Area man allegedly uses duct tape to block street
A West Leisenring man who got into trouble with the law for trying to meet with the president at the White House in 2006 is facing a new charge following a bizarre incident Thursday. State police said Bernard John Kremposky, 49, was charged with disorderly conduct after he allegedly used duct tape to cordon off Fourth Street at Postal Street near his home in West Leisenring at 10:34 a.m.
The tape, which was strung from signposts across the road, was impeding the flow of traffic.
It was not immediately clear why Kremposky was cordoning off the road.
The incident occurred just one month after Kremposky was released from a brief stint in state prison after pleading guilty to several charges in Fayette County Court in 2007.
In December 2006, Secret Service agents took Kremposky into custody outside the White House after he approached an agent and requested to speak with President Bush.
Agents immediately ran a background check on Kremposky and discovered he was wanted by state police in Fayette County on an outstanding warrant for charges filed in October 2006, police said. Those charges, filed before Magisterial District Judge Wendy D. Dennis, included resisting arrest, harassment and disorderly conduct for an incident at his Fourth Street home involving his sister, state police said.
Kremposky allegedly got into a dispute with his sister over a vehicle and forced her from the home at 305 Fourth St., police said.
Police said troopers responded to Kremposky’s home following the fight and found Kremposky leaning against a car outside the residence wielding an ax handle.
Police said they had to order Kremposky several times at gunpoint to drop the ax handle before he complied, and said he then ran around the back of the home and refused to obey commands from the officers.
Police said they used pepper spray to subdue Kremposky and take him into custody.
Kremposky was sentenced last year to one to three months in state prison for the incident involving his sister.
He was not charged for requesting to see the president in 2006 but did spend one week in the District of Columbia Jail while awaiting extradition to Fayette County on the charges involving his sister.
Fayette County Court records reveal Kremposky has been in and out of court for two decades on charges ranging from simple assault to terroristic threats.
Records indicate that in 1994 Kremposky served 1 to 2 years in a state correctional institution after pleading guilty before Fayette County Judge Gerald R. Solomon on charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.