Mar 4, 2021
MUNCY – An elderly man faces misdemeanor charges for threatening to bring a gun to the Weis Market on East Penn Street in order to get the vaccine for COVID-19, state police alleged.
William Cardennis, 82, of 179 Heatherbrooke Estates, was charged following the incident that occurred in the Muncy Creek Township supermarket about 5 p.m. on Feb. 22, police said.
He has been charged with one count each of terroristic threats and disorderly conduct, police said.
Cardennis approached a female employee in the store’s pharmacy and asked about how to get a vaccination shot for the virus.
When the woman told him there were no more vaccines that day and that he would have to schedule an appointment online for a later date, he told her, “Well, I have a gun at home. If I brought it (to the store), would I get the vaccine? ‘Cause I’d do it,” according to an affidavit filed by Trooper Matthew Chamberlain.