MARION COUNTY — Charges of intimidation against a 51-year-old Centralia woman that stemmed from alleged Facebook posts have been dropped.

With newly seated state’s attorney Bill Milner in office, the state elected to not pursue the charges filed in September against Shirlena Barnes.

Barnes was arrested and charged in September with Class 2 felony aggravated intimidation of a peace officer and Class 3 felony intimidation to cause physical harm. A Class 2 felony is punishable by between 3 and 15 years in prison if convicted and a Class 3 intimidation by between 2 and 10 years in prison.

The charges were filed under former Marion County State’s Attorney Matt Wilzbach, who said at the time that the charges stemmed from a post on Barnes’ Facebook page where she named someone by first name, then in a subsequent comment stated that person didn’t “believe that what goes around come around and when you got kids of your own.”

Wilzbach, who didn’t run for reelection, said the statement “what goes around comes around” is a threat and then references the officer’s children.

Barnes has been free on $500 cash bond since shortly after her arrest. Her bond, less 10 percent clerk’s fees, was ordered refunded today to the person who posted her bond over the summer.