Authorities said a Schellsburg man is behind bars with a million-dollar bail after threatening to kill the Bedford County Sheriff by blowing up the Bedford County Courthouse, according to reports from WTAJ and 6WJAC.
State police said 39-year-old Luke Bartholow has been charged with misdemeanor bomb threats: threatening the placement of a bomb, according to 6WJAC.
It began when troopers were called Jan. 15 to a home in Napier Township after Bartholow violated a protection from abuse (PFA) order. It was then that the victim recorded a phone call with Bartholow in which he threatened to eat the sheriff and kill everyone inside the courthouse with an explosion.
According to WTAJ, police noted that Bartholow was recorded saying things like “I will eat Wayne senior,” and “I just have to grin and pull a string, everybody [in the courthouse] dies”
The sheriff submitted a thumb drive with the recording to State Police as evidence on Jan. 20 and Bartholow was arrested that night.
Bartholow is now being held in the Bedford County Prison.
