DUBOIS – A DuBois man has been charged for threatening employees of the Treasure Lake Property Owners Association after mentioning the mass shootings in Maine.
Sandy Township police say they were called to the POA office on Tuesday, Oct. 31, in response to a report that an employee was threatened by Richard Glenn Vanhorn, 68, who is a property owner at the Cayman’s Landing Campground.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, the employee said she had been talking with a woman who had her ex-husband, Vanhorn, and their daughter on her speaker phone.
“There was a lot of screaming, swearing between the three,” the criminal complaint states.
This woman was complaining about their assessments and citations. After a few of the issues were resolved, the woman left the office.
But, later she returned with Vanhorn and their daughter again on speaker phone. The conversation got “heated again with Richard Vanhorn screaming and swearing.”
The woman asked for the victim to give her check back, because she didn’t want to pay that amount. The employee returned it.
As they were talking, the victim heard Vanhorn on the speaker phone reference the recent mass shooting in Maine.
After the woman warned him not to say “things like that,” Vanhorn reportedly said: “I will come up there and kill” another employee. He continued to say that he knows who she is, described her and where her office is located.
The victim said she knew the woman and Vanhorn owned property there together. She told police she felt Vanhorn would act out on his threats because of the comparison to the Maine shootings and therefore, she was concerned for her own and the other employees’ safety.
The office closed until further notice.
Vanhorn was arraigned Wednesday and placed in the Clearfield County Jail on $25,000 bail.
He is charged with felony terroristic threats, misdemeanor harassment and a summary disorderly conduct count with a preliminary hearing scheduled for Nov. 9.