😲Charges against robber and property owner in attempted burglary shooting

**GOYABEAN** · April 13th, 2024, 06:07 AM

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PORT CARBON, Pa. — A burglar and a property owner are both facing faces after an attempted robbery in February of 2023.

State police investigated the shooting in Schuylkill County at an unoccupied house on 2nd Street in Port Carbon overnight back on February 7, 2023. Neighbors heard multiple shots, and then bullets were found near the home.

Dennis Powanda. 40, faces charges of criminal trespass and burglary, among other criminal charges, for attempting to burglarize the home. The property owner, Vincent Yakaitis, 74, also faces charges for shooting Powanda with a firearm carried without a license.

Both Powanda and Yakaitis have preliminary hearings set for April 30.

https://www.wnep.com/article/news/lo...f-e39d2ac95a10

**Emptymag** · April 13th, 2024, 11:55 AM

Question: When commenting, is it OK to make up facts that are unknown in order to bolster our viewpoint?

**Carson** · April 13th, 2024, 01:11 PM

Too bad Powanda wasn*t on a bicycle.

**RockIsland** · April 13th, 2024, 01:27 PM

Curious why the property owner was charged. Maybe he was on a bike.

**Emptymag** · April 13th, 2024, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by RockIsland

Curious why the property owner was charged. Maybe he was on a bike.

There's only a few sentences to read and your answer lies within.

But maybe a summary should have been posted?

**RockIsland** · April 13th, 2024, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by Emptymag

There's only a few sentences to read and your answer lies within.

But maybe a summary should have been posted?

It's says what he was charged with but not the circumstances.

He could have been legally open carrying.

**tl_3237** · April 14th, 2024, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by RockIsland

It's says what he was charged with but not the circumstances.

He could have been legally open carrying.

Charge was

18 PA CSA§ 6106. Firearms not to be carried without a license.

(a) Offense defined.--

(2) A person who is otherwise eligible to possess a valid license under this chapter but carries a firearm in any vehicle or any person who carries a firearm concealed on or about his person, except in his place of abode or fixed place of business, without a valid and lawfully issued license and has not committed any other criminal violation commits a misdemeanor of the first degree.

https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/Report...iTvkvqGw%3D%3D