Summers

BUCKHANNON — An Upshur County man faces felony and misdemeanor charges, including stalking, after allegedly stealing a package from his ex-wife’s building, where he had been banned for trespassing.

Thomas Clayton Summers, 36, is charged with one count of entering without breaking, a felony, as well as one count of petit larceny and one count of stalking, both misdemeanors.

Summers is currently being held at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $15,000 property/surety bond for the felony charge, and a $5,500 property surety bond for the misdemeanor charges.

According to the criminal complaint, filed by Patrolman Cole Bender with the Buckhannon City Police, on Dec. 18, Bender was provided video footage from Top Line Properties that allegedly showed Summers entering a building on Walnut Street at 10:16 a.m.

The footage also shows a mailman delivering a package to the building at 10:38 a.m., then it allegedly shows Summers leaving the building with the package at 10:57 a.m., the complaint states.

Summers was allegedly wearing “something to conceal his face in the video.” However, a Top Line Properties employee identified the male subject as Summers after allegedly seeing him in an alley earlier that day “wearing the same clothing.”

On Dec. 19, Bender spoke with the alleged victim, who stated that she and Summers were divorced, but Summers allegedly would come by “repeatedly” to ask for money, despite him being banned from the building for trespassing, the complaint states.

The alleged victim told Bender that the package contained a $45 cardigan from the alleged victim’s daughter, the complaint states. She also told Bender that this incident had caused her “a lot of stress.” When Bender asked if it had caused her “severe emotional distress,” the alleged victim stated that she had been unable to sleep because she was “scared to death.”