Last summer, four out-of-town men were charged with felonies for bringing guns to a Gloucester County School Board meeting.
Last week, on July 19, a jury found them not guilty.
The charges stemmed from a previously reported incident at the July 2023 Gloucester School Board meeting. Trevor Herrin, of Williamsburg, came to the podium to offer some words of caution to school board members.
He said someone slashed his tire at the school board meeting the month before. The self-described “experienced political operative” described the tire-slashing as an act of violence and told the School Board they had an opportunity to make things right.
Herrin had a knife visible on the back of his belt, as shown in this Watchful Eye video. But a Gloucester deputy claimed he also spotted a gun. In a statement, Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office said the gun “was only visible as the male left the podium due to his body movements that raised the height of his shirt tail.”
In the parking lot, police confronted Herrin and the men who came to the meeting with him. Police found that, in addition to Herrin, three others had guns. At first, the men refused to disarm, but eventually, they gave up their guns and left.
Herrin, Derek Coblentz, of Prospect, Christopher Cordasco, of Williamsburg, and Antonio Hernandez, of Fishersville, were each charged with carrying a firearm on school property, a Class 6 felony.
The men had a two-day joint trial last week, where they were acquitted of the felony charges.
Here’s how they won their case and what Herrin had to say about the case:
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