An Ohio man charged with leaving a threatening voicemail for state Rep. Mark Gillen has been released on $50,000 bail pending further court action in Berks County Court, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
Kenneth Yochum, 58, of Hamilton County was held for court following a preliminary hearing Monday before District Judge David Yoch. Yochum faces charges of making terroristic threats, threatening unlawful harm to influence official and political matters, and harassment.<\/p>\n
According to court documents:<\/p>\n
The voicemail left by a male caller on the morning of Dec. 17 stated \u201c\u2026if Pennsylvania thinks they\u2019re going to come after our guns, the \u2026 blood will roll. You get it?\u201d<\/p>\n
A staff member for Gillen, a Robeson Township Republican who has represented parts of Berks County for 15 years, reported the threat to Cumru Township police after the voicemail was left at Gillen\u2019s district office.<\/p>\n
Detectives were able to obtain phone records tracing the call to Yochum.<\/p>\n
On Dec. 20, police officers in Ohio interviewed Yochum at his residence and he admitted leaving the threatening voicemail.<\/p>\n
Yochum was formally charged by Cumru Township police three days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ohio man charged with leaving a threatening voicemail for state Rep. Mark Gillen has been released on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,46,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-172976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-reading-city","14":"tag-reading-city-headlines","15":"tag-reading-city-news","16":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}