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Police: Heroin Addict Breaks Into her Parents' Home

The parents of a 22-year-old woman are pressing charges against her for breaking into their Palmer Township home.

On Saturday, Melissa Wasielewski’s parents told their 22-year-old daughter – a heroin addict – she was no longer welcome in their home. Melissa left, and later the parents went away for the night, but only after having all the locks in the house changed and leaving their two dogs with their son.

The son returned to the house with the dogs Sunday morning and found Melissa inside. At 5-feet-2 and 105 pounds, she gained access by breaking a small bathroom window and climbing in, court records say.

Now she is in Northampton County Prison – after her parents told police they want to pursue charges.

Melissa’s father, Kevin Wasielewski, told David Lembach over the phone that his daughter has been a heroin addict “for some time” and “has stolen from them before to support her habit,” the records say.

Lembach first spoke to the son, Shawn Wasielewski, at the family’s 2916 Hartley Ave. home around 11am Sunday. Shawn said when he came to the house with the dogs, he saw Melissa’s car, a “tannish” Subaru hatchback, parked in the driveway. He found Melissa inside the house. She left through the front door carrying a tote-style bag “full of unknown contents.”

Lembach identified the point of entry as the bathroom window.

In the phone conversation, Kevin Wasielewski confirmed to Lembach that he and his wife, Karen, told Melissa she was no longer welcome and advised her to leave. He also confirmed they had all the house’s locks changed after she left.

The father also said he discovered Melissa inside the home around 8pm Saturday and again advised her to leave. She did, after taking two cans of gasoline from his shed. The records do not say how she got into the home when the father found her Saturday night.

The records also do not say when and where she was taken into custody. But she was arraigned Monday night by on-duty District Judge Diane Marakovits of Northampton and committed to prison after failing to post $2,500 bail.

She was charged with criminal trespass, defiant trespass and criminal mischief (damage to the bathroom window and blinds was under $500, the records say).

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