Pennsylvania Man Jailed After Cutting Down Sappy Tree

#1 Trouble With A Tree

A Pennsylvania man who cut down a tree dripping sap on his car was arrested after it came crashing down on his apartment building

#2 Raymond Mazzarella, 51 was cuffed by officers

Mazzarella, 51, faces charges of reckless endangerment, aggravated assault and harassment. He chopped down the giant pine tree in his neighbor's yard with a chainsaw Saturday because he thought the sap from one of its branches was ruining his car

#3 Pittston Township officials have condemned the building

Mazzarella and five other people who live in the building now have to find new places to live. After Pittston Township offices condemned the apartment building.

#4 Pittston Township code enforcement officer Terry Best told the TV station...

"He decided the best thing to do was to get rid of the tree," . "Where he thought it was going to go, I have no idea."

Best noted it may be a long time before the residents can come back due to damage to the small apartment building's foundation.

#5 Police said Mazzarella was briefly hospitalized but...

fought with a neighbor two days later, when the neighbor reported him for trespassing. Mazzarella punched the other man and smacked him with the bat when he tried to defend himself with a stun gun, according to police

#6 Rick Woods, another resident of the building

Rick Woods, another resident of the building in the small Luzerne County town near Scranton, said he was sitting on his couch watching TV when the tree smashed the building. I thought a tractor-trailer lost its brakes and just ran into something, not realizing it was the house," Woods said.

#7 Footage from the property, which Mazzarella owns

showed the massive tree lying in the remains of a garage with its branches extending into the middle of the building.The three-foot-wide stump sat cleanly cut nearby.