May 29, 2015 2 min read

WAYNESBURG – A Greene County jury delivered a split verdict against a Morgan Township woman accused of entering a Mather residence last June and threatening a woman.

Lisa Basinger, 49, was found guilty May 20 of harassment and disorderly conduct in the June 12, 2014, incident at 505 Fifth St. in which state police said she entered through a back door and confronted a woman involved with her estranged husband.

The jury returned not guilty verdicts for the felony charges of burglary and criminal trespassing, along with a subsequent harassment count, following the trial before Greene County President Judge Farley Toothman. Basinger is awaiting sentencing for the conviction of misdemeanor harassment and summary disorderly conduct.

Police said Basinger walked into Krista Lynn Bedilion’s home in Mather and began calling her names, shouted obscenities and threatened her. Bedilion told state police she was in a relationship with Basinger’s estranged husband, Samuel Basinger. Bedilion said Lisa Basinger was not permitted on her property. The two women argued during the confrontation before Bedilion threw Basinger out of the house, police said.

Two months later, Basinger was charged with witness intimidation and harassment after state police said she sent a series of text messages to her estranged husband’s cellphone in the early hours of Aug. 1.

Basinger pleaded guilty to that harassment charge following the jury trial, and prosecutors withdrew the witness intimidation charge. Toothman sentenced her to 12 months probation for the harassment charge.

Basinger remains free on $10,000 bond while she awaits sentencing in June.