DUBOIS – A DuBois man has been incarcerated for allegedly threatening to shoot officers at the DuBois Police Station in a Facebook post.
Police say Daniel James Main, 48, made the comment on a DuBois City police post of a photo thanking two members of the public for a donation on Oct. 12.
Using the name “James Mahorik”, Main allegedly wrote “will walk in with a sawed-off shotgun and start blowing heads off clean for the terrorism done to me.” Shortly after, the comment was deleted, according to the affidavit of probable cause.
This threat caused the officers to “be diverted from their normal customary operations.” They set up extra security and changed their entry and exits to the station for safety reasons.
An investigation was able to get the IP address for the source of the post, which was then traced to Main, who was suspected previously of making threats to police officers via social media.
In July, the Federal Bureau of Investigation contacted city police asking them to contact Main and “make inquires as posts he made threatening police officers,” according to the criminal complaint.
Main reportedly has two 9 millimeter pistols and two .40 caliber pistols registered to him. When a search warrant was executed on his home, police say they found two rifles and a shotgun along with his cell phone and five laptops.
In an interview with investigators, Main initially denied making the threats, then said if he posted it, he was joking around.
He admitted to sending something “bad to the police,” but thought he was only posting it on his own page, according to the report.
It was noted in the affidavit that Main lives alone and said he had not had visitors for some time.
Main, who is charged with felony counts of terroristic threats and criminal use of communication facility, is being held in the Clearfield County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bail.
His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Friday at 9:45 a.m. at District Judge David Meholick’s office in DuBois.
