Arriving on the scene of a reported disturbance in the 700 block of West Edwin Street about 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 24, city police officers heard Zachary Allen Rishel yelling obscenities and noticed his “knuckles were bloody” and he was bleeding as well from a scrape on his right elbow, according to an affidavit. It is alleged that he had terrorized two women, both neighbors, by pounding on their doors on West Edwin Street, police said. He told one woman that he was going to kill her mother, police alleged.

One woman, fearing for her life, was on the telephone with a 911 dispatcher and gripping a baseball bat as she heard Rishel pounding on her door, police said. Both women are victims in another criminal case in which Rishel, 25, of 912 Clark St., is the defendant, police said. The affidavit stated that Rishel trespassed on the same properties on Oct. 15. He pounded so hard on one of the doors that he “left it dented and covered in blood from his knuckles,” the affidavit stated.

When an offer told him he was under arrest, Rishel, who was intoxicated, ignored him and staggered out a doorway to the street, where the officer promptly took him to the ground and placed him in a cruiser. Following his arraignment two hours later before District Judge Denise Dieter on charges of terroristic threats, intimidation of a witness, defiant trespassing, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness, Rishel was committed to the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $20,000 bail.