Police said they seized loaded magazines for firearms and numerous prescription pills belonging to a man accused of threatening a woman’s life Friday night. They also found him with a gun in his car.
Carlos D. Eackles, 41, of Pittsburgh was arraigned on a list of charges, two of them felonies, and placed in Butler County Prison on $25,000 bail.
Slippery Rock Police said they were called about 10:30 p.m. to the Madison Grove Apartments on Grove City Road, where a woman reported she was assaulted.
The alleged victim identified Eackles as her assailant. She lives at the apartment complex. She said that the defendant apparently stays there, too.
She claimed he threw objects at her. They missed her but struck and damaged a wall, according to court documents.
Eackles allegedly struck her in the back of the head with the bottom end of a light stand. While leaving for his vehicle, police said, he threatened to kill the woman.
Officers got to the apartment building and found Eackles’ car. They found him, documents said, hiding in the bathroom of another apartment.
Police said a search of his car turned up a 9 mm pistol and loaded magazine inside the liner of his jacket that was on the passenger seat.
The defendant, police noted, does not have a license to carry a firearm. The gun does not belong to the defendant, police added.
The woman, according to a police affidavit, allowed officers to search a night stand and one side of a closet that she claimed Eackles uses at the apartment.
The search allegedly turned up a digital scale, rolling papers and several unlabeled pill bottles.
The bottles contained an assortment of medication including 54 tablets of gabapentin, a prescription drug used in the treatment of nerve pain and seizures, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website.
There were 83 other pills found, including 40 that were unmarked.
In the part of the closet Eackles uses, documents said, police also seized two loaded gun magazines.
He was arraigned on felony charges of carrying a firearm without a license and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. He also was arraigned on misdemeanor terroristic threats, simple assault, and possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia counts.
