EVANS CITY — A district judge on Wednesday, April 30, increased bail for a Renfrew man charged with firing a homemade rifle on his property that is adjacent to Connoquenessing Elementary School.

District Judge Amy Marcinkiewicz increased bail from $35,000 to $100,000 for Bryan K. Hartman, 57, and set conditions he must abide by if he is released from prison after she granted him a continuance of his preliminary hearing because he didn’t have an attorney.

State police charged Hartman with three felony counts of possession of a firearm while prohibited and one misdemeanor count each of reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct following the April 19 incident in Connoquenessing Township.

Police were dispatched to the 1100 block of Evans City Road after a resident reported their neighbor was shooting guns on his property. The neighbor went to the area where the shots were fired from and found and photographed two rifles lying in the yard, according to police.

Hartman is not allowed to possess a firearm because he was convicted of a felony drug charge in 2001, police said. When he was arrested that day, police said they found three homemade .22-caliber rifles and numerous boxes of ammunition in his home, and two of the rifles matched the ones photographed by the neighbor, according to police.

In addition to increasing Hartman’s bail, Marcinkiewicz placed him on pre-trial supervision, banned him from the school property, prohibited him from contract with students, staff and administrators, prohibited him from possessing firearms and ordered him to be placed on electronic monitoring if he is released.