A Scranton man on parole for a prohibited weapons charge and three other city residents entered a condemned building Friday, police charge.<\/p>\n
Officers received a report of people inside a condemned residence at 309 Warren St. around 6:45 p.m., according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Patrolwoman Olivia Muchal saw a man \u2014 identified as Anthony Brazen \u2014 standing near a black Chevrolet. Another man \u2014 identified as Frank Ford \u2014 ran from officers and went into the house, police said.<\/p>\n
Ford ran past a man and woman \u2014 identified as Lukasz Drozdzewski and Jaime Schembri \u2014 who were coming out of the residence, officers said.<\/p>\n
An officer ordered Ford to exit the residence with his hands visible, and he was detained by police, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
When officers questioned them about entering the building, Brazen said it was his sister\u2019s house, and that he was allowed to retrieve items from inside, police said.<\/p>\n
The house had multiple condemned signs on the door, and it was past daylight, officers said.<\/p>\n
Officers contacted Brazen\u2019s sister, Serena McDermott, who told them the house had belonged to her, but that it was condemned in February, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
McDermott also said she told Brazen several times not to enter the residence at night, police said.<\/p>\n
Drozdzewski told police he picked up Brazen to come to the house. Ford and Schembri were with Brazen, and all four entered the residence, officers said.<\/p>\n
Officers noticed items in the back of Drozdzewski\u2019s vehicle, and found a bag containing drugs and drug paraphernalia after receiving consent to search it, police said.<\/p>\n
A police dog sent into the residence detected an odor of narcotics in a storage room, leading officers to find a pipe containing drug residue, according to the criminal complaint. Officers also found a revolver behind a cabinet in the home with six live rounds in the cylinder, police said.<\/p>\n
Among the items officers recovered from the scene were two glass smoking pipes containing drug residue, a zip-close bag containing a white powdery substance, a small glass container with a white rock material inside, a green glass pipe with white residue inside, and a silver. 38 special revolver with a wooden handle and bullets, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Police charged Ford, 51, with criminal trespass, flight to avoid apprehension, loitering and prowling at night, evading arrest, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n
Schembri, 47; Drozdzewski, 40; and Brazen, 36, all face charges of criminal trespass, loitering and prowling at night, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing for Ford and Drozdzewski is scheduled for Monday at 10:30 a.m. while Schembri and Brazen are set to appear in court Monday at 10:45 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man on parole for a prohibited weapons charge and three other city residents entered a condemned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[8584,8467,8583,8585,8586,8587,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-10695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-anthony-brazen","tag-criminal-complaint","tag-frank-ford","tag-jaime-schembri","tag-lukasz-drozdzewski","tag-police-charge","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}