Sep 23, 2015 1 min read

WAYNESBURG – A Nemacolin man who pleaded guilty to threatening a Cumberland Township police officer and the police chief earlier this year was sentenced Monday by Greene County President Judge Farley Toothman to 16 to 59 months in jail.

Robert William Treece, 44, pleaded guilty to harassment and terroristic threat on May 12.

Treece called the Cumberland Township Police Department Jan. 3 and threatened to assault the office and chief, whom he claimed had put him in jail and taken him away from his children. He told the officer that after he assaulted him he would commit suicide so police “could not win,” the criminal complaint said.

Treece was fined $500 and was granted work-release privileges.