Four charged in tresspassing incident
Three people who were charged Monday with trespassing at Char House in Charleroi face new charges they spent a night last week in a vacant Monessen house uninvited.
City police Tuesday filed trespassing charges against Gary Jankowski, 23, of 808 Riverview Drive, White Oak; Larry Walker Jr., 27, of 522 Third St., Charleroi; and Larry Bolling, 23, who uses addresses in Belle Vernon, McKeesport and North Charleroi, court records show.
Monessen police also charged Ashley Chalfant, 25, of 522 Third St., Charleroi, with trespassing with the others Aug. 8 and 9 at 649 S. 14th St., Monessen, the records indicate.
The owner of the vacant house, John Michael “Josh” Retos, called police about 8:40 a.m. Aug. 9 after going to the house to check on it and hearing someone snoring in a bedroom, police stated in the affidavit.
District Judge Larry Hopkins issued arrest warrants Monday on charges filed by Charleroi Regional police for Bolling and Walker in the Aug. 8 case at Char House, where a woman allegedly used the door buzzer to get inside the apartment building with the two suspects and another man to raid the refrigerator in a common area. Jankowski is being held in Westmoreland County jail on $75,000 bond set Monday by Hopkins.
District Judge Joseph Dalfonso issued the new charges Tuesday against Walker, Bolling, Jankowski and Chalfant.
Chalfant also is charged by Monessen police with possessing drug paraphernalia after 30 empty heroin stamp bags allegedly were found Aug. 9 in her purse.