CLEARFIELD – A DuBois man, who threatened to shoot officers at the DuBois Police Station in a Facebook post, pleaded guilty Monday during sentencing court.
Police say Daniel James Main, 49, made the comment on a DuBois City Police post of a photo thanking two members of the public for a donation on Oct. 12, 2023.
Using the name “James Mahorik”, Main allegedly wrote he would “walk in with a sawed-off shotgun and start blowing heads off clean for the terrorism done to me.” Shortly after, the comment was deleted.
Prior to sentencing Monday, Main apologized saying he was “very sorry”.
President Judge Fredric J. Ammerman sentenced him to serve 11 months, 29 days (time served) to two years less one day in the county jail and three years concurrent probation for one misdemeanor count of terroristic threats.
He was also ordered to complete mental health counseling.
According to the affidavit, Main’s threat caused the officers to “be diverted from their normal customary operations.” They set up extra security and changed their entry and exits to the station for safety reasons.
An investigation was able to get the IP address for the source of the post which was then traced to Main who was suspected previously of making threats to police officers via social media.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation contacted city police asking them to contact Main and “make inquires as posts he made threatening police officers,” according to the criminal complaint.
Main reportedly has two 9 millimeter pistols and two .40 caliber pistols registered to him. When a search warrant was executed on his home, police say they found two rifles and a shotgun along with his cell phone and five laptops.
In an interview with investigators, Main initially denied making the threats, then said if he posted it, he was joking around. He admitted to sending something “bad to the police”, but thought he was only posting it on his own page, according to the report.
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