SHAMOKIN - A home owned by Northumberland County Sheriff Robert Wolfe was allegedly robbed Sept. 16 by a city man arrested two days later on an outstanding warrant while bicycling under the influence of heroin.
City police said they were dispatched to Rock Street around 6 p.m. Sept. 18, when Dylan Kane, 20, of 410 N. Shamokin St., Apt. C, Shamokin, was reported to possibly be overdosing on heroin while riding his bicycle.
Police said Kane was subsequently found on Terrace Avenue, where he was speaking to family members and appeared to be under the influence of a controlled substance. He was in possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, including a pipe, one Clonazepam, heroin wrappers, syringes, spice and marijuana, police said. He also had in his possession jewelry. He admitted to use the syringes to ingest heroin.
Kane was then remanded to Northumberland County Prison on an outstanding warrant.
The following day, police were dispatched around 11:30 a.m. to 139 S. Sixth St. to a residence owned by Wolfe and occupied by his daughter, Colette Wolfe. Colette was in the process of moving in and said she noticed several items out of place and missing. She said the rear basement door had been opened.
Colette telephoned her stepbrother, John Herb, who said he received a Facebook message from Stacy Rudy asking to meet him to return items she had received from her boyfriend, Dylan Kane.
Rudy told police Kane had given her the items Wednesday night and asked her to return them to Herb. The police took the items to the station where the sheriff identified them as his.
Kane later told police he broke into the home Sept. 16. He said he was an acquaintence of Herb, who used to live at the Sixth Street home, and knew how to access the property. According to the criminal complaint, Kane was "high at the time, extremely exhausted and immediately fell asleep in a rocking chair located in the kitchen." Upon waking the next morning, he rummaged through the house and took several items. He tried to exchange them for money at a local pawn shop with no success, but managed to change several rolls of quarters using a machine at Weis Markets for approximately $54, the complaint said. He then gave the items to Rudy.
On Monday, Kane was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III on charges of possessing a controlled substance, possessing drug paraphernalia, possessing small amount of marijuana, burglary, criminal trespass, theft by unlawful taking of movable property and receiving stolen property. He was committed to Northumberland County Prison in lieu of $10,000 bail.
