A Quakertown man is accused of threatening a confidential police informant. Brandon M. Caraballo, 32, of Cedar Lane, faces one misdemeanor count of marking terroristic threats.
            According to law enforcement officials, Caraballo made the threats in a text thread during a discussion about Diane Gibbons, a Bucks County Common Pleas Court judge who is currently presiding over a criminal trial against him. The defendant threatened to kill the anonymous police source.

            Gibbons is currently officiating a case against Caraballo from an alleged incident two years ago in Doylestown Borough. In November of 2019, the Central Bucks Regional Police Department arrested Caraballo on three misdemeanor counts of harassment from an Oct. 16, 2019 incident.

            The defendant waived his right to a preliminary hearing before District Judge Mark D. Douple on Dec. 16, 2019. Caraballo was remanded to Bucks County prison after the judge set bail in the case at 10 percent of $10,000. He stayed there until posting $1,000 on Oct. 30, 2020, according to the judicial website.

            Last week, Caraballo was sent back to jail on the new set of charges the same day he appeared in court before Gibbons on the Doylestown Borough charges. According to county detectives, he made the threat during a conversation with the unnamed informant during a conversation about Gibbons' reputation as a judge. The unnamed person described Gibbons as "notorious for being harsh."

            Caraballo allegedly responded, in part, by texting "…[S]o if I get f**ked then I'll get out of jail eventually and do what I gotta do And I mean that Whole heartedly."

The unnamed source stated that it was not wise to threaten a judge in writing.

            "That's fine I'm just saying I'm harsher than she is," Caraballo wrote, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

            The police source advised a detective that he took the threat seriously and is under constant threat by Caraballo, according to court records.

            Bucks County Detectives filed charges against Caraballo on May 12 in the Richland Township court of District Judge Lisa Gaier. He was remanded to Bucky County prison the following day after District Judge Gary Gambardella set bail in the case at 10 percent of $2.5 million, according to information posted on a judicial website.

            A preliminary hearing on the recent set of charges has been scheduled for 1 p.m. on May 20 before Gambardella, according to the judicial website.