A Warren man already sentenced to serve more than 8 years in prison won’t serve additional time after alleging an inmate in the Warren County Jail had ties to a drowning.

Judge Gregory Hammond of the Court of Common Pleas chose not to prosecute charges of misdemeanor false report – falsely incriminating another and unsworn falsification to authorities lodged against Charlie J. Campbell, 47, of Warren in April. According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by the State Police at Warren, Campbell wrote a letter to the State Police in April 2025 claiming to have been a witness to a 2024 drowning in Minister Creek at North Center Street in Sheffield.

In May, Campbell was interviewed by a state trooper and repeated the claims while providing a second written statement of the incident. Campbell recanted his story in July when the State Police scheduled a polygraph examination with a new written statement.

“Prior to the polygraph examination, Campbell declared he did not wish to participate in the polygraph examination,” the Affidavit of Probable Cause states.

The day after Hammond dropped charges related to the false statement, Campbell was sentenced to 6 to 12 months of additional prison time after pleading guilty to a charge of simple assault, though a more serious third-degree felony charge of aggravated harassment by prisoner and misdemeanor terroristic threats with intent to terrorize another were not prosecuted. According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, Campbell had been accused of instigating an incident with another inmate while the two men were jailed at the Warren County Prison in January. Campbell was accused of threatening to kill the other inmate and then later spitting at the other man’s face.

Campbell was sentenced to 100 to 200 months of confinement with credit for 441 days time already served to satisfy the plea to persons not to possess, use firearms and 2 to 4 years to satisfy the plea for terroristic threats with intent to terrorize others by Hammond in September.

Campbell was transferred from the State Correctional Institute at Camp Hill and then the State Correctional Institute at Forest to appear in court on Nov. 14 for sentencing.