Mt. Pleasant Township man accused of assault, threatening others at gunpoint

State police arrested a 19-year-old Mt. Pleasant Township man on charges of assaulting a woman and threatening four people with a handgun after they came to his home over the weekend to check on the woman’s welfare.

Blade L. Cole is charged with simple assault, making terroristic threats, harassment, illegal possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, possessing a firearm without a license and receiving stolen property.

State police were called to Cole’s residence on Hill Churches Road about 2 a.m. Saturday for reports of a domestic disturbance, Trooper Brandon Boyd reported.

Witnesses said four people who were at the scene reported that one of them was on the phone with a woman and the phone went dead as she was arguing with Cole. When the four family members and friends arrived at the residence, the woman reported Cole punched her during an argument and then fled, according to court documents.

Cole later returned and got into an argument that became physical and fell to the ground, Boyd said witnesses told him. When Cole stood up, he pulled a black handgun from a pocket, police reported.

“I’m going to shoot each of you. It will be one in the head for all of you,” Boyd reported the witnesses said Cole told them.

Boyd said troopers later found Cole walking on Hill Churches Road and confiscated a .380-caliber handgun that was later discovered to be stolen, a marijuana grinding tool and prescription pills, including Xanax, which had not been prescribed for him.

He was ordered held in the county jail on $5,000 bond.

According to court dockets, Cole has two harassment cases pending before District Judge Charles Moore in East Huntingdon that state police filed in November.