Hookstown man taken into custody for causing damage on properties with a quad in Beaver County

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Hanover Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported via release today that twenty-nine-year-old Shane Gentry of Hookstown was taken into custody for committing an act of criminal mischief in Hanover Township of Beaver County. According to police, during the late hours of Saturday into the early hours of yesterday, Gentry took a quad which is owned by twenty-seven-year-old Kacey Messenger of Clinton, Pennsylvania and began driving it around the yard of 135 Gentry Drive. This caused damage that was significant to the front and rear yards and broke the “mushroom” vent for the sewage of the residence. The yard was owned by thirty-one-year-old Austin Gentry of Hookstown, who was a victim of this incident, along with sixty-three-year-old Douglas Gentry, also of Hookstown. then drove the quad onto a property that he was excluded from on 163 Gentry Drive and wrecked it by rolling it into the tree line, which caused damage that was significant to the quad. Gentry then tried to make a police report but was not sure of what he wanted to report to Beaver County 911 and Pennsylvania State Police Beaver, and then called back about five minutes later to report that he did not want or need the police, but made a request that a ‘higher power” would respond. Gentry was taken into custody for defiant trespass, disorderly conduct, a felony charge of criminal mischief, misuse of a 911 system and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.