SUNBURY - A pre-trial conference will be held in June in Northumberland County Courts in the case against a man who threatened his former girlfriend and claimed he would do "worse than what happened in Connecticut" at Priestley Elementary School near Northumberland last year.
Jeremy Church, 37, will appear before Judge Charles Saylor at 9:15 a.m. June 7 before his actual trial, which has not yet been scheduled.
Church last appeared before Saylor on April 15 for a bail reduction hearing, but he was denied that motion and he remains incarcerated in lieu of $125,000 bail at Northumberland County Prison, where he has been since his Dec. 20 arrest.
The defendant has a mailing address of 249 W. Market St., Middleburg, but told police he had been living out of his car at times.
Church is accused of threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend, Valerie Eisenhuth, of Northumberland, and claiming he was going to retrieve their child from Priestley Elementary School and do "worse than what happened in Connecticut." The threat came just six days after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children and six staff before shooting himself.
Church was taken into custody without incident about one hour after making the threat, which he had made during a phone conversation with Eisenhuth.
No one was harmed, although Priestley Elementary School in Point Township and four other buildings that make up Shikellamy School District were locked down during the incident and police blocked off roads leading to Priestley.
In addition to the charges of terroristic threats filed by Point Township police, Church also was arrested by Point Township police for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia involving a search of his vehicle Dec. 21.