Two of the three men who police say pushed their way into Penn State students' downtown apartment with a semiautomatic gun turned themselves into authorities Sunday morning, but the third is still on the loose.
Authorities believe the third man is in the Pittsburgh area. Jail officials said the other two men are behind bars at the Centre County Correctional Facility on $30,000 straight bail.
David W. Barrington, Jr., of Stroudsburg, and Arnold J. Sayles, Jr., of North Versailles, were taken into police custody at the State College Police Station at about 10:30 a.m. Sunday after calling 911 to turn themselves in.
Barrington, 18, and Sayles, 19, are each charged with felony robbery, felony criminal conspiracy, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property, according to court documents.
Sayles told police that his cousin Dalen Sayles was the other person involved in the incident, according to court documents. Arnold Sayles said Dalen Sayles arrived at his Lock Haven University dorm room and immediately "talked about robbing people," police said.
Arnold Sayles called an acquaintance of one of the three people in the apartment and asked what apartment they lived in after they drove to State College in Arnold Sayles' gray-and-green Nissan Maxima.
At about 4:40 p.m. Friday, Penn State student Kevin Levy entered the Beaver Terrace apartment, 456 E. Beaver Ave., and closed the door when he heard a knock, police said.
As Levy opened the door, a man with a Pittsburgh Pirates ball cap and a dark bandana covering his head shoved a semi-automatic gun in Levy's face, according to court documents. With the gun at Levy's face, the man pushed his way into the apartment with two other men, police said.
The man with the gun grabbed Levy by the neck and pushed him up against the wall, demanding he sit on the couch with two other Penn State students who were playing guitars, police said.
Police did not reveal which of the three men pointed the gun at Levy or whether that man has been detained.
For the next three minutes, the armed men forced the three Penn State students to sit on the couch, empty their pockets and hand over their cash and cell phones, according to court documents.
Levy sat on the sofa with the Penn State students Judah Batts and Joshua Moninghoff, police said. Batts kept playing the guitar because he "thought it was a prank," police said.
The men tore the guitars out of their hands and threw them on the floor as they made the three students empty their pockets, according to court documents.
The men left with $52 in cash, three cells phones worth an estimated $600, according to court documents. At one point during the incident, Levy got up to empty his drawer to hand over more money.
Police described the gun as a black semiautomatic pistol, black and gray in color and in poor condition.
The three men entered through the front entrance of Beaver Terrace and left through the back entrance in a four-door car, possibly gray in color, according to court documents.
