Three charged in burglary spree

By DAVID HULSE

HONESDALE, PA — State police on October 29 arrested two Wayne County men on charges related to an armed robbery and four other incidents of burglary dating back to July.

A third man was charged in connection with three of the burglaries.

Michael Parenti, 29, of 325 Grandview Ave. in Honesdale and Charles Nober, 21, of Beach Lake were charged in connection with an early morning, October 25, attempted armed robbery at Kuesters Bar in Beach Lake, where Parenti allegedly brandished a sawed-off shotgun during the incident.

Police charge that Robert Miller, 22, of Milanville joined Parenti and Nober in a September 9 burglary at Kuesters, where they stole a cash register, rifled it of an undetermined amount of cash and left it alongside nearby Fonda Road.

Police charge that the spree began on July 3, when Parenti and Nober burglarized the Adam Davis residence in Berlin Township, where they allegedly stole three pistols, a rifle and two shotguns.

In the early morning of August 30, police say the three broke into Joe’s Kwik Mart on Route 652, where they are charged with taking $380 and 22 cartons of cigarettes, valued at $45 each.

The last incident was again at Joe’s Quik Mart in the early morning of October 29, when the three allegedly broke in and again were said to have taken cash and cigarettes.

State police arrested the trio later that same day and recovered the weapon used at Kuesters from a house in Honesdale.

Nober was charged with multiple counts of Burglary, Theft, Receiving Stolen Property, Criminal Conspiracy and Criminal Mischief.

Parenti was similarly charged, with the addition of a Robbery charge.

Miller was charged with three counts of Criminal Conspiracy.

The three men were arraigned before District Justice Bonnie Lewis and each was ordered held at the Wayne County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail.