Crime & Safety

Bensalem Man Charged After Sending 'Multiple Death Threatening' Emails

Lower Southampton Township Police took Dean Tootman into custody on Friday.

Dean Tootman
Dean Tootman (Lower Southampton Township Police Department)

LOWER SOUTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP, PA — A 36-year-old Lower Bucks County man sent multiple "death-threatening" emails to a Feasterville resident, police said.

The Lower Southampton Township Police investigated a report from a victim who received the emails and determined that a Bensalem man allegedly sent them.

Police took Dean Tootman into custody on Friday and charged him with making terroristic threats.

Police did not reveal how many emails were sent and whether the victim was a man or woman, resident, or business owner.

Tootman was video-arraigned with bail set at $250,000, with 10 percent. He was sent to the Bucks County Correctional Facility, where he will await his preliminary hearing.

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