A Saltsburg man was accused on Tuesday of breaking into a house to rape a woman the night before in Oklahoma Borough.
State police charged Donald Albert Swartz, 31, of 706 Indiana Ave., Saltsburg, with rape and related charges.
Police allege that he sent harassing text messages to the 34-year-old woman on Monday evening threatening to hurt her, the police and himself. According to an affidavit, police at about 8 p.m. took a report and told her how to get a protection from abuse order.
Four hours later, at about midnight, Swartz allegedly broke into her house by removing a screen from a first-floor window and awoke her.
The affidavit claims Swartz told her to "shut up, you had it coming" and assaulted her, holding her down on the bed, the woman told police.
Swartz allegedly warned the woman, "Don't bother calling the cops. I got someone to come after you even if I'm in jail."
In addition to rape, he is charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, terroristic threats, harassment, unlawful restraint, simple assault and loitering and prowling at night.
District Judge Cheryl Peck Yakopec in Allegheny Township ordered Swartz sent to the Westmoreland County jail in lieu of $20,000 bond pending a preliminary hearing.
