Two found living atop elevator shaft

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - Springfield Police say that they found containers of human waste outside a room above a elevator shaft at the Sheraton Hotel, where two people were living illegally.

Sergeant John Delaney told 22News that officers arrested Megan Disley, 22, and Joseph DeMarco, 30 early Thursday morning at the hotel on Boland Way.

Police were called there on a breaking and entering complaint at the hotel after Midnight. Delaney says that Sheraton security told officers that a man and woman had been hanging around the hotel for the last week, and that they worried they were living in a small room above the guest elevator shaft.

When police got to the room, they saw that the door was pried open, and noticed containers of urine and human excrement outside. Disley and DeMarco were found inside the room sleeping on pillows and blankets stolen from the hotel, Delaney said.

Disley and DeMarco are being charged with breaking and entering, trespass, larceny under $250, possession of burglarious instruments, and carrying a dangerous weapon (a double-edge knife). They will be arraigned in Springfield District Court.