Bucks Man Threatened Kids With Knife At School Bus Stop: Police

FALLS TOWNSHIP, PA —A homeless man has been charged with making terroristic threats that he would stab five juveniles who were waiting for a school bus Friday morning with a knife, police said.

The Falls Township Police Department Friday charged Keith Binney, 58, with five counts each of simple assault, terroristic threats, harassment, and single counts of possession of a weapon, possession of a controlled substance, and use/possession of drug paraphernalia.

Binney was preliminarily arraigned before District Judge John Galloway and sent to the Bucks County Correctional Facility on 10 percent of $500,000 bail.

Police said the incident took place around 7:40 a.m. Friday in the 3000 block of Clayton Drive in the Pennwood Crossing mobile home park as the juveniles were playing basketball while waiting for a school bus.

Police were dispatched to the area following reports of an armed subject.

They were informed by several parents that Binney confronted the juveniles.

“What are you looking at? Do you want to get stabbed?” he allegedly stated, a court affidavit said.

Binney was brandishing a small silver knife and making a stabbing motion as he talked to the kids, police said.

In fear, the juveniles fled to the safety of a nearby home, police said. Binney then left the scene, but he was later located and detained at a nearby Wawa, police said.

The juveniles positively identified Binney as the man who threatened them, according to court records.

A search conducted by the officers at the time of his arrest revealed Binney had the silver knife, along with a small metal container holding crystallized rocks believed to be methamphetamine and a glass pipe with black residue, police said.