PIKE COUNTY, PA —Matthew Paul Trentacosta, 31, of Matamoras, was sentenced to 19 months to seven years in a state correctional facility, fined $1,100 and had his driver’s license suspended for 18 months for the crimes of retail theft and two counts of possession of a controlled substance.

Trentacosta took merchandise totaling $596 from a retail store in Westfall Township without paying for it on October 16, 2014.

On December 6, 2014 Eastern Pike Regional Police were dispatched to a hotel parking lot in Westfall Township where they found Trentacosta slumped over the steering wheel with a spoon on his lap. When asked if he had anything the officer should know about, he advised the officer he had a needle in his visor and 17 packs of heroin.

On February 23, while in the process of being arrested for an active bench warrant at a parking lot in Matamoras, Trentacosta was found in possession of heroin, syringes, needles, a spoon and a pipe which field tested positive for cocaine.