3 people accused of entering abandoned house in Parks Township ordered to stand trial
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Three people accused of entering an abandoned building in Parks Township earlier this week have been ordered to stand trial by a district judge.
State police filed a felony criminal trespassing charge against Bethany Elexis Imm, 28, of the 200 block of Sandalwood Drive in Allegheny Township; Nathan Dean Beer, 24, of the 100 block of Shearer Road in Gilpin; and Emily Janelle Culp, 29, of the 400 block of Seventh Street in Ford City.
A trooper from the Kittanning station wrote in the arrest papers that he was dispatched around 7 p.m. Sunday to a home in the 1000 block of First Street for a trespassing call.
A witness told the trooper he saw a man and a woman enter the home through an open doorway, according to a criminal complaint.
The trooper said he found Imm, Beer and Culp inside the house and took them into custody.
Culp also was charged with a count of drug possession after a stamp bag of suspected heroin marked with a red CVS logo was found while she was being searched after her arrest, the complaint said.
Imm, Beer and Culp were being held in the Armstrong County Jail in lieu of a $5,000 cash bond for each, according to court records.
All three waived their right to preliminary hearings Feb. 8 before District Judge James Andring, who ordered them to stand trial in Armstrong County Common Pleas Court.
Court records show Vandergrift police charged Culp on Feb. 3 with felony counts of retail theft and conspiracy. A date for a preliminary hearing on those charge before District Judge Cheryl Peck Yakopec has not yet been scheduled, according to the court docket.