ADAMS TWP — Police said a dispute Friday over a six-month-old alleged debt landed a Tarentum, Allegheny County, man in Butler County Prison.

Erle William Patterson Jr., 49, is charged with felony attempted criminal trespass, misdemeanor defiant trespass and summary public drunkenness after police said he showed up intoxicated to collect $500 from a customer.

According to Officer Ian Ging's affidavit, Patterson arrived at the former customer's house at 9 a.m. and began knocking on the front door before moving to the backyard. There, police say, he threw a stick at a second-floor window, moved back around front, called the house phone repeatedly and knocked again on the door.

Ging's report states Patterson went again to the backyard, where he allegedly opened a sliding-glass door until it was stopped by a dowel. When police arrived, they found an allegedly “upset and agitated” Patterson walking from the backyard. “His nostrils were flared, he was speaking loudly and exaggerating grandiosely, and his chest was rising and falling rapidly,” Ging's affidavit states. “I immediately detected an odor of alcoholic beverage emanating from his breath and person.” Police took him to Butler County Prison, where he remains in lieu of $5,000 bond. Court documents do not indicate if he has an attorney.