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Man charged with threatening a Carbon district judge

Published September 30. 2019 11:36AM

 

A man who is in jail for threatening to kill a woman has now been charged with threatening to harm a Carbon County district judge.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by Detective Christopher Ritter of the Carbon County District Attorney’s Office:

On Aug. 19, Mohammad Shah, 50, was arrested on criminal charges by the Nesquehoning Police Department, and arraigned later that evening by District Judge Casimir T. Kosciolek, who set bail and scheduled a preliminary hearing for Aug. 28.

Shah was then committed to the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of bail.

On Aug. 21, the preliminary hearing was rescheduled to Sept. 18, and a rescheduling notice was faxed from Kosciolek’s office to the prison the same day to be signed by Shah.

The notice was faxed back from the prison to Kosciolek’s office on Aug. 26, with vulgarities handwritten in the signature line.

On Sept. 11, the preliminary hearing was again rescheduled, this time to Oct. 2, and a rescheduling notice was faxed again to be signed by Shah at the prison.

The next day, the notice was faxed back from the prison to Kosciolek’s office, and on the signature line, more vulgarities were handwritten.

On the second page was a handwritten note which stated: “(expletive) your days are over my milennia is coming you filthy (expletive) criminals 2nd amendment is imposing in you (expletive) hostage Pennsylvania and (expletive) turn in to hellsylvania we will show you under one God one flag one nation you will have no place to run we wil hunt you down jails will be full streets will be blood I promis I promis (expletive) you go to hell.”

The note on Sept. 12 was viewed by Kosciolek and members of his staff, and the content there within caused Kosciolek and his staff to fear that Shah would attempt acts of violence toward them and their office.

The threats also caused the Lansford Police Department to be on heightened alert and conduct extra security patrols of the District Court facility.

Due to the fears and concerns shared by the judge and his staff, Kosciolek recused himself from Shah’s case.

On Sept. 13, Ritter and Detective Timothy Nothstein of the Carbon County District Attorney’s Office interviewed Shah at the prison.

Shah signed a waiver of his Miranda rights, and consented to an interview during which he admitted writing the note on the rescheduling notice of Sept. 12.

When asked why he wrote the note, Shah stated that all police officers and judges in Pennsylvania are “filthy, corrupt criminals,” and that his mission is to impose the Second Amendment on Pennsylvania.

When asked who the note was for, Shah replied, “This is to the judge.”

Shah also expressed his view that the police officers and judges in Pennsylvania are “filthy and racist” and need to step down.

Shah faces charges of retaliation against prosecutor or judicial official; threats and other improper influence in official and political matters; terroristic threats; and obstructing administration of law or other governmental function.

He is currently incarcerated in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $1 million bail, and is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing Oct. 10 in front of Magisterial District Judge William J. Kissner in the Carbon County Courthouse, Courtroom No. 2.

In the previous case, Nesquehoning police were dispatched to an apartment complex along the 100 block of West Catawissa Street for a report of a burglary.

Police officer Richard Neikam was told that Shah, who lives inside one of the apartments, entered another resident’s apartment and took various food items.

He spoke with the woman, whose apartment Shah stole food from, in another neighbor’s apartment.

The victim told police that she and another resident were watching a movie in his apartment when they heard a knock on the door. Shah then asked them to help him hide his truck from his wife.

The victim agreed to help hide the truck near the park in New Columbus, but on the way back, Shah asked her to go down near the stream with him to talk and she refused. At that time, Shah became irate and threatened to kill her.

The victim returned to her friend’s apartment and Shah then returned, banging on the door and calling her names.

Once Shah left, she went back to her apartment, which had been unlocked, and noticed the food, valued at $45, was missing.

Neikam then went to speak with Shah, who said he had been arguing with his wife and he didn’t want her to take the truck so he asked the victim to hide it with him.

Shah agreed with the victim’s statement about getting angry but denied stealing the food because he had purchased it for her the day before and she never did.

For that incident, Shah was charged with burglary, criminal trespass, terroristic threats, theft and harassment.

He was arraigned before Kosciolek and bail was set at $5,000. He was then taken to the Carbon prison after being unable to post bail.

 

Comments
What an asshat! E freaking sounds like Achmed, “I’ll keel you” 💀 Hopefully a local gentleman or two (or three) will show him how to properly behave while he’s a guest in our country
he's not a guest in our country he's no different from u and I shah have a a house four kids work all his life and pay taxes and he was diagnosed since 2013 and our country needs to improve the system for mental health so please don't judge anyone by what u ready u have a brain used it all he needs is to get proper treatment and he's not the only one who suffering from mental health so again do not judge
The "eye for an eye" statement above about leaving everyone blind, assumes that "everyone" is going to commit crimes and thus will be punished with loss of an eye. There are still a good many folks, especially in this area, sans a few evil doers, who still have good old fashioned values. The guy in the news article is a classic example of why we should not seek to relocate the earth's people to one country, ours. We can't fix him, and now he has made his problem, our problem. Send him back!
send him where are you willing to go with him do u even know shah lives in Monroe county not nesquehoning pa he was sent there for his mental health and been I'll since 2013 and own his own home and have four kids and a wife and he's one of the nicest people I even met the system keep setting him up for failure he not a crack head not a street guy he's a very much family oriented person but because of his illness people take advantage of him a he needs is help but the new got it all wrong making headline news and don't even have all the facts
send him where are you willing to go with him do u even know shah lives in Monroe county not nesquehoning pa he was sent there for his mental health and been I'll since 2013 and own his own home and have four kids and a wife and he's one of the nicest people I even met the system keep setting him up for failure he not a crack head not a street guy he's a very much family oriented person but because of his illness people take advantage of him a he needs is help but the new got it all wrong making headline news and don't even have all the facts
This has nothing to do with the White House. This weirdo is entirely responsible for his own behavior. He came here fully intending to stake his claim upon the belongings of others. He owns nothing here. He worked for nothing here. He paid into nothing here, yet he is ready to stake a claim to the road's, the schools, the welfare system, the judicial system, as if it was all his. And unbelievably people like you supported his decision to come here and rob us of all that we have worked for. He even stakes a claim to our Constitution, yet he is governed by the Constitution of his own country. And if all that weren't enough, he then "shat on the carpet" by threatening a member of our judicial system. He sounds grateful to me. I say we drop him off in your neighborhood. Maybe he could watch your kids after school. Climb down off your moral platitude and wake up!
what he owns u still dreaming to own he's not a cutter man he's not a crack head he's not getto not a criminal u what he' is a husband a father of four work very hard until he got mentally disabled suffer from biplor depression and the system set him up for failure since 2013 he's been looking for mental treatment and he do not live in nesquehoning pa he lives in Monroe county he was sent there to a program called PC's but it's was not the place for him he was surrounded by drug and alcohol abuse people and all he needs was mental help so please get in contact with the news and get the story right
what he owns u still dreaming to own he's not a cutter man he's not a crack head he's not getto not a criminal u what he' is a husband a father of four work very hard until he got mentally disabled suffer from biplor depression and the system set him up for failure since 2013 he's been looking for mental treatment and he do not live in nesquehoning pa he lives in Monroe county he was sent there to a program called PC's but it's was not the place for him he was surrounded by drug and alcohol abuse people and all he needs was mental help so please get in contact with the news and get the story right
what he owns u still dreaming to own he's not a cutter man he's not a crack head he's not getto not a criminal u what he' is a husband a father of four work very hard until he got mentally disabled suffer from biplor depression and the system set him up for failure since 2013 he's been looking for mental treatment and he do not live in nesquehoning pa he lives in Monroe county he was sent there to a program called PC's but it's was not the place for him he was surrounded by drug and alcohol abuse people and all he needs was mental help so please get in contact with the news and get the story right
actually asked a Pakastani about this..... in his country he would most likely be killed by the government..... cutting of of fingers hands and limbs was typically done for theft related incidents
guys it's not your fault for commenting because you don't know the truth not one place in the news it said he's a mental person who suffers since 2013 and had for kids and a wife and lives in Monroe county not nesquehoning pa. he was court order to a program called PC's and the failed him so that's why he's where he is he's not a crack head or a low life he actually own a house and work and pay taxes until 2013 when he got sick the system needs to improve mental health
You just have to love: "diversity"

"they just only come here for "a better life"
Never mind this eye for an eye babble, this is the exact kind of immigrant that becomes radicalized and tries to blow us all up. Racist or not, HE MADE those statements. LOCK HIM UP OR EVEN BETTER-DEPORT HIS AZZ
This type of behavior is so common and disgusting!!!!!! But the judge should not have taken himself off the case...... he gave this sorry excuse for a human being just what he wanted, just what every terrorist wants and that is control through the use of fear!!!! And this is why this country is getting weak.... everyone afraid of what someone else is going to do.... terrorist wins again.......
do you know how the system fail shah he's a father of four and married to America woman for 22 years work and own his own home he's also an America his children and scollar and very educated shah was sent to a mental health program called PC's in nesquehoning pa he doesn't live there he suffer from several mental health issue and the system failed him again and again so before u just read wrong take the time out not to feed into what u ready but to try and walk in his shoes I promise you if u know of him when he's on his meds he's the most giving and nicest person u could evey meet
shah is a very I'll person who plenty of advantage has been taken of because he's mental disabled and he's been failed by the system and he doesn't live in nesquehoning he was sent there to a program called PC's and he was around bad people who too advantage of him
shah is a very I'll person who plenty of advantage has been taken of because he's mental disabled and he's been failed by the system and he doesn't live in nesquehoning he was sent there to a program called PC's and he was around bad people who too advantage of him
To all who have negetive comments without having all facts This man Shah has been dealing with mental issues since 2013 He was in jail because He was put in a program surrounded by drug addicts and He has never used illegal drugs He was suppose to be getting cared for Not for drug addiction but mental illness and the set him up for food and used him and then call the police

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