Six people are facing charges after allegedly entering an empty home in Falls Township’s Morrisville section.
On Wednesday around 10 a.m., a property manager called authorities to report that neighbors in the 1400 block of Old Bristol Pike had called reporting multiple young adults had broken into a home and were inside. The previous owner had been evicted and no one was allowed to be in the property, according to paperwork filed in district court by police.
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Multiple Falls Township officers arrived shortly after and surrounded the home. They knocked and no one answered, police said.
There were observable eviction notices posted on the residence.
As one officer went to get a sledgehammer from his patrol vehicle to bust into the home, a patrolman reported that someone leapt from a window and began running, police said.
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The man who ran – Justin Evans, 29, who has no address listed in court papers – was captured, and officers then spotted several people inside a bedroom. Evans was placed in the rear of a patrol car, police said.
Four people – Anthony T. Corbin, 35, of Bristol Township; Erin McMillan, 36, of Falls Township; Ryan Pekarski, 32, of Bristol Township; and Daniel Stephen Morgan, 40, of Bristol Township – were found in the bedroom of the empty home and detained. One person asked for someone to retrieve their dentures, which led to vials of suspected crack cocaine and heroin being located, police said.
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Another man – Michael Bryan, 35, of Levittown – was located in the basement of a home and arrested, police said.
As officers were placing the suspects in separate vehicles, Evans escaped his restraints and escaped from the rear of a patrol car, police said.
Four officers, including the acting police chief, chased Evans on foot and caught up to him on Lindley Drive in the nearby Pennwood Crossing mobile home community, police said.
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At the police station, Evans was found to have a vial with suspected white crystalline residue found near his anus and a syringe in the crotch of his underwear, according to authorities.
The owner of the property told police the previous residents were evicted by constables on Monday. The property manager said to an investigator that none of the people on the scene had permission to enter the home.
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Evans gave police someone else’s name, police said.
“Yeah, I was tryin’ to beat you,” he allegedly told an officer when the false identity was discovered.
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Bryan, Corbin, Morgan, and Pekarski were all charged with criminal trespassing. They were arraigned by on-call District Judge Lisa Gaier and remanded to the Bucks County Correctional Facility on 10 percent of $25,000 bail.
McMillan was charged with criminal trespassing, possession of a controlled substance, and use/possession of drug paraphernalia. She was held on 10 percent of $25,000 bail.
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Evans was arraigned on charges of criminal trespassing, escape, possession of a controlled substance, use/possession of drug paraphernalia, and identity theft. He was sent to the county lockup on 10 percent of $25,000.
Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.
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