HARRISBURG—Charges of Mob Action and Home Invasion have been filed in a wild incident that sent nearly every law enforcement vehicle in Harrisburg to a residence outside the city park.
The whole thing went down around 4 p.m. on Monday, January 13, 2014, when local crim Kently Nowakowski (whose antics and criminal activity are well known in both Saline and Gallatin counties), 27, of Harrisburg, showed up at the home of Jason Grotberg, 1340 West Robinson Street in Harrisburg just outside the city park, with at least one ex-girlfriend and her young friends in tow.
Paperwork filed on the case indicates that Nowakowski is charged first with a count of Home Invasion, a Class X felony, for entering the Grotberg dwelling with persons present and while armed with a dangerous weapon, a padlock, used force in the act of entering.
A count of Mob Action, a Class 4 felony, was filed against Nowakowski as well; in that charge, it’s alleged that he used force to disturb the public peace in that he, while acting together with Kristin M. Lewis, Erica May and Jessica M. Doherty, struck Grotberg about the body.
Doherty, 20, of Harrisburg, is also charged with the same Class X Home Invasion felony as Nowakowski, as well as the Mob Action count.
Ex-Nowakowski girlfriend Kristin Lewis, 21, is also charged with the same two felonies. However, she is also facing an additional charge of Obstructing Justice, a Class 4 felony, for allegedly furnishing false information to assistant police chief David Morris, telling him that Nowakowski was not a passenger in a black Dodge Avenger (pictured here).
Also charged with the Home Invasion, Mob Action and Obstruction counts was Erica B. May, 26, of Omaha.
Reports of other underage females being present at the scene were unsubstantiated as of press time; however, if the females were juveniles, their record wouldn’t have been available anyway.
It was reported that there was alcohol involved in the situation, but to what degree is uncertain.
Nowakowski is a drug felon in Saline whose record includes an impressive array of violence charges, which he has for the most part been able to wrangle out of, and which date back to 2005.
Doherty is on felony probation from a 2011 Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, which will likely be revoked under the current circumstances.
Lewis is the daughter of a well-to-do farm family in Saline County and is also a felon, but not of drugs (that charge was dismissed, likely in exchange for a plea to her one felony, Harassing/Intimidating a Witness or Family Member, dating back to 2010).
May has no criminal record in Saline but the record as of press time hadn’t been examined in Gallatin County.
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the case are the Facebook pages of the girls involved, who seem to fancy themselves some kind of white, pudgy gangsta bitches who speak like thugs and threaten people repeatedly and with impunity.
All those involved have been set for hearings in their multiple felonies during the first week of February.