NORRISTOWN — A Montgomery County judge issued an arrest warrant for a Berks County man who failed to appear for bail revocation and sentencing hearings on charges he illegally possessed a firearm in Upper Hanover Township.
Richard Birkmire, 40, of the 600 block of Main Street, Bally, failed to show up for his sentencing hearing in Montgomery County Court on Wednesday, leaving intact a warrant for his arrest that had been issued the previous week by Judge William R. Carpenter when Birkmire didn’t show up for a bail revocation hearing.
The warrant gives sheriff’s deputies the authority to search for and take Birkmire into custody so he can be brought before the judge…