A 72-year-old former Bradford teacher is in McKean County Jail for allegedly escalating harassment and threats of her neighbors to the point where she said their children would be “slaughtered like pigs,” according to police.

Nancy Fire, of 29 Abbott Road, is charged with two counts of terroristic threats, first-degree misdemeanors; two counts of disorderly conduct and one of harassment, third-degree misdemeanors; improper communications with 911, a third-degree misdemeanor; and harassment, a summary offense.

The pages-long criminal complaint, written by Bradford City Police Chief Mike Ward, starts off with background on years of escalating activity in her Abbott Road neighborhood. He described her cases before the magisterial district judge in the past, and a current case in the McKean County Court of Common Pleas, which she failed to show up for last week.

Since 2021, she made 47 calls to 911 alleging false conduct by her neighbors, including “satellite rape” done through her wifi and electronics. She’s claimed Ward is making her appliances talk to her. Ward said he has repeatedly advised her that her claims are false and offered her mental health help, which she refuses, the complaint stated.

In October, she went to the Bradford City Police station to meet with Ward and demanded the police stop her neighbors from the “satellite rape,” which Ward again told her was not real and offered to take her to the hospital, which she declined. She accused the police of being involved in the “gang stalking” against her, and said she’d armed herself with a knife at all times and was prepared to use it to defend herself. Ward told her if she was having thoughts of harming people, she would be arrested, to which she claimed it was only for defense against her neighbors. Ward told her again the neighbors had done nothing wrong, her beliefs were fictitious and she needed to get help, the complaint stated.

The neighbors have continued to document escalating behavior on Fire’s part, where she goes outside at night, with the intent to scare her neighbors, slams doors and garbage can lids, puts a phone on her porch and lets it ring, and makes accusations of “satellite rape” against her neighbors, the complaint stated.

She yells out racial slurs and is degrading and demeaning to neighbors, and had gone to one neighbor’s employer and attempted to have him disciplined for the alleged “satellite rape,” the complaint stated.

Last month, during an incident at 11:38 p.m. outside her home, she said her neighbors’ children would be “slaughtered like pigs” and two days later, was outside at 4:22 a.m. degrading a neighbor, and specifically named their child, the complaint stated. While she was yelling, she accused one neighbor, a medical professional, of being involved in the death of her parents years before.

On Nov. 30, at 12:20 a.m., she was outside yelling about the alleged assaults and said the cops are “going down too for gang stalking,” and then began yelling racial slurs before starting up with slamming doors, the complaint stated.

At 2:15 a.m. Dec. 2, she was outside yelling, accusing one of her neighbors of breaking into her house 10 times a day and said, “I will take a child’s life.” She continued making noise and disrupting the neighborhood, the complaint read.

At 10:05 a.m. Dec. 2, she was outside yelling that her neighbors must stop harassing her, and continued accusing them of fictitious activities and then said, “Your children will pay,” the complaint stated.

Ward indicated that her actions have been ongoing since 2020 despite numerous citations.

“She does not care as she has been known to say she will not entertain any kangaroo court,” the chief stated in the complaint. “She has no respect for the rule of law by her own admissions and actions.

“This officer has tried every angle to get (her) to cease and desist since this all started, but it has not worked,” Ward wrote, saying she has continued to escalate the situation.

Fire was arrested Friday and arraigned before District Judge Dom Cercone, who remanded her to jail in lieu of $50,000 bail. She is scheduled to appear in Central Court on Thursday.

In her prior case, for which she failed to appear in McKean County Court, she is represented by attorney Dawn Fink.