An Erie man incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Forest has been charged with making threats to kill Superior Court judges and blow up courthouses, including McKean County.
Adam William Mallin, 32, was charged by Marienville-based state police with 10 counts of terroristic threats and three counts of making bomb threats, all first-degree misdemeanors. He is in SCI-Forest serving a sentence of 8 to 25 years on charges out of Erie County, including making threats against Erie County court officials and threatening to blow up the courthouse.
The criminal complaint, according to EYT Media, alleged that state police were contacted by the protection unit of the state Superior Court on Sept. 14 after the court had received two letters from Mallin, an inmate at SCI-Forest.
The security representative told police that Mallin “threatened to kill all of the Superior Court judges, the court prothonotary, the deputy prothonotary, and a deputy attorney general,” and threatened to blow up the Superior Courthouse, the McKean County Courthouse and the Erie County Courthouse, EYT Media reported.
It was not immediately clear what connection Mallin had to McKean County.
On Oct. 5, Marienville state police received another report from the security representative saying another letter had been received from Mallin, with more threats including to kill family members of judicial officials and police officers if law enforcement was contacted, the criminal complaint alleged.
Police obtained writings submitted by Mallin to SCI Forest personnel and found that the handwriting on those documents matched the handwriting in the threatening letters, EYT Media reported.
Mallin is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Feb. 1 before District Judge Daniel Miller in Forest County.
According to the Erie Times News, state police accused Mallin of mailing two batches of letters to court officials and law enforcement in October 2013 and January 2014. The letters contained threats to harm or kill the recipients and their families and to blow up the Erie County Courthouse and federal courthouse in Erie.
At the time those letters were sent, Mallin was serving a state prison sentence of two to four years, from an April 2011 case in which Millcreek Township police accused him of calling police to a West Grandview Boulevard residence and then pulling a weapon on two officers.
Mallin was initially given a county prison sentence in the Millcreek case, but he was resentenced and sent to state prison in 2012 when his parole was revoked, the Times News reported.
