DRUMS, Pa. — A Luzerne County man threatened people in a in a private Butler Township development Monday by waving about a nearly foot-long knife and then tried to flee by bolting through a construction site and by swimming across a nearby creek, township police said.
Police Sgt. Eugene Rafalli eventually caught up with Tyrese Jones and put him in handcuffs. Jones, the sergeant wrote in a criminal complaint, seemed obviously drunk.
The police received several reports late in the afternoon that a man later identified as Jones was walking along Edge Rock Drive in Beech Mountain Lakes and threatening people with a large knife. The police tried to stop him, but he struggled to break free and then ran.
He was caught coming out of the woods on Honey Hole Road. The police also seized his knife — an 11-inch blade with and black sheath — as evidence.
Jones, 39, of Drums, is charged with terroristic threats, simple assault by menace, evading arrest and public drunkenness. Magisterial District Judge Joseph J. Carmody denied Jones bail at his arraignment because he was deemed a "danger to others," according to the case's public docket.
Jones remains locked up at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility and is tentatively scheduled for a preliminary hearing Aug. 15.
It was not clear if he has an attorney.
