NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (WKTV) - The family of murdered New Hartford Police Officer Joseph Corr will have to wait until next year to see the final two people that have been charged with his death be brought to justice.  

It seems almost unbelievable that Officer Corr will have been dead three years by the time Marion Pegeuse and Robert Ward answer charges for the crime in Oneida County.

The two are being held in Freehold, New Jersey on charges of robbing a jewelry store there.  Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara says there have been numerous delays at the request of their defense attorneys in New Jersey and their robbery trial there is not expected to start until January. 

It is not until the completion of that trial that local prosecutors will be able to bring Pegeuse and Ward to Oneida County to answer charges related to Officer Corr's murder and the Lennons W.B. Wilcox Jewelry Store Robbery.

McNamara says his office is making the best possible use of the delay by preparing for what will be a much more complicated case than that of defendant Toussaint Davis, who is serving a 300 year sentence for the crimes.

"This is a lot more complicated than the first trial because in the first trial the individual was caught here; he was apprehended at the Byrne Dairy, where this case, that isn't the situation," McNamara said.

An arrest warrant for Robert Ward in connection with the local case was issued in May of 2006. An arrest warrant for Marion Pegeuse was issued two months later.
 
It is possible that these men will be brought to Oneida County to answer local charges on or around the 3rd anniversary of Officer Corr's murder.