Four men facing felony charges in connection with the destructive celebrations in Beaver Canyon following Penn State's Oct. 25 victory over Ohio State appeared this morning before District Justice Jonathan Grine.
Penn State students Robert T. Cook, 21, 127 Keller St., and Luke Hagen, 20, 340 E. Beaver Ave., and Shane T. Elie, 18, of Olney, Md., were released on $20,000 unsecured bail.
Will R. Forester, 19, of Pittsburgh, was taken to Centre County Correctional Facility in lieu of $5,000 cash bail.
The four men were charged with riot, a third-degree felony.
According to police, Cook was identified in a photograph participating in the riot and damaging a street light.
Hagen climbed a light pole and attempted to break the light fixture attached to it, police said. Hagen also tried to tear down a parking sign, police said.
Elie, a University of Maryland student, climbed a street light pole and was hanging from it when police sprayed him with pepper spray, police said.
Police said Forester, a West Virginia University student, tried to light a large shrub on fire.
Cook, Hagan, Elie and Forester are all scheduled for a preliminary hearing at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
