From staff reports
A Titusville man faces multiple charges after being accused of stealing merchandise from several stores and raising a rucus when police had him in custody.
Dimire Chall, 22, entered Rite Aid, CVS Pharmacy and the North Side Country Fair on Saturday and stole over $560 worth of merchandise at about 4:30 p.m., Oil City police said.
He was arrested at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday by Titusville police on warrants from the thefts, Oil City police said in a criminal complaint filed through District Judge Andrew Fish’s office.
When Chall was taken into the station, he told the officer that he was not going to jail, would return the items he took from the stores and that he would hang himself if he were taken to jail, the complaint said.
In the cell at the police station, Chall yelled, and banged on the door and walls, the complaint said.
He also tried twice to take the protective covering off the camera in the cell, the complaint said.
At about 6:30 a.m., Chall intentionally flooded his cell by clogging the toilet, the complaint said.
He then threatened an officer, telling him he would catch him off work without his badge and knock him out, and flung water from the floor onto two officers before the mop was taken away from him, the complaint said.
Chall has been charged with three felony counts of retail theft; misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats with intent to terrorize another; institutional vandalism; harrassment – communicating lewd, threatening, etc., language; and a summary count of criminal mischief – tamper with property.
He was arraigned on Sunday before Fish.
Chall’s preliminary hearing is scheduled at 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 8 before Fish.
