A Green Lane man faces 82 criminal counts following an incident June 24 that started with a suicide threat and ended with terroristic threats made against police.
Ronald Lee Yoder, 59, of the 200 block of Green Street, faces 13 counts of aggravated assault, 17 counts of making terroristic threats and 13 counts of simple assault, reckless endangerment, misdemeanor and summary harassment.
Nine members of the Pennsylvania State Police, along with two members of the Upper Perk Police District and Marlborough Township Police Department, responded to Yoder's home after he called 911 threatening to kill himself, according to the affidavit of probable cause filed in the Red Hill District Court of Judge Catherine M. Hummel Fried.
During a second call to the Montgomery County 911 center on June 24, Yoder stated that he had a gun and that he would kill himself "if you don't get me to the Doylestown Hospital my brother's dead," according to the document.
It states that with troopers on the scene, Yoder yelled from his home numerous times that they "should go away. I have something in my hand you don't want to see."
Yoder also allegedly said he had a Camaro with a Corvette engine "and can run you all over on the way out" and that "he was going to kill everyone out there."
The man was in possession of firearms and was a danger to himself and others, police determined.
A search of the Pennsylvania State Police firearms records system showed that he had at least two firearms registered to him, according to law enforcement officials.
During the incident, authorities were forced to evacuate four proximate residents, the document states.
The judge set Yoder's bail at $75,000 cash, then changed it to non-monetary, during a June 28 arraignment, according to information posted on Pennsylvania's Unified Judicial Web Portal.
Yoder is currently being held at Norristown State Hospital, according to Trooper Deanny Wright, a spokesperson at the Skippack barracks.
A preliminary hearing in the case, before Hummel Fried, has been scheduled for 11 a.m. on Monday, July 11, according to the web portal.