Aaron Pinkney, 27, of 2612 Dove St., has been arrested and jailed on felony charges for intimidating two detectives and a third person who were called to testify at one or both of his brother’s preliminary hearings, investigators with the county’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit (NEU) alleged in an affidavit. Both hearings were held at the office of District Judge Aaron Biichle on Aug. 7 and involved charges filed by the narcotics unit. Pinkney attended both hearings, but did not testify.

A veteran NEU detective testified in both cases back-to-back, the court document stated. One case charged Pinkney’s brother with simple assault and possession of marijuana, stemming from an incident in the city on May 30, while the second case charged the man with receiving stolen property (a handgun) and possession of an instrument of crime. These charges stem from an incident on July 8.

During the detective’s testimony for both hearings, Pinkney “maintained eye contact” with the investigator almost the entire time “in an apparent attempt to intimidate me,” the detective wrote in the affidavit. After he was done, the detective took a seat behind Pinkney in the room’s public seating area. At the conclusion of the hearings, Biichle ruled there was sufficient evidence to hold Pinkney’s brother on all charges in both cases.

“I’ll be seeing you soon,” Pinkney told the detective, the affidavit stated. “You better be looking behind you,” he told the investigator. When the detective told Pinkney he considered such remarks as a threat, Pinkney suddenly stood up, pointed at the detective and yelled in the courtroom “Hey, see this? There’s a dirty cop in the courtroom. He’s harassing me,” it was alleged in the court document.

As he and family members filed out of the room, Pinkney allegedly looked directly at a second NEU detective and made a slight remark that appeared to the investigator to be threatening in nature, the affidavit stated. This detective, who also took the stand in the stolen-gun case, told Pinkney that he can “stop it now” and that he was not afraid of him. To which Pinkney told the detective that he should be scared of him, the court document stated.

In the same affidavit, it was alleged that three days after the hearings, on the afternoon of Aug. 10, Pinkney drove past a man on West Edwin Street in the city and told him he was “going to kill him and that the police could not stop him.”

Like the two detectives, the man had testified for the prosecution in the stolen gun case. Pinkney waived his preliminary hearing on all six felony charges on Tuesday before District Judge Christian Frey and remains locked up in the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail.

His brother, Amontae Pinkney, 18, of Williamsport, also remains jailed on a series of charges.