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KINGSTON TWP. &mdash; An inmate in a state prison was arraigned Thursday on charges he burglarized a house in 2019.
				Township police allege Nathan Scott Daniels, 37, last known address as Schoolhouse Road, Tunkhannock, entered a Kimberly Lane home under renovations through a basement window and stole coins, cash, video cameras and a router on June 9, 2019.
				Daniels was allegedly recorded by surveillance cameras staking out the house and standing on the front porch.
				Records from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections say Daniels is serving a parole violation in connection to a fatal drunken driving crash in Newton Township, Lackawanna County, in June 2008. Daniels fled to Florida after he fatal crash and was captured a year later. He pleaded no contest to charges of homicide by vehicle while under the influence and reckless endangerment, and was sentenced in March 2010 to six to 12 years in prison, records say.
				According to the criminal complaint:
				The Kingston Township homeowner told police the house was being renovated when he noticed a router, video cameras, coins and cash missing. Surveillance cameras recorded a man lurking along a tree line looking at the house while another camera recorded the suspect on the front porch attempting to open the front door.
				Police said the suspect entered the house through a basement window that was pushed in, leaving behind a shoe print on the debris.
				Police eliminated construction crews renovating the house.
				A township officer identified Daniels as the alleged burglar from images captured by cameras.
				Township police learned police in Kingston suspected Daniels to be involved in several break-ins, and were involved in a vehicle pursuit with Daniels.
				After Daniels was arrested, he claimed he was only the look-out at the Kimberly Lane house, the complaint says.
				Police in the complaint say surveillance cameras recorded only Daniels at the house and carrying stolen items.
				Coins that were stolen from the house were found and returned to the homeowner, police said.
				Records say Daniels was paroled from state prison in September 2018, and returned as a violator in July 2019. 
				Daniels was arraigned via video conference by District Judge Brian Tupper in Kingston Township on two counts of criminal trespass and one count each of burglary and theft. He remained jailed at the State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy City.

Kingston Township police charge inmate with burglary