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July 2, 2008

Police: 3 charged in connection with drug deal that went wrong

By Courtney Anderson

NEW WILMINGTON — Three people face charges in a prescription drug deal gone wrong June 4 in New Wilmington, borough police said.

Police said Rebecca Jane Grieneisen, 22, of 146 E. Market St., Mercer, formerly of New Wilmington, was charged with making false reports to law enforcement, unsworn falsification to authorities and criminal attempt and conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance.

Nicholas Gabriel Kulik, 18, and David Patrick Antonelli, 21, both of New Castle, were charged with criminal attempt and conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance, police said.

Police said Ms. Grieneisen told them that she’d invited two young men she’d just met into her New Wilmington apartment to talk about subletting it from her.

She said one of the men tried to distract her while the other took about $250 cash from her purse. The men fled and a female friend of Ms. Grieneisen chased them, Ms. Grieneisen told police.

Kulik and Antonelli were identified as the men involved and both admitted to being at her apartment, police said.

But the men said Ms. Grieneisen solicited them to buy prescription pain killers for her because she couldn’t leave her apartment because she was on house arrest, police said.

The men said Ms. Grieneisen gave them about $200 to buy Percocet and $25 for gasoline to drive to New Castle to get the pills, police said.

Antonelli and Kulik told police they bought gas in New Wilmington and drove to an apartment complex in New Castle, where they gave an unidentified man Ms. Grieneisen’s money and he promised to return with the drugs. The man went inside the building and never came back, they told police.

Kulik and Antonelli said they returned to Ms. Grieneisen’s apartment and told her they had bought the pills but left them in their car, police said. Kulik told police that he and Ms. Grieneisen then showered together and when they were finished, the two men left and promised to come back with the pills.

Antonelli and Kulik left New Wilmington and didn’t return to her apartment.

The three are scheduled for preliminary hearings Wednesday before District Judge Scott McGrath, New Castle.

According to online state court filings, Ms. Grieneisen was charged with drunken driving in July 2007 in Clark and was placed in Mercer County’s accelerated rehabilitative disposition program after being arraigned in January. It’s unclear if she was still on house arrest when this alleged incident occurred.

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