Roca on Friday afternoon celebrated the end of Weaver’s legal battle.
“I remain steadfast in my support of Sgt. Weaver,” Roca said in a prepared statement. “Upon his promotion to the rank of sergeant in January 2024, I commended his integrity and character — a sentiment I reaffirm today without reservation.”
Roca said he looks forward to Weaver returning to full duty on the Allentown police force.
Prosecutor takes the witness stand
After Weaver left the courtroom with his family, Danchak and Krasley’s defense attorney spent the rest of the morning arguing whether a cyberattack at the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office should allow prosecutors more time to turn over evidence against the former officer.
“You want me on the witness stand?"Julianne Danchak, state prosecutor
Phil Holbrook, a supervisory special agent with the AG’s office, testified about an August 2025 cyberattack that crippled much of its technology, including servers that store evidence and allow agents to coordinate.
But Judge Caffrey ruled Holbrook could not testify directly to its effects on operations at the Attorney General’s office in Allentown, where Danchak works.
He ordered the state prosecutor to take the witness stand to testify about the cyberattack and asked her colleague, Senior Deputy Attorney General Jaime Keating, to lead the questioning.
“You want me on the witness stand?” Danchak said.
“Yes, I do,” Caffrey said.
Danchak testified she was assigned the now-dropped cases against Weaver and Krasley in late August, shortly after the cyberattack started.
Danchak said she “wasn’t really able to do anything” with the case, other than read files, until September.
That’s when she started to receive discovery files directly from the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office rather than from the Attorney General’s office.
The prosecutor said she worked to get all discovery to defense attorneys by court-imposed deadlines, but the cyberattack forced her to use Microsoft Paint to manually redact sensitive information before sharing it.
The Attorney General’s Office is asking for more time to finish handing over all discovery documents.
Burke was set to cross-examine his counterpart Friday afternoon after a lunch break.
