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Monroe County man hit with more stalking charges

Rocky Sokolowski was charged last week after similar allegations in Dollar Tree stores and a Weis Markets store in Monroe County.

MONROE COUNTY, Pa. — 36-year-old Rocky Sokolowski of Saylorsburg is now locked up at the Monroe County Prison after being hit with new charges of stalking and invasion of privacy.

State police had previously filed those same charges against Sokolowski, a registered sex offender, last week for allegedly following women and children around inside Weis Market on Route 209 in Chestnuthill Township as well as some Dollar Tree stores in the same area on July 29.

Now investigators say he did the same thing at Rite Aid on Rt. 209 also in Chestnuthill Township where he followed a woman around on July 26, photographing her and smelling the victim.

"It's disturbing,” said Joellen Ryals of Chestnuthill Township. “Not surprising, seems like a lot of people, especially with the masks, do things that they think they can't be caught for. It's disgusting.”

Outside Rite Aid, customers agreed his behavior is disturbing.

"That's disturbing. Doesn't really surprise me with the state of the world, but it is surprising,” said Amanda Narducci of Chestnuthill Township.

Over at Weis, shopper Chris Counterman summed up Sokolowski as this:

"That's just creepy stuff.”

State police also charged Sokolowski with failure to update his change of address, which as a registered sex offender, he must do under Megan's Law.

"It's sickening to know that there's a grown person preying on kids, that's sickening,” said mom Brandey White of Blakeslee.

Speaking outside a Dollar Tree store in a plaza off Route 209, White says she's glad to hear Sokolowski is behind bars and hopes he will stay there for a long time.

"Definitely, people like that shouldn’t be allowed to just walk in and out of jail, they should getting a long sentence,” said White.

Rocky Sokolowski is being held at the Monroe County Prison on $200,000 bail

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