Police: Charleroi man threatened roommates with machete
CHARLEROI – A Charleroi man is in custody on charges he threatened to kill his roommates, including an infant, with a machete Sunday night while demanding they leave his house.
District Judge Jesse Pettit set bond in the case at $150,000 against Prince Peters, 32, placing him in Washington County jail.
Charleroi Regional police said officers were sent about 8:30 p.m. to Peters’ residence at 414 Washington Ave. to investigate a report about the machete as well as a sexual assault on a minor in the home, court records show.
As officers were leaving the station, Peters showed up and was taken inside for questioning.
The woman who called Washington County 911, Fabrea Crews, eventually told police Peters knocked out a piece of wood covering broken glass in a door to unlock it and enter the upstairs apartment.
She said he told everyone to leave as he “pulled out a machete and began waving it around above the child that was in a child seat in the living room, yelling he would kill them,” police noted in the affidavit.
Peters denied assaulting the child, adding that he allowed Crews and the infant to stay with him because the downstairs apartment was unfit for occupancy.
He is not facing any sexual assault charges.
He is charged with three counts each of aggravated assault, simple assault, making terroristic threats, reckless endangerment and harassment.