Apr 25, 2006 By Josh Krysak 2 min read

A preliminary hearing for a Normalville man will be held next week after he allegedly raped a 66-year-old Normalville woman suffering from multiple sclerosis and then stole $800 from her residence Sunday, police said. Raymond Lucas Prinkey, 18, was charged with burglary, rape, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse and theft before Magisterial District Judge Wendy Dennis following the incident Sunday morning.

And, according to investigating officer Trooper George A. Mrosko Jr., Raymond Lucas Prinkey is the son of 49-year-old Raymond Prinkey who was charged in 2005 with shooting death of a Connellsville man.

Mrosko said in the criminal complaint filed in the case that Prinkey walked from his Harris Road residence to the woman’s house and entered her home with a key he found on her porch around 12:45 a.m.

Mrosko said Prinkey then told officers he went through the home searching for drugs when he heard the woman in her bedroom.

Police said the woman, who had been sleeping but awoke when she heard someone in the home, went into the bathroom. Prinkey grabbed her when she was in the bathroom. He then led her back into her bedroom, where he forced her to have sexual intercourse, police said.

Prinkey then left the woman and searched the house further for cash and drugs, police said.

After finding $800, Prinkey cut the phone lines in the house, blindfolded the woman and fled the home on foot, Mrosko said.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9:45 a.m. May 2 before Magisterial District Judge Robert Breakiron.

He is being held in the Fayette County Prison on $25,000 bond.

Prinkey’s father, Raymond Prinkey, of 305 Rogers Mill Road, rejected a plea to first-degree murder Monday in Fayette County Court for allegedly shooting James Cononico on Oct. 19, 2005. Cononico was living with Prinkey’s estranged wife at the time of the shooting.