Two boys on their bikes on a Saturday afternoon coming from McDonalds riding through a Falls Township shopping center had to be scared out of their minds when a man they crossed paths with pulled a knife threatening to stab them.
The terrorizing scene played last weekend in the parking lot of the Fairless Hills shopping center parking lot; the two boys told police.
Officers were dispatched by 911 to the Giant supermarket for a report of a middle-aged armed man wearing all black threatening two minors at approximately 1:30 p.m. Saturday, September 28.
The boys told responding officers they were just riding by when a man started to yell and scream at them for no apparent reason calling the boys names. The suspect pulled out a pocketknife moving towards the boys threatening to knife both of them. He brandished the weapon for both boys to see it in his hand with the blade facing up. The boys fled on their bikes seeking help at Giant and moments later the suspect picked up his bike and walked away, according to court records.
Falls Twp Police on patrol in the area recognized a man on Haskall Road, about a half mile away from the shopping center, by the name of Keith Binney, 58 of Levittown, from a similar incident in *March of this year. Binney was detained by officers at that location and was found to be in possession of two pocketknives, officers wrote in the probable cause, one of which was red with a silver blade.
One of the two minor boys was transported to the Haskall Rd location where he positively identified Binney to police as the man who threatened to stab him and his friend with a knife.
According to a criminal complaint filed by Falls Twp Police on March 1 Binney threatened to stab five juveniles who were waiting for a school bus on the 3000 block of Clayton Drive in the Pennwood Crossing mobile home park. Police located Binney at a nearby Wawa, arrested and jailed him a short time later. Police in court records said Binney had a small metal container holding crystallized rocks believed to be methamphetamine and a glass pipe with black residue with and a silver knife. The case remains active, county records show, with a November 19 court date at the Justice Center in Doylestown.
He was arraigned on the new charges of terroristic threats, simple assault and related offenses by on-call Judge Mark D. Douple. Binney was remanded to Bucks County Correctional Facility because he was unable to post the 10 percent of $25,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear at Falls Twp District Court on October 23 to answer to these charges.