Three Arrested After Cops Respond To Boarded-Up House

April 11, 2025

File photo. Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com

Three men were arrested after police responded to a report of trespassing at a boarded-up residence in Bristol Township.

Township police were called to the 5700 block of Beaver Dam Road on the morning of Friday, March 28, for a report of a pickup truck parked in the driveway of the vacant home, according to court papers.

Arriving officers found an unoccupied Nissan Frontier with a trailer attached outside the home, which had been boarded up recently by township officials, police said.

While investigating, officers discovered a basement window had been uncovered, police said.

An officer who shined a flashlight into the basement and saw a man before he fled further into the house.

Officers established a perimeter and deployed a K-9 unit.

After giving verbal commands, Vincent John Sabonis III, 50, of Bristol Borough, exited a window and was taken into custody, police said.

The 50-year-old man later admitted to entering the home through the basement window, police said.

After forcing entry through a rear door, officers found Henry McDonald, 43, of Croydon, hiding under a living room couch, police said.

McDonald was found in possession of a checkbook belonging to a woman and a plastic vial containing suspected methamphetamine, police said.

At the police station, McDonald told officers he had entered the home with Sabonis and encountered Lee Scott Dionne, 35, of Levittown, who was already inside, according to investigators.

Later, an officer spotted Dionne in the woods behind the residence, but bt the time, the officer was unaware of Dionne’s involvement in the incident, police said.

Sabonis and McDonald were both charged with burglary and criminal trespassing. McDonald also faces two drug-related offenses. Dionne was charged with criminal trespassing.

Sabonis and Dionne were released after posting bail. McDonald was being held on 10 percent of $200,000 bail.

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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