Donora man faces charges he threatened to kill people at his polling place
DONORA – A Donora man is facing charges he threatened to kill people at his polling place because he believed a woman who campaigned on Election Day stood too close to the front door.
Donora police accuse Mark Sinip of making the threat about 1 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Croatian Club, 300 Castner Ave., to a voter and six others who worked that day at the polling place, court records show.
Sinip allegedly became irate because Michelle Kitchens campaigned there for a candidate on the ballot. It was not known if Kitchens was standing in the “no-campaigning zone” at the door to the club, police stated in the affidavit.
Sinip is accused of complaining that his constitutional rights had been violated before poll workers asked him several times to leave.
A voter accused Sinip of making the threat to her from his vehicle before he drove away.
“I’m going home and getting something and you’re all going to die,” police accuse him of saying to the voter.
The woman feared for her safety and returned to the club, police said in court records.
At the recommendation of the Washington County district attorney’s office, police Thursday filed seven counts of making terroristic threats and two counts of disorderly conduct against Sinip, 54, of 1104 Ninth St.
District Judge Mark Wilson issued the charges in a summons.