In Plea Court yesterday, Indiana County President Judge William Martin accepted guilty pleas to two felonies and three misdemeanors from 36-year-old David Paul Dilts, the Penn Run who went on a crime spree in southern Indiana County in November.
Dilts pled guilty to felony theft and criminal trespass and misdemeanor terroristic threats, simple assault, and recklessly endangering another person. He had been charged with 31 criminal offenses, thirteen of them felonies.
Dilts broke into two homes, one in Conemaugh Township and one in Young Township, and tried to break into another home in Young Township. He stole a pickup truck in the first break-in, and in the second, he stole a .22 caliber rifle and assaulted a woman who arrived home as the burglary was happening. At the third home, he was thwarted when a man there pointed a gun at home and threatened to shoot him. Fleeing, he later crashed the stolen truck in West Wheatfield Township and then tried unsuccessfully to hold up a man and steal his vehicle. He was captured four days later while walking along Twolick Drive in White Township.
The sentencing date has not been announced.
