Cintron
Photo courtesy of the Luzerne County Division of Corrections
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BUTLER TWP. — A man from Chicago, Ill., was charged with criminal attempt to commit criminal homicide along with a long list of other criminal offenses following a pursuit through several Luzerne County municipalities that ended near Barnsville in Schuylkill County.
Isaac D. Cintron, 32, was denied bail after his arraignment before District Judge Carol A. Davenport of Shickshinny early Monday night.
Cintron initiated a pursuit when Butler Township police spotted a reported stolen Ford Explorer in the parking lot of Dunkin Donuts on North Hunter Highway just after 8 a.m. Monday, according to the criminal complaint.
The Ford was reported stolen by the Fairlawn Police Department in New Jersey.
Another occupant in the Ford, identified as Keith Gianotti, was left behind at Dunkin Donuts when Cintron sped away, the complaint says.
Police pursued Cintron who traveled east in the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 where he struck another vehicle. Cintron abandoned the Ford and walked toward a stopped vehicle and fired two shots at the driver, who reversed his vehicle, according to the complaint.
After firing the shots, the complaint says, Cintron ran into a wooded area and walked into the Sand Springs housing community where he entered a residence on Refuge Circle by climbing through an open first floor window.
Once inside the house, Cintron threatened the homeowner with the handgun and demanded the keys to their vehicle he was not able to start, the complaint says.
Cintron then allegedly carjacked a woman’s Toyota Rav4 at gunpoint at Refuge Circle and Long Run Road telling the woman to take her 3-year-old son with her.
The complaint says Cintron drove out of the housing community and was spotted by state police initiating a pursuit on Interstate 80 and onto Route 54 where he was apprehended near Barnsville in Schuylkill County.
During an interview with state police investigators, Gianotti claimed he has known Cintron for several years and met up with him in West Haven, Conn, on Saturday. Gianotti accompanied Cintron as they planned to visit a woman in Chicago driving in a sedan.
Gianotti told investigators he fell asleep on the ride and woke up in a housing development in New Jersey as Cintron arrived in a Ford. Gianotti claimed their belongings were transferred from the sedan into the Ford as Gianotti climbed into the back of the Ford to go back to sleep, only to be awakened when they stopped at the Dunkin Donuts in Butler Township, the complaint says.
In addition to attempted criminal homicide, Cintron is charged with nine counts of simple assault, eight counts of aggravated assault, seven counts of reckless endangerment, three counts of theft, two counts of propel missiles into occupied vehicle, and one count each of robbery, robbery of a motor vehicle, burglary, criminal trespass, receiving stolen property, fleeing or attempting to elude police, evading arrest and illegal possession of a firearm.
No charges have been filed against Gianotti.