CLEARFIELD – The bail for a Morrisdale woman accused of harassing several men who were cutting timber near her home in Cooper Township was revoked.
Patricia J. Dunzik, 66, 102 Krasinski Farms Rd., Morrisdale, is charged with simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, resisting arrest, defiant trespass, hunting without securing license and harassment as the result of an incident on the morning of Nov. 25 when Dunzik, who had a rifle, allegedly yelled at the men to get off her land.
Last month the commonwealth filed a motion to revoke her bail because of a second incident on the property. A hearing was held after which President Judge Fredric J. Ammerman ruled not to revoke her bail at that time, but to continue the hearing for two months. If Dunzik had any additional contact with the men, her bail would be revoked. However, if she abided by the “no contact” clause of her bail, the motion would be denied.
First Assistant District Attorney Beau Grove stated that as Dunzik left the courthouse after the hearing, she had contact with the witness, Dave Anderson, asking why he was lying in his testimony. Additionally, she approached Anderson and his son again on Feb. 24 as they continued work on the property.
Anderson testified that he was working as an independent contractor for Walker Lumber when Dunzik again approached them. He said she came through the woods, yelling that they needed to stay 100 feet away from her septic system. She had placed yellow tape around that area.
Dunzik’s attorney, David Mason, stated that there is an ongoing civil action regarding the property, and he was not sure why they continued timbering there. He noted that she has a right to keep them away from her septic system because they could possibly damage it.
Grove noted that Dunzik has other avenues to protect her property other than yelling at them and suggested she could have had her husband talk to them instead. He added that Dunzik talking to Anderson outside the courtroom after the hearing had nothing to do with the pending civil action. He said it was a direct violation.
Grove explained that “we get calls every single week from them. They just want to do their job.”
Ammerman asked Davis if she talked to him after court last month and he confirmed she did and she asked him how he could “lie like that.”
Before revoking her bail, Ammerman commented that he had given her “one last chance” last month and that same day she “tells the guy he’s a liar.”
“Enough is enough,” he said and then revoked her bail.
As she was being taken from the courtroom, her husband became visibly upset and had to be removed from room. The witness was taken out through an alternate exit.
In February, Anderson testified that he was one of the loggers working with Walker Lumber when Dunzik approached them on Nov. 25. He said he was working with some others on that same land when she approached him on Dec. 26. She told him he was trespassing and showed him a paper from 1995 that supposedly proved she had purchased the land from her brothers.
During cross examination by Mason, Anderson said she did not threaten them that day, but she did yell at them, telling them to get out.
According to the affidavit of probable cause in the actual case, the victim who works for Walker Lumber Company said they had a contract to log on the Edward Krasinski property. While they were there, Dunzik walked up to them with a hunting rifle. She began to yell, telling them to get off the land. As she yelled at them, she was moving the rifle back and forth vertically, pointing it in the direction of one of the man’s legs. This alarmed the workers so they contacted police.
Krasinski, the property owner, told police that he approached her during the incident and told her to leave his property several times, but she refused. Krasinski noted that his land was posted.
The rifle taken from Dunzik was found to have three rounds of ammunition in a clip inserted into the rifle. She said she was there to bear hunt, but she did not have a bear hunting license.
When she was placed under arrest, it took physical force to place her in handcuffs, get her into the police car and into the police station.