WITH WHAT HAPPENED HERE, SARAH. LORI DONALD ROOP IS ACCUSED OF BREAKING INTO A HOUSE RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO WHERE HE WAS LIVING. NOW. THE HOMEOWNER TOLD TROOPERS HE WOKE UP TO ROOP SHAKING HIS BED, WEARING ONLY HIS BOXERS. WE SAW A TROOPER BACK IN THE AREA TODAY, BUT THE BREAK-IN HAPPENED ON BLACK HORSE ROAD IN PARADISE TOWNSHIP LAST SUNDAY. TROOPERS SAY DONALD ROOP ENTERED A HOUSE NEXT DOOR TO THIS YELLOW HOUSE, WHERE HE SAID HE WAS LIVING. DOCUMENTS SAY AFTER THE HOMEOWNER WOKE UP TO ROOP SHAKING HIS BED IN HIS BOXERS, HE GRABBED HIS GUN AND ESCORTED HIM OUTSIDE. THE HOMEOWNER TOLD TROOPERS HE BELIEVED IT COULD HAVE BEEN A LOCAL MAN NAMED DONNIE. TROOPERS LATER FOUND HIM STANDING BY TREES WITH A STRONG SMELL OF ALCOHOL COMING OFF OF HIM. AFTER TAKING ROOP INTO CUSTODY, STATE POLICE SAY HE PUNCHED A FINGERPRINTING MACHINE MULTIPLE TIMES AT HEADQUARTERS AND THREATENED A TROOPER, SAYING HE, QUOTE, WAS GOING TO PUT A BULLET THROUGH THEIR HEAD. THE 47 YEAR OLD WAS CHARGED WITH BURGLARY, TERRORISTIC THREATS, DISORDERLY CONDUCT, PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS AND INSTITUTIONAL VANDALISM. AND THIS ISN’T THE FIRST TIME. ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS, ROOP WAS FOUND GUILTY OF MULTIPLE COUNTS OF HARASSMENT, THEFT, BURGLARY AND CRIMINAL MISCHIEF, WITH MULTIPLE CASES THAT DATE BACK TO 1996. RIGHT NOW, STATE POLICE SAY ROOP IS BEING HELD HERE ON A $100,000 CASH BAIL. IT SAYS HIS PRELIMINARY HEARING IS SCHEDULED FOR THIS WEDNESDAY
Intruder wearing only underwear wakes homeowner by shaking bed during Lancaster County burglary, troopers say
Updated: 7:10 PM EST Dec 1, 2025
A man was arrested for breaking into a Lancaster County home, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8 Today.Troopers said they responded to the 100 block of Black Horse Road in Paradise Township around 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 23, after the victim encountered an intruder in his bedroom. The victim told police he was woken up by something shaking his bed and saw a man standing in his bedroom in his boxers, according to the affidavit. He told the man to get out of his house, but he did not comply, the documents said. The victim then grabbed his gun and aimed it at the intruder, identified as Donald Roop, 47, of Paradise Township, according to police. After checking on his baby daughter in the adjoining room, the victim escorted Roop out the front door at gunpoint, investigators said. The victim said he believed the suspect was a local man known as “Donny,” according to the documents. “He was scared and frightened for his safety, life, and that of his daughter,” state police said. “He related that the man was not privileged or welcome in his residence.”While troopers were on the scene investigating, someone appeared behind a tree line, the documents stated. Investigators said the victim identified the man as the person who entered his house. Troopers said as they approached Roop, he reeked of alcohol. Threatened to kill trooper, police sayWhile at the police station, Roop threatened to assault and kill a trooper by “putting a bullet in his head” and punched the Livescan machine twice, the court documents said.Roop also admitted he uses methamphetamine for fun, according to police. Roop was charged with burglary, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and similar misconduct, and institutional vandalism. Previous criminal historyDonald Roop has a criminal history of many previous charges, including burglary, harassment, theft, robbery and assault, some of which date back to 1996.
PARADISE TOWNSHIP, Pa. —
A man was arrested for breaking into a Lancaster County home, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8 Today.
Troopers said they responded to the 100 block of Black Horse Road in Paradise Township around 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 23, after the victim encountered an intruder in his bedroom.
The victim told police he was woken up by something shaking his bed and saw a man standing in his bedroom in his boxers, according to the affidavit.
He told the man to get out of his house, but he did not comply, the documents said.
The victim then grabbed his gun and aimed it at the intruder, identified as Donald Roop, 47, of Paradise Township, according to police.
After checking on his baby daughter in the adjoining room, the victim escorted Roop out the front door at gunpoint, investigators said. The victim said he believed the suspect was a local man known as “Donny,” according to the documents.
“He was scared and frightened for his safety, life, and that of his daughter,” state police said. “He related that the man was not privileged or welcome in his residence.”
While troopers were on the scene investigating, someone appeared behind a tree line, the documents stated. Investigators said the victim identified the man as the person who entered his house.
Troopers said as they approached Roop, he reeked of alcohol.
Threatened to kill trooper, police say
While at the police station, Roop threatened to assault and kill a trooper by “putting a bullet in his head” and punched the Livescan machine twice, the court documents said.
Roop also admitted he uses methamphetamine for fun, according to police.
Roop was charged with burglary, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and similar misconduct, and institutional vandalism.
Previous criminal history
Donald Roop has a criminal history of many previous charges, including burglary, harassment, theft, robbery and assault, some of which date back to 1996.