Preliminary Hearing Continued for McMurray Man Accused of Threatening Trooper

The preliminary hearing that was scheduled today  at The Meadows Racetrack & Casino has been continued.

The preliminary hearing for Dominic LoCastro, 53, will now be held at 9 a.m. Sept. 6 before district Judge Jay Weller.

State police had charged LoCastro with disorderly conduct, making terroristic threats, public drunkenness and harassment after he threatened to “tear” the eyes out of the trooper trying to cite him at The Meadows Racetrack & Casino Saturday.

“I will tear your eyes out. You (expletive deleted) with the wrong person. I’m Dominic LoCastro. You are dead. Your wife and children are dead. I’m coming after your family. You are going to pay,” LoCastro told the trooper, according to the criminal complaint. “I’m going to bury you. I will hunt your family for the rest of my days. You can let me go and be my best friend or I will never leave you alone for the rest of your life.”

The tirade came after the trooper asked LoCastro to leave, and that he would be cited with public drunkenness.

As the pair was riding up the escalator, court documents show that’s when the LoCastro, 53, of 411 Center Church Road, became “aggressive.”

Police said that’s when he threatened violence and needed to be handcuffed and taken to the state police barracks in Washington, where he “continued threatening for hours. The defendant then struck the office wall, damaging it,” according to the criminal complaint.