BY ROBERT L. BAKER

Charges filed against aWyomingCountydeputy sheriff and part-timeTunkhannockTownshippoliceman last month inSusquehannaCountywere withdrawn Monday.

Susquehanna County District Attorney Jason Legg contacted Magisterial District Judge Suzanne Brainard and said that Corey F. Sidorek, 26, of RR1, Monroe Township,  had “engaged in significant negotiations” with the alleged victim and defense counsel prior to and during a resolution hearing on Jan. 31.

An agreement to withdraw the charges was based on two conditions being met.

Sidorek “was to make restitution to the victim in the amount of $12,000,” which included what Sidorek is alleged to have owed – reported in a criminal complaint filed Jan. 17 as $7,977.99 – along with a collateral case involving Heather Thomas, the mother of his son.

The second condition was that “the parties would attend family counseling to work toward a reunification that would allow the parties to move forward together as a family.”

Legg said Monday afternoon that the victim had received the check and “Further, I confirmed with the victim that the parties had moved forward with family counseling.”

“For these reasons,” Legg wrote in his letter to Judge Brainard, “the Commonwealth hereby withdraws the criminal complaint in this matter.”

Sidorek was hired byTunkhannockTownshipas a part-time patrolman last October.

He also has worked for a time with theWyomingCountysherriff’s office.