A Nesquehoning man is charged with threatening to kill three people.

On June 28, Nesquehoning police officer Richard Neikam received a call that Howard B. McLaughlin, 41, of Laurel Street, had contacted the victim’s boyfriend and threatened to kill him. The caller also said that McLaughlin was just taken to the emergency room by police for a mental health evaluation.

Earlier that day police Chief Sean Smith was at McLaughlin’s residence where a fight had broken out between McLaughlin and the caller’s boyfriend.

The couple told police that McLaughlin called and threatened to kill him and his girlfriend and her son.

McLaughlin was found a little while later walking along Route 54 and denied threatening anyone.

He later admitted calling the boyfriend after getting out of the emergency room but didn’t recall threatening to kill him.

McLaughlin is charged with terroristic threats.