A Centre Hall man apprehended last winter after police said he fled the area to avoid stalking and assault charges is now accused of victim intimidation.
Michael A. Lloyd, 43, made a jailhouse phone call in which he told another person to persuade the woman he’s accused of stalking to drop the charges against him, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by State College police.
Lloyd was charged in November and December for multiple incidents in which he “harassed, threatened, terrorized and repeatedly contacted” the woman, including one where he attempted to run the woman off the road, police wrote. When he learned he was going to be arrested, he fled to Florida, according to the affidavit, where he was apprehended in December and extradited back to Centre County.
He has been jailed at the Centre County Correctional Facility since Dec. 23.
The woman was contacted by another person who said Lloyd called her from the jail in April and told her “they want to give him 13 years and the only way he can get out of it” would be if the woman dropped a protective order against him, according to the affidavit. He allegedly said that he would give the woman money from the sale of his truck, and that “he will leave everybody alone and will move to Florida…”
A review of Lloyd’s calls from the jail confirmed the account, according to the affidavit. Police also allegedly found another call from the same day to a person in Florida who Lloyd asked to tell the woman to drop the charges against him.
Lloyd was charged on Friday with felony counts of intimidating a witness or victim to withhold testimony, conspiracy to intimidate a witness or victim and criminal use of a communication facility, and misdemeanor counts of obstructing the administration of law and attempted obstruction.
He was arraigned by District Judge Don Hahn and bail for those charges was set at $55,000. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 30.
Lloyd remains incarcerated at the Centre County Correctional Facility. He was previously arraigned in December on multiple misdemeanor counts of stalking, simple assault, reckless endangerment and flight to avoid apprehension, as well as contempt for violation of an order, and was unable to post $50,000 bail.
