A man has been charged with two counts of making a bomb threats and threatening to kill a police officer following an incident in Tiptree on Saturday morning.
Paul Clarke, 38, an unemployed man from Chestnut Way in Tiptree, was arrested just after 8am on Saturday (January 10) by armed police officers.
Officers were called to the Shell Tiptree Service Station in Maypole Road at just after 7am after reports that a man at the location was making threats to staff and members of the public.
He was in possession of a number of bladed weapons and damage was caused to the pumps on the petrol station forecourt.
Minutes later officers received a call from a member of the public in nearby Kings Court to say a man had smashed a silver Ford Focus car, threatening the woman inside.
No one was injured and the four cordons put in place by police officers investigating the incident were lifted later that day.
He was charged on Sunday (January 11) and has been remanded to appear before magistrates in Colchester on Monday (January 12).
Clarke has also been charged with criminal damage, possession of a bladed article in a public place and two counts of affray.
