Website Spurs Group into Breaking into Old Whitehall Country Club, Police Say

Police officers were called to the old Whitehall Country Club property along Provost Road at around 3:20 p.m. on May 1 in response to possible trespassers there, Whitehall police Deputy Chief Richard M. Danko said. When officers arrived, they reported finding a group of six men in their 20s and 30s and charged each of them with defiant trespass. "They read someplace on a website from other people that you could go to this property and skateboard in the abandoned swimming pool," Danko said. Danko said that the group took an unlocked chain off of a post near the property's entrance and pushed through a gate to gain access to the club's swimming pool area. The property's owner was driving by the area and saw the group. Charged were Nicholas Panza, 31, of 45 McKnight St. in Pittsburgh's West End neighborhood; Dominick Scangar, 23, of 207 Orr Ave. in Oklahoma Borough, Westmoreland County; Luke Evanchec, 22, of 103 Textor Dr. in North Versailles Township; Eric Calfo, 21, of 972 Lindberg Ave. in the Lincoln Place neighborhood; William Cunningham, 27, of 6345 Marchand St. in the Shadyside neighborhood; and Daniel Peindl, 21, of 1834 Clayton Ave. in the Perry South neighborhood. Read through other Whitehall police items here. Join Patch for more community news or join us on Facebook and Twitter.