Home intruder sent to prison

NORRISTOWN >> A Norristown man is on his way to state prison after he trespassed at a borough woman’s home and she awoke to find him in her bedroom.

Marty Gill, 41, who listed addresses in the 600 block of Corson Street and in the 600 block of Astor Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 2-to-4years in a state correctional facility after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of criminal trespass in connection with an April 2018 incident at a Kohn Street residence in the borough.

Judge William R. Carpenter, who accepted a plea agreement in the case, ordered Gill to have no contact with the victim and to stay away from her residence as a condition of the sentence.

Other charges of burglary, defiant trespass and theft by unlawful taking were dismissed against Gill as part of the plea agreement.

An investigation began about 3:46 a.m. April 27, 2018, when Norristown police responded to a residence in the 700 block of Kohn Street for a report of a burglary in progress. A female resident told police she awakened to find a male in her bedroom, according to the criminal complaint filed by Norristown Police Officer Jason Hoover.

“She said that she heard her door open on her third floor bedroom, woke up, saw Gill and began to fight to get him out of the room and house because she was scared for her children and herself,” Hoover alleged in the arrest affidavit, adding four juveniles also were in the home at the time.

The woman was able to get Gill out of the bedroom and she chased him downstairs to the kitchen and out the back door of the house and Gill fled on foot, police alleged.

Officers subsequently located a male, who fit the description of the intruder, on West Oak Street at Hartranft Alley. Police identified the man as Gill and said he had slurred speech and an unsteady gate. When police conducted a pat down search of Gill they found a credit card belonging to the victim in his shirt pocket, according to court papers.

Police also found Gill in possession of loose change and three prescription migraine pills that were traced to having been stolen from the victim’s residence, according to the criminal complaint.

Three pieces of glass also were found in Gill’s pocket. The investigation determined that a glass pane of the victim’s door had been shattered during the break-in, court documents alleged.

The victim subsequently identified Gill as the man who she observed in her bedroom and the man who she chased from her home, police said.