After a bartender ordered him out of Harper’s Creekside Tavern on Little Pine Creek Road in English Center early Sunday morning, 56-year-old John David Fairbanks walked out, got in his pickup truck and drove around the business, “revving his engine and doing burnouts (spinning the vehicle’s wheels rapidly),” it was alleged in a state police affidavit. He drove through yards and damaged flower pots in front of the business, police said. As he was doing this, those inside began locking the bar’s doors and took cover; one, Fairbanks’ former girlfriend, barricaded herself in a freezer while another person inside flipped a table and tried to hide behind it, the court document stated.

Fairbanks then walked back into the bar through the front door possessing a shotgun, police were told. That door was apparently not locked. He held the shotgun in an upright position and started saying “tick-tock” multiple times as he allegedly pointed it at the person behind the table, the affidavit stated. “Fairbanks (then) said that he had slugs that would blow right through the table,” the court document stated. Upon troopers arriving on the scene about 12:10 a.m., Fairbanks, whose address on the criminal complaint was the same as the bar’s, dropped the shotgun and walked outside. He was immediately taken into custody. Police recovered the shotgun, which was empty, the affidavit stated.

Fairbanks was charged with terroristic threats, possession of an instrument of crime, simple assault, DUI, public drunkenness, disorderly conduct, harassment and criminal mischief. Following his arraignment before District Judge William Solomon, he was placed in the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail.