A Bloomfield man has been charged with intimidation, accused of threatening harm to an ex-girlfriend and other individuals on New Year’s Day.

Robert Aldrin Reed, 49, Bloomfield, was arrested by Lt. Marvin Holt of the Bloomfield Police Department on New Year’s Day after Lt. Holt investigated a complaint about threats being made.

Lt. Holt was dispatched around 8:45 p.m. that Tuesday, January 1, to a residence on West Spring Street about threats that were being made via text messages to a woman’s cell phone by an ex-boyfriend, Robert Reed.

On his way there, Holt was advised by dispatch that Reed was sitting in a white Chevrolet truck near the residence while sending text messages threatening to kill multiple people including his ex-girlfriend.

Holt parked behind Reed, approached the truck and asked Reed why he was sitting outside the residence. Reed reportedly said he was waiting on a man who was a friend to his ex-girlfriend.

Holt said Reed was not found to be in possession of any weapons.

Holt reported that when Reed was asked about the messages, Reed told him he sent them out of anger but didn’t mean them and said he wanted to talk to the man, who he was upset with.

When Lt. Holt talked to the ex-girlfriend, the woman showed him several text messages she’d received from Reed’s phone threatening harm. In a probable cause affidavit prepared by Holt, he described one message that said, “I’ll burn that m----------- down, get him over here I got something for him, gone shoot him, he f----- --- -- -- --- ---- ---, he is dead, I’ll kill everyone.”

Reed was arrested, transported to the Greene County Jail and booked in around 9:52 p.m. His bond was set at $4,000 surety with ten percent cash allowed. He posted $400 cash to bond out, was released on January 2 and given a court date of Monday, January 7.

When Reed appeared for his initial hearing, he was formally charged with intimidation where the threat is to commit a forcible felony, a Level 6 felony.