A Levittown man who assaulted his mother and attempted to assault police officers in January was sentenced to three and a half to nine years in prison last week.
The sentence imposed by Bucks County President Judge Jeffrey L. Finley on David Zorger Jr., 51, breaks down to a 18-month to four-year sentence for the parole violation, followed by a consecutive two- to five-year sentence for the January assaults.
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During the January incident, Zorger pushed a table into his 72-year-old mom in Bristol Township before chasing her out of his house on Copper Beach Lane in Levittown with a kitchen knife. When officers arrived, he apparently screwed the front door shut with a power drill and proceeded to throw the drill through the window at officers. He was eventually detained after he was shot with two Taser blasts.
According to the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, Zorger was already on parole for a knife attack where he used a table and knife against his mother.
On June 13, Zorger plead guilty to a number of counts relating to aggravated assault on June 13. According to released information, the sentencing was delayed to allow for a psychiatric evaluation.
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Zorger said last week in court that he didn’t intend to harm anyone but himself and only drilled the door shut so that the officers couldn’t interfere with his plans to kill himself.
The 51 year old asked Finley to be sent to a treatment facility in Philadelphia for drug and mental health afflictions, but Finley declined the request. The judge cited Zorger’s proven danger to the community.
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Zorger told the Finley that he had completed anger-management classes and taken part in courses for drug and alcohol abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder at the county prison.
“I don’t dispute that you suffer from mental illness,” the judge told him. “But you are a danger to the community. You have shown that.”
