Preliminary Hearings

• BELLEFONTE--Hakim Abdullah Vinson, a 24-year-old resident of Media, was ordered yesterday to stand trial for one charge of aggravated assault and one charge of simple assault by District Justice Daniel Hoffman, according to court documents.
  

  Officers at Centre County Prison said Vinson kicked an officer behind the knee after one officer came to his cell, then spit in the face of another officer, according to the documents.
  

  When the officers returned to the cell, Vinson started fighting again and hit one officer several times in the face, according to court documents. After getting reinforcements, the defendant again acted aggressively toward officers, according to the documents.
  

  Vinson was also ordered by District Justice Ronald J. Horner to stand trial for charges of burglary, criminal trespassing and a misdemeanor charge of theft by unlawful taking, according to court documents.
  

• James Edward Allen III, a 28-year-old University student, was ordered by District Justice Carmine W. Prestia to stand trial for charges of simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and disorderly conduct, according to court documents.
  

• Tosh B. Traylor, a 21-year-old State College resident, was also ordered by Prestia to stand trial for charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and disorderly conduct, according to court documents.
  

  Patrols responded to a fight in an apartment on the 700 block of East Beaver Avenue and upon arrival found the actors had left the scene. The defendant had gotten in a fight with his roommate the night before and had come back to the apartment with two friends, according to the documents.
  

  Traylor and his friends began beating the victim, who opened his eyes and saw a black man standing over him with a bar stool raised above his head, according to documents.
  

  The victim said the beating continued and when another person entered the room, the defendants turned on him, threw him against a wall and began punching and striking him with the bar stool, according to court documents.
  

  --by Jennifer Nejman