A 60-year-old Scranton man \u2014 previously evicted from a property \u2014 made threats to burn the house down if he wasn\u2019t able to collect his belongings, police said.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to 352 E. Elm St. on Thursday around 4:54 p.m. after a woman told county dispatchers that Michael Pisarski was threatening to break into the garage and burn the house down, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Tina Griffin, who owns the home, told police Pisarski was evicted more than a month ago but left items in the garage.<\/p>\n
Griffin had changed the locks to the garage a few days earlier when Pisarski returned Thursday and offered her money as back pay on his rent, police said.<\/p>\n
When she refused, Pisarski became upset and started screaming that he was going to break the lock off the door, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
He then said he was going to burn the house down if he didn\u2019t get his items back, police said.<\/p>\n
Griffin showed officers a garage on Hartman Place where Pisarski sometimes hangs out, and he was standing in the doorway, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Pisarski claimed he was paying rent and was never evicted, police said. Officers said he also denied threatening to set the house on fire.<\/p>\n
Police charged Pisarski, 629 S. Webster Ave., with terroristic threats with the intent to terrorize another.<\/p>\n
As of Monday, Pisarski remained in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 28 at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 60-year-old Scranton man \u2014 previously evicted from a property \u2014 made threats to burn the house down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-248659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248659","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=248659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}