While a mother and daughter were asleep in their Route 414 cabin near Slate Run early Saturday morning, Jarrette Robert Laflash, of Wellsville, New York, broke into the property through a screen window in the kitchen, state police allege. The two residents were awakened by the noise and suddenly found themselves face-to-face with Laflash, who entered their bedroom with a bottle of syrup, police were told. Laflash, who began drinking the syrup, told the two that “his Cadillac broke down just up the road, and that it would not start,” it was stated in an affidavit.

The mother told the 40-year-old Laflash to get out, police said, adding that she and her daughter did not know the man. After exiting the property, Laflash urinated on the front porch, it was alleged in the court document. The mother called police at once, and while troopers were interviewing her, two other troopers came upon the broken down Cadillac Escalade on Route 414, just north of the cabin, police said. It turned out the car was stolen from Wellsville, a small village, about 15 miles from the New York-Pennsylvania border, police said.

Laflash was soon located sitting on a bench at the nearby Wolfe’s General Store and taken into custody. He was arraigned before District Judge Denise Dieter on felony charges of burglary, trespassing, receiving stolen property as well as several misdemeanors including theft (stealing the syrup bottle), disorderly conduct, loitering and criminal mischief. He remains jailed in the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $250,000 bail.