A man who is accused of threatening to light the homemade moonshine he had thrown on a young mother and her infant will be released from the Butler County Prison, where he has been housed since the May 24 incident.

Judge B.T. Fullerton at a preliminary hearing on Monday ordered the defendant, Aaron T. Moyers released from jail on non-monetary bond because Laura Pitchford, county assistant district attorney, failed to prove that the liquid on the woman and infant was flammable.

Moyers, 42, of West Virginia, will be under pretrial supervision with an electronic monitor and is to have no contact with the victim or any witnesses to the incident, Fullerton said.

This is an excerpt from a larger article that appears in Tuesday’s Butler Eagle. Subscribe online or in print to read the full article. FB: A man accused of threatening to light the homemade moonshine he had thrown on a young mother and her infant will be released from the Butler County Prison because the county assistant district attorney failed to prove that the liquid used was flammable.