Charges held against man for unfinished work

LACKAWANNOCK TOWNSHIP — A manager at Forrest Brooke Mobile Home Park in Lackawannock Township had charges of theft by deception held to court after allegedly being paid to do repairs he never completed.

Stephen Joel Sagenich Jr., 32, of 7266 W. Market St., Lot 34, had charges held by District Judge Lorinda L. Hinch, Mercer.

Sagenich claimed to have his own construction business and billed the mobile home park for $20,394 of work, police said.

Park owners, Continental Communities, told police that jobs Sagenich was paid for finishing had only been partly done or not done at all.

Those jobs included: placing skirting around a mobile home, disposing of debris on lots, painting, roofing, building a deck, laying flooring and carpet, hooking up plumbing and light fixtures, building steps, drywalling, replacing windows and repairing a cracked ceiling.

In one instance, work was finished by a present manager and maintenance workers.

Alleged burglar going to common pleas court

SHARON — A Sharpsville man charged with burglarizing a Sharon home last week is headed to court on the charge.

Ljubomir “Lou” Pantelic, 29, of 611 Pierce Ave., was charged with burglary and resisting arrest about 9 p.m. Thursday after he ran from a home in the 300 block of Spruce Avenue and was chased by police, police said.

District Judge James E. McMahon, Sharon, held the burglary charge to Mercer County Common Pleas Court at a preliminary hearing Tuesday and dismissed the charge of resisting arrest. The judge said there wasn’t evidence that chasing Pantelic created “substantial risk” for police, as is required by the law.

A man found Pantelic on the stairwell in his home and Pantelic ran from the home and jumped on a bicycle, police said. Police chased Pantelic and caught him in the 600 block of New Castle Avenue.

Police have said Pantelic is a suspect in a rash of burglaries in recent weeks, but there have been about half a dozen more since he was arrested.