Hearing scheduled for Mifflinburg man...

LEWISBURG — A Mifflinburg man sentenced to 193 months to 71 years in state prison for sexually assaulting a teenage girl will appear in Union County Court next month for unrelated financial theft charges.Timothy Alan Dowhower, 45, of Conley Road, Mifflinburg, is scheduled to appear at a pretrial conference at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 13 in front of Union County Judge Michael Piecuch. Dowhower, a former marketing director at the Susquehanna River Valley Visitors Bureau, is accused of taking $870,000 from the organization.State police in Milton allege that Dowhower created a fake marketing company and directed nearly $870,000 to his bank accounts between 2018 and 2024. He also allegedly used a bureau credit card to pay for a monthly subscription to a sexually explicit website depicting nude children and adults. He is facing four felony counts of theft by deception, theft by unlawful taking, criminal use of a communication facility and unauthorized use of an access device.Earlier this month, Dowhower was sentenced to 193 months to 71 years in state prison and must register for life as a Megan's Law offender. Following three days of trial in June, a jury found Dowhower guilty of six felonies: two counts of aggravated indecent assault of a person and one count each of unlawful contact with a minor, sexual extortion, endangering the welfare of a child and corruption of minors. He was also found guilty of 18 misdemeanor counts of indecent assault.Prosecutors said Dowhower sexually assaulted the victim when she was 14 and 15 at the Country Inn & Suites by Radisson in Lewisburg. The victim met Dowhower when she was 12 and became friends with his children.— JUSTIN STRAWSER