School trespasser to serve parole
WAYNESBURG – A Nemacolin man found guilty of entering a Carmichaels area school at night with a penknife and bottle of vodka was sentenced Monday.
Joseph P. McKenzie, 31, of 143 Sara Lane was found guilty by a Greene County jury of possession of a weapon on school property at trial Sept. 16. The court subsequently found him guilty of two summary offenses, public drunkenness and defiant trespass.
McKenzie, who spent eight days in jail after his arrest in April, was sentenced to time served and ordered to serve 18 months on parole after the sentencing hearing before visiting Senior Judge Hiram Carpenter III.
He was fined $300, ordered to participate in any recommended counseling and prohibited from entering Carmichaels Area Middle-Senior High School.
McKenzie was arrested April 7 after a janitor saw him walking in the hallways of the school about 8:30 p.m. and asked him to leave through a nearby exit, Cumberland Township police said.
A short time later, the janitor and another school employee saw McKenzie enter a door near the auditorium. McKenzie was arrested while climbing down a ladder in the auditorium that led to the roof. He had with him a bottle of vodka and a penknife with a three-inch folding blade.
In another case, Christopher Warren Davis, 30, of 220 Kurans Road, Carmichaels, pleaded guilty Thursday to possession of drug paraphernalia.
Davis was sentenced to one year of probation and fined $250.
Davis was arrested April 13 after he overdosed on heroin in the bathroom of his home. A syringe and spoon were found nearby.
Another occupant of the house found Davis lying on the bathroom floor after a 2-year-old child came into the living room holding a syringe, police said.