A local man with a long history of belligerent behavior and public intoxication arrests got into serious trouble as he had to be tazed by Bucks County Park Police after an incident at the Bucks County Library in the Levittown section of Bristol Township.
A county employee of the Bucks County Library reported on Thursday, November 6, 2026, at approximately 5:04 p.m. there was unwanted subject who was shouting and would not leave the premises.
Bucks County Park Police responded to the library located in the complex which contains the Lower Bucks Government Campus. The officer spoke with the complainant who advised that the male had been banging on the door and throwing things at the door and had been told to leave.
Police walked to the side-corner of the library and observed a male, sleeping by the door, identified as Mark Kornstedt. Police subsequently confirmed there was a Sheriff’s warrant for Kornstedt’s arrest also.
The library employee identified for police the man sleeping by the door as the man who caused the disturbance.
Police approached Kornstedt and found him to be sleeping. The officer bent over to wake him up and noted a strong odor of alcoholic beverages. Kornstedt was told he was under arrest by two police officers They attempted to convince the defendant verbally to get up off the ground.
Kornstedt, according to police, resisted and refused to get up. Once he got up, he began to run away.
Shortly thereafter Kornstedt was taken to the ground, and police 0attempted to handcuff him. Kornstedt immediately began resisting on the ground by not listening to multiple commands to put his hands behind his back and, again, he was told he was under arrest, police said in the probable ca
Kornstedt was warned he would be tasered if he continued to struggle with police.
Subsequently, Kornstedt was tased continued to struggle with police and resist their commands and was tased a total of four times before police were able to gain full control and handcuff him.
Once handcuffed, Emergency Medical Personnel were requested to treat a head injury, Kornsted suffered in the scuffle. He was transported to St Mary’s Medical Center for evaluation and treatment.
Police rode with Kornsted in the ambulance to St Mary’s. During the ride, he allegedly threatened the officer’s life by saying twice “you are a dead man, bro,” according to court papers.
While at St. Mary’s hospital emergency room, staff were attempting to place the defendant in a four-point restraints when he kicked a registered nurse in the forehead with his right foot, while the nurse was attempting to treat him, police said in court papers.
A search of Kornsted at the at the emergency room located a red metal cigarette holder that contained a plastic bag with an unknown residue. This bag is suspected to be drug paraphernalia, police said.
Kornsted was arraigned on charges of aggravated assault, multiple counts of resisting arrest, terroristic threats, and related offenses. He was remanded to the custody of Bucks County Jail with bail set at 10 percent of $250,000.00 and is due back in court on December 8. He has no attorney of record, listed currently according to online court records.