Dartt is being held in Bucks County prison on charges of indecent assault and corruption of minors in the latest case, involving two girls he met at a Chalfont bowling alley. He has failed to post 10 percent of $50,000 bail.
Snow said Dartt would not necessarily receive a harsher penalty in the second case if convicted in the first. She said Dartt faced up to five years in prison in each case. Procedural rules prohibit trying both cases at the same time.
Dartt was fired from his part-time police job after his first arrest on charges that he furnished alcohol to two 17-year-old girls.
Dartt is accused of approaching two 16-year-old girls at the Pit-Catcher Lanes on April 28 and asking them to expose themselves. One of the girls did, and Dartt kissed the other without her consent, police said.
The next day, Dartt went to the Doylestown Township store where the girl he kissed worked and put his hand under her shirt in front of two witnesses, police said.
Zeitz said Dartt denied the charges and had been wrongly accused in the new case. The attorney said he hoped police would drop the latest charges after he completed his own investigation and gave the results to Snow.
"We feel there are four people out there with information favorable to our client," Zeitz said.
Dartt's preliminary hearing on the new charges is scheduled for next Tuesday before District Justice Robert E. Gaffney in New Britain.
Dartt, who was not on duty at the time, admitted in the first case that he gave the Northampton Township teens liquor and beer, according to a police probable-cause affidavit.
Lacy McCrary's e-mail address is lmccrary@phillynews.com
