CLARION CO., Pa. (EYT) — On Wednesday, a Tionesta man who broke into a house and threatened to harm a male victim was sentenced to probation.
On Wednesday, August 25, President Judge Sara J. Seidle-Patton sentenced 38-year-old Mark Daniel Deloe to two years of probation on one first-degree misdemeanor count of terroristic threats and one year of probation on one third-degree misdemeanor count of criminal mischief, with the sentences to run concurrently for a total of two years of probation.
Deloe pleaded guilty to the above charges on July 7.
As a result of the plea agreement, the following charges were dismissed:
– Burglary — Overnight Accommodations; Person Present, Bodily Injury Crime, Felony 1
– Criminal Trespass-Break Into Structure, Felony 2
– Harassment — Comm. Lewd, Threatening, Etc. Language, Misdemeanor 3
The charges stem from an incident that occurred in Washington Township in early November.
Details of the case:
According to a criminal complaint, around 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 12, 2020, a known female contacted Marienville-based State Police to report Mark Deloe had just left her Washington Township residence following a verbal altercation with her brother.
The female reported that Deloe arrived at the residence, exited his vehicle, and began yelling for a known male victim to come out. The male victim then got into a verbal altercation with Deloe, but when the female said she was calling the police, Deloe then got back into his vehicle and left the residence.
Police then spoke to the male victim about the incident. He reported that earlier the same day, Deloe entered his residence on Pine Hollow Road in Tionesta, Washington Township, Clarion County, by force, breaking the hinges of the front door in the process of forcing it open. The victim said Deloe planned to harm him regarding another incident but left when he couldn’t find him, though he and his mother were both at home at the time.
He reported that he and his mother then left his residence and traveled to his sister’s Washington Township residence. The male victim stayed at the Washington Township residence and his mother traveled to a residence on Lickingville Road, in Washington Township, Clarion County. Deloe traveled to the Lickingville Road residence and demanded to see the male victim, but left after learning that the victim was not there, according to the complaint.
Deloe then reportedly traveled to the female victim’s Washington Township residence, where he engaged in a verbal altercation with the male victim and threatened to harm him. Deloe then left when the female victim began calling the police.
Around 10:18 a.m. on November 12, state police went to the Pine Hollow Road residence where the initial incident occurred and observed damage to the doorway where Deloe broke the hinges, forcing his way inside.
Deloe was arraigned in front of Magisterial District Judge Timothy P. Schill at 1:30 a.m. on November 14, 2020.
Court documents indicate Deloe is also facing a preliminary hearing scheduled for 1:15 p.m. on September 7 on charges related to an incident where he allegedly choked and struck a woman and threatened to kill her during a dispute at a Washington Township residence.
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