HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation employee is facing charges after authorities say he left a disturbing note on the desk of his supervisor.
David Alan Case Jr., 53, was charged after an investigation of the letter, which was found at PennDOT's Riverfront Office Center in Harrisburg on April 30, according to charging documents filed by Capitol Police.
Case is charged with four counts of terroristic threats, one count of institutional vandalism, four counts of harassment (threatening language), four counts of summary harassment, and one count of criminal mischief.
According to police, the letter was discovered in a cabinet in a cubicle at the office. It was directed at multiple employees at the office.
Investigators spoke to one of the employees referred to in the letter, and learned she recently had to discipline Case for a clerical error he had made.
The employee who found the letter also told police she had to discipline Case over the errors "but he seemed to take it OK," police said in the criminal complaint.
Investigators took handwriting samples from Case and other persons of interest in the investigation to compare to the handwriting on the letter.
On July 9, police spoke to Case, who denied having any issues with his managers or supervisors.
When told by police that his handwriting sample was the closest match to the handwriting in the letter, he denied writing it, according to the complaint.
On Wednesday, investigators received a more detailed handwriting analysis from the Pennsylvania State Police Forensics Lab, which determined the handwriting on the letter matched the sample provided by Case.
Police filed a criminal complaint against him and took him into custody.
He was arraigned on the charges and remanded to Dauphin County Prison after failing to post bail of $50,000.
A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for November 26.
