Man involved in standoff that closed Norwin schools charged with carrying fake sheriff badge

A North Huntingdon man taken into custody Monday after a standoff with state parole agents showed Monroeville police a fake “state police deputy badge,” when questioned for allegedly breaking into a truck last month, according to court papers.

Randolph Eugene Dillinger, 54, was charged last week by Monroeville police on four counts of possessing prohibitive offensive weapons and single counts of impersonating a public servant and breaking into a truck stemming from an Oct. 10 incident.

The court filing Nov. 4 triggered notification to state parole agents that Dillinger violated terms of his 2019 parole from prison and ongoing probation from a 2008 shooting case in Allegheny County, according to authorities.

When agents went to Dillinger’s Crestwood Drive home before 8 a.m. Monday, he refused to come out and fled out a back door. A five-hour standoff resulted in North Huntingdon, affecting nearby schools.

It ended when authorities found Dillinger and took him into custody at a nearby home.

Dillinger was transported to the state prison in Greene County for the parole violation but still has not been arraigned on the new Allegheny County complaints, according to District Judge Jeffery Herbst’s office.

According to records from the Monroeville incident, police received a complaint Oct. 10 that two men were breaking into a pickup.

When three officers got to the scene, they found Dillinger and another man, who has not been charged, behind the victim’s home in an alley.

Officer Brian Frank reported Dillinger gave him his wallet, which contained “a Pennsylvania State Police Deputy Commissioner” badge and driver’s license.

“Dillinger was also observed to have handcuffs, a blackjack and a switchblade on him,” Frank wrote.

Inside Dillinger’s black Hummer parked nearby, police say they found a Taser with two cartridges, three masks, a dagger, “hatchets, axes and knives.”

When questioned about the police badge, Dillinger “stated he carries it just to kid with people,” according to police.

Dillinger also repeatedly denied to Frank that he and his companion broke into the truck. He claimed he was there looking for his companion’s daughter and had just knocked on the door of the home.

However, when police reviewed a security video provided by the victim, it “showed Dillinger looking into the truck and opening the door.”

Dillinger also claimed to police the blackjack, dagger, switchblade and Taser belonged to his father. According to records, Dillinger’s father died in 2015.

Frank also noted in court documents that Dillinger was wearing an ankle bracelet as part of his ongoing court supervision that is not expected to expire until 2022, according to online court records.

Police also reported that, while he was questioned at the police station, Dillinger complained about having breathing problems and was taken for treatment to Forbes Hospital, where he was released, pending the filing of charges.

Dillinger was sentenced to one to five years in jail then three years’ probation after pleading guilty but mentally ill in 2015 to the 2008 case, according to online court records. He fired a gun inside his Glenfield duplex, wounding a neighbor, police said.