Police: Man Arrested For Threatening Kids With Knife

A homeless man was arrested on Friday morning after allegedly threatening to stab five juveniles with a knife, police said.

The incident happened around 7:40 a.m. in the 3000 block of Clayton Drive in the Pennwood Crossing mobile home park as the juveniles were playing basketball and waiting for a school bus, according to police.

According to police, Falls Township officers were dispatched to the area following reports of an armed subject. Upon arrival, they were informed by several parents that the man – later identified as Keith Binney, 58 – confronted the juveniles.

“What are you looking at? Do you want to get stabbed?” he allegedly said.

Binney was brandishing a small silver knife and making a stabbing motion as he talked to the kids, police said.

In fear, the juveniles fled to the safety of a nearby home, police said.

Binney then left the scene, but he was later located and detained at a nearby Wawa, police said.

The juveniles positively identified Binney as the man who threatened them, according to court papers filed Friday afternoon.

A search conducted by the officers at the time of his arrest revealed Binney was in possession of the silver knife, along with a small metal container holding crystallized rocks believed to be methamphetamine and a glass pipe with black residue, police said.

Binney was charged with five counts each of simple assault, terroristic threats, harassment, and single counts of possession of a weapon, possession of a controlled substance, and use/possession of drug paraphernalia. Binney was preliminarily arraigned before District Judge John Galloway and sent to the Bucks County Correctional Facility on 10 percent of $500,000 bail.

Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.

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