The Herald, Sharon, Pa.

Local News

August 22, 2012

Man accused of assaulting cop

By Courtney L. Saylor Herald Staff Writer

SHARON — A Sharon man is accused of kicking and threatening a city policeman who arrested him for stealing a water heater from a vacant house Sunday.

Percy L. Godfrey Jr., 42, of 408 Malleable St., was wearing work boots when he kicked patrolman Marc Adamo in the chest near his face and attempted to kick him in the groin.

Adamo and two other Sharon police were called at 4:18 p.m. to 615 New Castle Ave. for a man who’d just taken a hot water heater from a vacant house and left in a “beat up” red pickup east on Plum Street.

Police found Godfrey and a truck that matched the description in the 500 block of Spruce Avenue.

Godfrey told police he’d taken the water heater from his own home because he doesn’t have electricity and was taking it to his cousin.

One of the men in the truck said he didn’t know Godfrey but was outside his home across the street as Godfrey was unloading the water heater and offered to help.

The driver of the truck told police Godfrey had stopped him at Spruce and East Budd and said he’d pay him $3 to transport the water heater, which they picked up on New Castle Avenue.

Police went to the house and found it empty and without a water heater. Witnesses said the house had been vacant for a while and that they saw a man drag a water heater from the house into the bed of the red truck.

When police returned to Spruce, Godfrey was outside yelling obscenities and police handcuffed him and put him into the back of a cruiser.

Police said Godfrey, tried to kick out the rear driver’s side window and door panel with both feet.

Cpl. Mark Johnson told Adamo to pepper spray Godfrey if he did that again and as Adamo opened the door Godfrey kicked him in the upper right chest near his face and in the area of his groin.

At the Southwest Mercer County Regional lockup in Farrell, Godfrey threatened Adamo, Adamo’s wife and children and his mother, saying he “didn’t care if it took years” he would get revenge, Johnson wrote in court documents.

“I’m gonna (expletive) kill you. Bet I never forget,” Johnson said Godfrey yelled at Adamo.

Police found a screw driver, a wrench and small pry bar in a bag Godfrey was carrying at the time police first saw him.

Godfrey had a crack pipe known as a straight shooter and a spoon with residue on it in his pants pocket at the time of his arrest, police said.

Godfrey is charged with aggravated assault, felony burglary, making terroristic threats, institutional vandalism, possessing an instrument of crime, receiving stolen property and three counts of possession of drug paraphernalia.

He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing next week before District Judge Dennis M. Songer, Sharon, and was taken to Mercer County Jail after failing to post bond.

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