Credit: Jeff Bohen /LevittownNow
A Levittown man was arrested Tuesday for standing out in traffic on a busy Bristol Township intersection pointing a gun at traffic as it went by.
Bristol Township police responded to the intersection of Bath Road and Route 413 for reports of a black male with a backpack and shorts on pointing a gun at oncoming traffic, court records say.
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Police found the man – identified as Andrew Thomas, 37, of Levittown – in the area of the I-95 overpass and Route 413, and ordered him to the ground the probable cause affidavit says.
“What did I do?” Thomas asked officers, which they then told him about the gun waving reports, court documents show.
Police asked Thomas where was the gun located. Thomas told them it was in his backpack and when officers searched his backpack they located a black BB gun with a container of BBs.
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Officers transferred Thomas to headquarters for processing and then a hearing in front of Magistrate Frank W. Peranteau Sr. at 3 p.m.
Thomas was charged with terroristic threats that cause a serious public inconvenience and simple assault. Peranteau set bail at 10 percent of $25,000 and Thomas was taken to Bucks County Jail,. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on in front of Judge Klien on September 10.
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