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Pottsville man who allegedly attempted to break into a medical
helicopter while it was parked at a helipad in Pottsville early Saturday
is in prison and facing federal charges, city police said Monday.
"The
aircraft was inspected. It's fine. It's not damaged at all. From what I
understand, all he did was raid the refrigerator," Matthew Burns, a
media representative with Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, said
Monday.
Christopher Wayne Camodeca, 23, is being charged with
stealing food from the office of Lehigh Valley MedEvac 7 at 512 N. 14th
St., along with food, a wallet and a set of car keys from a home at 1398
Laurel Blvd. owned by William Phillips, police said.
Camodeca
was arraigned by on-call Magisterial District Judge Anthony J. Kilker,
Shenandoah, and charged with two counts each of felony burglary,
criminal trespass, theft and receiving stolen property, and one count
each of loitering and prowling at night and public drunkenness, police
said.
Camodeca was placed in the Schuylkill County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bail, police said.
Lehigh
Valley leases MedEvac 7 from Air Methods, a medical helicopter company
based in Englewood, Colo. Lehigh Valley also leases the helipad in
Pottsville from Mazzuca Enterprises.
At 3:52 a.m. Saturday,
police were dispatched to 512 N. 14th St., the helipad, for a report of a
man attempting to enter the helicopter, police said.
"This gentleman tried to raid the refrigerator at the headquarters there. Other than food, nothing else was taken," Burns said.
Police
said the man fled on foot but they had a description from a witness and
took Camodeca into custody in the 1300 block of Mount Hope Avenue. As
the investigation continued, police discovered Camodeca had broken into
Phillips' residence on Laurel Boulevard.
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