A Buffalo, N.Y., man is in McKean County Jail after he allegedly forced his way into an apartment and tried to get the occupant to help him “get rid of” some drugs.
Walter L. Dennis Jr., 44, of 37 Alma Ave., Buffalo, was arraigned Monday before District Judge David Engman on charges of burglary, a first-degree felony; selling a noncontrolled substance represented as a controlled substance, a felony; criminal trespassing, a third-degree felony; terroristic threats, a first-degree misdemeanor; simple assault, a second-degree misdemeanor; possession with the intent to deliver a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance, misdemeanors; and summary harassment.
According to the criminal complaint, at 3:29 p.m. Monday, Bradford City Police were dispatched to 20 Main St., Apt. 3, for a report of a male who was standing in the hallway hitting the apartment door with a stick. Police found the man — Dennis — trying to leave out the back door of the apartment building holding a stick in his hands.
Dennis dropped the stick and spoke to one officer; meanwhile, another officer talked to the caller. She told the officer that she called police the night before because Dennis was throwing rocks at her window and banging on her door, and she asked him to leave multiple times, court records stated. She told the officer that she knew the man as “Ghost.”
On Monday, she was sitting with her children when Dennis began banging on the door. She opened the door because she thought it was a maintenance person who was supposed to come fix the window, but it was Dennis; He “whipped the door open out of her hands” and entered the apartment, the complaint stated.
According to the complaint, Dennis grabbed the female’s phone and told her that she had to help him “get rid of these drugs.” She told him that she did not want him there and he needed to leave.
Dennis, who was carrying a solid piece of wood about 20 inches long in his hand, hit his other hand with the stick and told her the stick was called his “beating b- — — — stick today,” the complaint stated.
Officers took Dennis into custody and discovered a scale in his pants pocket and a plastic baggie containing about 5.77 grams of suboxone, according to court records.
The complaint stated that while Dennis was in a holding cell at the police station, officers saw him “reaching inside of his pants and moving his hand towards his buttocks.” Officers went back to confront him and found a ripped plastic baggie on the ground near Dennis’s feet. He told the officers that he had pulled the baggie — which contained about 9.44 grams of a white substance — out of his rectum. He told officers that the substance was fake cocaine.
Dennis is incarcerated in lieu of $30,000 bail, and a preliminary hearing is set for July 1.